Advanced Practice Provider (APRN/PA) - Radiation Oncology (Head & Neck)

REQUIREMENTS

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse 
Education Required    Master's Degree in Nursing or Doctor of Nursing Practice.  May be waived for applicants who obtained recognition as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse from the Texas State Board of Nursing prior to 1/1/2003.  Graduate education and related Texas Board of Nursing authorization must be consistent with clinical practice area and patient population.

Education Preferred    None.
    
Experience Required    None.
Experience Preferred    None.
    
Licensure/Certification Required    All of the following:
Written authorization from the Texas Board of Nursing to function as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse. Basic Life Support (BLS) or Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification. Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) If working in the following departments: Pediatric - Patient Care (113100).

MAY BE REQUIRED:  Authorization for limited prescriptive authority by the Texas Board of Nursing.
Licensure/Certification Preferred    American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS),  ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) or PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support) certification as required by patient care area.
    
 

REQUIREMENTS

Physician Assistant 

Education Required    Master’s degree from an accredited Physician Assistant (PA) program by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA), except for Physician Assistants who graduated from a PA program prior to 2013.  
Education Preferred    None.
    
Experience Required    None.

Experience Preferred    None.
    
Licensure/Certification Required    All of the following:
PA certification by the National Commission of Certification of Physician Assistants.
Licensed by the Texas State Board of Physician Assistant Examiners.

MAY BE REQUIRED:  Eligible to be granted limited prescriptive authority by the State of Texas.
Must meet  the American Heart Association  Basic Life Support (BLS) , ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) or PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support) if working in one of following department: Pediatrics - Patient Care (113100).
Licensure/Certification Preferred    None
 

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