Breast Surgery - Specialty Outpatient - Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant - Piedmont Fayette Hospital

Overview

Piedmont Fayette - Advanced Practice Provider – Outpatient – Breast Health

Piedmont Healthcare is recruiting for a Nurse Practitioner to join the High-Risk Breast team in Fayetteville, Georgia. This is a full-time, Monday-Friday position in the outpatient setting. The High-Risk Breast program is new offering to our community and will be unique for the Piedmont system and the Fayetteville market. The program structure is based on the nationally recognized model as outlined by the National Consortium of Breast Centers and will focus on preventative care and surveillance for people identified as high risk for breast cancer at the time of the screening mammography.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

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• Takes patient histories, conducts physical examinations, writes progress notes, prepares patient workups and summaries noting findings, obtains psychosocial history relevant to patient care, and assumes responsibility for developing therapeutic relationships with patients.
• Provides high-risk patient education, risk reduction recommendations, lifestyle modification counseling, and develops personalized cancer screening and management plan.
• Orders and schedules laboratory studies, imaging, diagnostic procedures, and makes appropriate referrals.
• Explains necessity, preparation, nature, and anticipated effects of scheduled diagnostic and therapeutic procedure(s) to the patient, patient’s family, and staff.
• Monitors progress of patients, reports progress to supervising physician, and maintains record of each patient’s progress, consulting with supervising physician when patient’s progress does not meet anticipated and/or predetermined criteria.
• Participate in the initial development, launch, and ongoing improvement of the new High-Risk Breast program for Piedmont Fayette

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

Qualified candidates will have at least one-year of experience working as a Nurse Practitioner in Women’s Health and/or Oncology setting.

NP: Graduate from a school of nursing with current Georgia license for Advanced Practice Nursing and a Master’s degree in Nursing

Business Unit : Company Name Piedmont Medical Care Corporation