Physician Assistant - Inpatient Surgical Oncology

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

Are you a skilled and motivated Physician Assistant looking to make a real impact in surgical oncology?  We are looking for dedicated and compassionate Physician Assistants to join our high-performing inpatient team, delivering exceptional patient care to patients undergoing complex cancer treatments and surgeries.  You will work side by side with top physicians across two surgical teams consisting of gynecologic oncology, urology, and surgical oncology, plastics, GI, and breast oncology.

In this role, you’ll be an essential part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary team, managing patients through pre- and post-operative care in the inpatient setting. You will have the opportunity to exercise both independent judgement and team-based decision making, contributing to every stage of the surgical care process. 

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Assess the health status of the patient in order to develop an individualized plan of care by collecting, categorizing, and interpreting data (physical and psychosocial) from documented information, observation, patient/family interview and other health care team members.
• Assess the patient including nursing diagnosis, patient goals and nursing interventions necessary to achieve goals of care.
• Will function as a RNFA in the OR to multiple specialties and work with multiple surgeons.
• Implement nursing care to provide optimal individualized patient outcome.
• Rounding on inpatient floors and in the PACU on occasion.
• Instruct the patient and family to assist the patient in the achievement of optimal health status.
• Document nursing activities to provide a permanent record, for continuity of care, quality improvement and professional accountability.
• Identify the patient to ensure the patient, procedure and operative site correspond.
• Plan, supervise and assist with the transfer of the patient to protect the patient and personnel from injury. 
• Position the patient to provide access to the operative site while maximizing patient safety and comfort.
• Establish and maintain a surgically clean environment to reduce the potential for infection by applying the principles of the potential for infection by applying the principles of antisepsis, decontamination, disinfection, sanitation, sterilization, and environmental monitoring.
• Establish and maintain a safe environment to protect the patient and the health care team by monitoring the patient (physiologically and psychologically) and the environment and by implementing safety procedures.
• Establish and maintain a sterile field to reduce potential for infection by teaching and supervising the application of principles of aseptic technique and continual monitoring of the sterile filed.
• Coordinate support services need during surgery by anticipating and communicating patient and surgical team needs.
• Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.

Your qualifications should include:

• Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant program.
• Master’s degree
• Three years as a Physician Assistant is preferred.
• Unrestricted, Current Physician Assistant license
• Certified California Physician Assistant license
• Current DEA license required.
• Current BLS certification from American Heart Association
• Current ACLS certification from American Heart Association
• Salary - $119,000 - $213,000

City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location. City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.