AddressProvide high quality health care to Kaiser Permanente members in a cost-effective manner and in accordance with accepted professional practice standards.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Must have flexibility to provide follow up care for oncology patients in both acute and ambulatory patient settings.
- Assess and diagnose oncology patients, and formulate and implement treatment plans, addressing complex medical conditions.
- Admit and discharge inpatients, write all needed orders and complete discharge summary within electronic health record during hospital rotation.
- Round on inpatient oncology patients Monday through Friday, although may share weekend rounding in the future.
- Document follow-up notes, monitor chemotherapy infusion, identify and treat adverse reactions and effects of therapy.
- Provide pre and post procedure education, including comprehensive discussions of complex diagnostic and treatment options.
- Perform exams and provide f/u care; order diagnostic studies and medications, schedule procedures, and provide follow-up.
- Flexibility for independently seeing outpatients in clinic and returns (complete management) for specific oncology diseases and/or conditions to be determined by department chief.
- Requires flexibility for urgent, unscheduled backup to oncologists for both inpatients and outpatients.
- May require flexibility to drive from one site to another during the course of a business day.
- Independently perform bone marrow aspirations, and other procedures as determined.
- Performs other duties as requested.
- The above care must be documented in writing in patients permanent medical record in accordance with accepted medical/legal standards.
- All medical care must be provided in accordance with accepted practice standards, hospital/clinic protocols (including supervision by a physician) and State licensing.
