The Hematology/Oncology APP functions as an independent healthcare provider who, working collaboratively within a physician led health team and is responsible for providing comprehensive care to both well and ill patients. He/she demonstrates a high degree of clinical expertise in working with patients with acute and chronic illnesses, specifically blood disorders, blood cancers, and solid tumor cancers along with cancer patients in active treatment. He/she is responsible for assessment, diagnosis, treatment, management, education, health promotion and care coordination for patients and families. The APP demonstrates an advanced level of medical/nursing clinical knowledge, communication and interdisciplinary collaboration, professionalism, and systems-based practice. He/she works with administration, nursing, and our physicians, to assure safe, effective, quality-driven patient care and to promote educational and research missions.
Hematology/Oncology APP is dedicated to assisting patients and their families as they cope with various forms of cancer. The Hematology/Oncology APP is trained to manage the physical and psychological needs of the oncology patient and his or her family. They will provide primary, acute or tertiary care in a variety of medical settings including but not limited to private practice, hospitals, cancer care centers, and palliative care centers. They may also work collaboratively with educational programs on cancer prevention and similar topics.