Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant or Clinical Nurse Specialist– Inpatient Gastroenterology/Hepatology II

                    

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Job Title

Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant or Clinical Nurse Specialist– Inpatient Gastroenterology/Hepatology II

                        

Location

Cleveland

                    

Facility

Cleveland Clinic Main Campus

                     

Department

DDSI/Gastroenterology-Digestive Disease Institute

                      

Job Code

T97897

                     

Shift

Days

                       

Schedule

7:00am-5:30pm

                       

Job Summary

APRN: Nationally certified licensed healthcare provider who provides primary and/or specialty nursing and/or medical care in a variety of healthcare settings. Functions in collaboration with a physician according to a standard care arrangement and specialty certification. Provides advanced nursing care to patients with complex acute, critical, and chronic health conditions, including the delivery of acute care services.
PA: Nationally certified licensed healthcare provider who provides primary and or specialty medical care (the practice of medicine) in a variety of healthcare settings. Functions the collaboration agreement of a Physician, (as per O.R.C. 4730) performs complete histories and physicals on patients of all ages to establish and record patient's current health status and to develop a working diagnosis and treatment plan to provide continuing medical care, including daily examinations, writing orders, chart notes, discharging patients and completing discharge summaries. This medical care may be in a variety of clinical settings. PA's are privileged by the Board of Governors. PA's in this role provide advanced care to patients with in any setting in which patients require complex, acute, critical and chronic health conditions. Practice in a setting that requires complex monitoring and therapies and high intensity medical/surgical interventions and/or continuous vigilance within the range of high-acuity care.

                         

Job Details

Cleveland Clinic’s Digestive Disease Institute is currently seeking a qualified Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner (Adult or Acute Certified) for a full time position in Gastroenterology and Hepatology. This provider will collaborate with consultants and the multi-disciplinary medical team to provide care for the inpatient Adult Gastroenterology and Hepatology patients. Some typical duties include (but are not limited to): rounding on admitted primary team and consult patients on the regular nursing floor and ICUs, writing notes, collaborating on POC with supervising MD, admitting/discharging patients, patient and family education, paracentesis, suturing, rectal exams, assisting PRN team mates and training new hire PRN’s. There is potential for outpatient clinic duties as well. There will be opportunities for a variety of shifts and roles based on business needs. Weekends and holidays are required. Candidates must be flexible team players and willing to float to regional sites as staffing needs and patient volumes dictate. Experienced APP with GI/Hepatology experience preferred, but open to new graduates as well.

Responsibilities:

• T 10-hour shifts per week, with holidays and weekends required from 7:00AM-5:30PM.
• Conducts thorough medical histories, performs complete physical examinations (where indicated), initiates appropriate lab, radiology tests or other special tests required for evaluation of illness, and scrutinizes lab data on new and former clinic patients and hospital admissions to establish a record of the patient's current health status and to develop a working diagnosis and treatment plan.
• Must be able to work with collaborating physician.

• Performs and interprets, at least to the point of recognizing deviations from normal, common laboratory, radiologic, cardiographic and other routine diagnostic procedures used to identify pathophysiologic processes as privileged by CCF Credentialing Board.
• Performs routine procedures such as injections, immunotherapy, suturing and wound care, managing simple conditions produced by infection or trauma, assisting in the management of more complex illness and injury which may include assisting surgeons in conducting operations and taking init