Nurse Practitioner (Oncology)

Affiliated Office Address

Baltimore, MD, United States

Requisition ID

122872

Date Created

October 23, 2026

Job Function

Nursing

Exempt Status

Exempt

Shift Type

Full Time

Schedule

Mon - Fri / 8a - 4:30p

Worksite

04-MD:School of Medicine Campus

Work Modality

On-site: 90-100% of hours worked on-site

We are seeking a Nurse Practitioner to provide inpatient clinical and research support to the Hematologic Malignancies Division. Works collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary health team and is responsible for providing comprehensive and age-appropriate care to both well and ill patients. Educates patients and families and intervenes in acute or chronic illness.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

Patient Care

• Provides comprehensive, age appropriate, and episodic care to patients as a member of the multi-disciplinary health care team.
• Obtains patient history; Performs patientcare and physical examinations; Prepares patient summaries.
• Develops care/treatment plan; Attends out-patient clinics and assists with patient management. Develops care/treatment plan.
• Provides information to staff regarding patient's care plan and condition.
• Consistently develops effective care/treatment plan for assigned patients according to established protocols and procedures. Regularly confers and consults with appropriate supervisory physician and/or other pertinent professionals before implementing treatment plan.
• Consistently structures all patient care plans to meet educational, physical and social needs appropriate to the patient's age. Consistently provides relevant patient care information to the appropriate staff member according to department guidelines.
• Follows daily progress of post-transplant patients in the immediate transplant phase, including history and physical exam, ordering, performing, and interpreting laboratory and radiological data and establishing and implementing a plan of care based on those interpretations and observations. Makes referrals to appropriate specialties.
• Follows long term progress of transplant patients including history and physical examination, orders and interprets re-staging tests, and assesses status.
• Observes for evidence of long-term effects of transplantation including infection, toxicity, engraftment, Graft-Versus-Host Disease. Provides education to patient and family members regarding diagnosis, complications, treatment and medications in order to provide them with continuous information.

Procedures

• Routine laboratory procedures such as cultures, smears, venipuncture, electrocardiograms.
• Performs advanced procedures such as bone marrow aspiration and biopsy, skin biopsy, lumbar puncture, and other procedures as necessary, including paracentesis and thoracentesis.

Provides Emergency Care

• Starts and provides basic CPR.
• Orders and administers anti-anaphylactic and supportive medications.

Research Coordination

• Will work with specific protocols to ensure that all protocol driven tests, examinations, and procedures are ordered, performed and evaluated and data is retrieved, entered on appropriate forms.
• Coordinates scheduling, orders appropriate tests, evaluates results, records data, performs patient evaluations and participates in care of patients on specific protocols regarding specific disease entities and treatment.
• Works in collaboration with the Principal Investigators of specific protocols to ensure the completeness of protocol requirements.

Educational Responsibilities

• Develops expertise and expands knowledge in specific areas and shares that knowledge and expertise with colleagues as consultant in planning care for patients. Participates in rounds and meetings for consultation.
• Supervises and evaluates student/patient interactions in an academic setting. Assumes responsibility for patient care as provided by the student.
• Performs oncology related procedures, such as bone marrow aspiration and biopsy, lumbar puncture, bone marrow harvest, and other procedures as called upon within the scope of practice.

Fiscal responsibility

• Assumes fiscal responsibility with working knowledge of evidence based medical model.
• Effectively uses resources of the patient and the institution.
• Is aware of and adheres to specific capitations and limitations of the patient's insurances while organizing and optimizing individualized care based on the disease state and restraints imposed by the HMO or insurances.
• Utilizes referrals to Home Health in order to provide optimum care in the appropriate setting.
• Has knowledge of and utilizes all available resources in the event that the patient's resources are limited or unavailable in order to provide medical care and social well-being.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Nursing; Registered Nurse license and Certified as a Nurse Practitioner.
• Must be licensed as NP in State of Maryland or other state where practicing.
• Current CPR certification required.
• Must maintain current licensure and certification during duration of employment. Completion of the JHH credentialing process is required prior to start date.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Classified Title

Nurse Practitioner

Role/Level/Range: ACRP/04/MG

Starting Salary Range: $112,572 - $152,900 Annually ($123,100 targeted; Commensurate w/exp.)

Employee group: Full Time

Schedule: Mon - Fri / 8a - 4:30p

FLSA Status: Exempt

Location: School of Medicine Campus

Department name: SOM Onc Hematologic Malignancies

Personnel area: School of Medicine

Total Rewards

The referenced base salary range represents the low and high end of Johns Hopkins University’s salary range for this position. Not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salary range. Exact salary will ultimately depend on multiple factors, which may include the successful candidate's geographic location, skills, work experience, market conditions, education/training and other qualifications.

Johns Hopkins offers a total rewards package that supports our employees' health, life, career and retirement. More information can be found here: https://hr.jhu.edu/benefits-worklife/.

Education and Experience Equivalency

Please refer to the job description above to see which forms of equivalency are permitted for this position.

If permitted, equivalencies will follow these guidelines

JHU Equivalency Formula: 30 undergraduate degree credits (semester hours) or 18 graduate degree credits may substitute for one year of experience. Additional related experience may substitute for required education on the same basis. For jobs where equivalency is permitted, up to two years of non-related college course work may be applied towards the total minimum education/experience required for the respective job.

Applicants Completing Studies

Applicants who do not meet the posted requirements but are completing their final academic semester/quarter will be considered eligible for employment and may be asked to provide additional information confirming their academic completion date.

Background Checks

The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check. Johns Hopkins is committed to hiring individuals with a justice-involved background, consistent with applicable policies and current practice. A prior criminal history does not automatically preclude candidates from employment at Johns Hopkins University.

In accordance with applicable law, the university will review, on an individual basis, the date of a candidate's conviction, the nature of the conviction and how the conviction relates to an essential job-related qualification or function.

Diversity and Inclusion

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Vaccine Requirements

Johns Hopkins University requires all faculty, staff, and students to receive the seasonal flu vaccine. Exceptions to the flu vaccine requirements may be provided to individuals for religious beliefs or medical reasons. Requests for an exception must be submitted to the JHU vaccination registry.

The following additional provisions may apply, depending upon campus. Your recruiter will advise accordingly.

The pre-employment physical for positions in clinical areas, laboratories, working with research subjects, or involving community contact requires documentation of immune status against Rubella (German measles), Rubeola (Measles), Mumps, Varicella (chickenpox), Hepatitis B and documentation of having received the Tdap (Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) vaccination.

This may include documentation of having two (2) MMR vaccines; two (2) Varicella vaccines; or antibody status to these diseases from laboratory testing. Blood tests for immunities to these diseases are ordinarily included in the pre-employment physical exam except for those employees who provide results of blood tests or immunization documentation from their own health care providers.

Any vaccinations required for these diseases will be given at no cost in our Occupational Health office.