Qualifications include:

Schedule:

2 days per week in Baldwin, WI.

Duties include:

This role works in collaboration with physicians and other medical staff to provide services to patients and their families. They are engaged in independent decision-making about health care needs and provides health care services to individuals and their families. Performs a comprehensive history, including chart review and information gathered from the family and performs physical and psychological health assessments. This role will also assist in the development of a cancer survivorship program and serve as the primary clinical provider in the survivorship clinic.

• Assess health status for specific patient populations using advanced practice knowledge and skills
  • Performs clinical examinations and consultations with cancer patients and cancer survivors seeking care. Include generation of cancer treatment history for cancer survivors.
  • Obtains relevant health and medical history
  • Performs a physical examination based upon age and medical history
  • Orders and interprets necessary procedures and diagnostic tests
  • Identifies physiological and psychological conditions
  • Identifies patients’ symptoms and goals and serves as an advocate with the health care providers
  • Synthesizes information from the history, physical and diagnostic tests to develop, document and implement a Treatment Plan or Survivorship Plan
    • Establishes a practice agreement with the collaborating physician
    • Collaborates with the patient’s primary physician in a consultative role
    • Collaborates with all of the patient’s physicians and other health care team members in developing realistic treatment/survivorship goals
    • Develops a problem list based upon physiological and psychological disorders
    • Develops and implements a treatment/survivorship plan
    • Communicates effectively with patients and families for understanding of diagnosis, prognosis and plan
    • Determines the effectiveness of the treatment/survivorship plan and documents patient care outcomes
    • Revises and modifies the treatment/survivorship plan to meet the patient’s goals
    • Knowledge of pharmacology principles. Prescribes pharmacological (including controlled substances) and non-pharmacological (including controlled substances) and non-pharmacological agents
  • Develops and Promotes Survivorship Program to patients, families, community, and other health care professionals
    • Assists with writing, identifying, and implementing program eligibility guidelines, evident based protocols, standardized procedures and patient questionnaires
    • Develops relationships with other specialties that can assist with the management of cancer survivor problems
    • Provides education to patients, families or caregivers as needed
    • Provides continuing education to community and other professional groups as requested
  • Collaborates and coordinates with other health professionals
    • Makes and accepts referrals to//from, consults with, cooperates with and refers to all other types of healthcare providers, including primary and specialty care physicians, nurse practitioners and other allied personnel
    • Discriminates between situation requiring independent management, collaborative management with physician and further referral
    • Collaborates with physician when unusual incidents or changes in patient’s condition occur
    • Coordinates care involving other healthcare providers
    • Functions as mentor/resource and educator for other healthcare team and staff

Additional Information:

Westfields Hospital & Clinic is part of HealthPartners, the largest consumer-governed, non-profit health care organization in the nation with a mission to improve health and well-being in partnership with members, patients and the community. Located just 30 minutes east of the Twin Cities in the beautiful St. Croix Valley, Westfields is an award-winner hospital serving western Wisconsin with primary, acute, emergency and outpatient health care services. Our campus is in New Richmond, where you’ll find a comfortable small-town feel, just a stone’s throw away from Minneapolis and St. Paul.