This position will provide care to bone marrow transplant, gene and cellular therapy patients in the adult CW BMT/Leukemia clinic
Provide care and direct management of adult patients under a collaborative agreement with BMT physicians and participation with the multidisciplinary team
Monitoring of patients receiving chemotherapy
Donor evaluation visits
Post-transplant care through survivorship
Direct care and management of patients in the outpatient setting including: performing history and physical, evaluation, development of different diagnoses, collaborating with the physician to develop a plan of care, identification of individuals eligible for clinical trials, patient and family education, counseling and support, collaboration and referral to other services and provision of education to nursing staff, students and community providers.
Management of treatment related toxicities
Ability to recognize and appropriately treat: sepsis, chemotherapy toxicities; graft versus host disease (GVHD), cytokine release syndrome (CRS), immune effector cell-associated enterocolitis (IEC-EC), immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS), cardiac myopathies with arrhythmias, and profound cytopenias requiring daily transfusions.
Perform procedures such as bone marrow aspiration/biopsy
Review laboratory and radiographic tests results and interface with faculty and patients regarding results and plan of care.
Participate in clinical trial research through clinically assessing patients and consenting of patients for clinical trial participation as well as participating in clinical trials.
Facilitate transition of care and function as a liaison between the inpatient and outpatient settings and between staff to ensure continuity of care.
Participate in workshops and CME activities pertinent to BMT. Attendance at programmatic meetings at Michigan Medicine and occasionally attend regional or national meetings.