Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant or Clinical Nurse Specialist– General GI & Advanced Endoscopy I

                    

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Job Title

Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant or Clinical Nurse Specialist– General GI & Advanced Endoscopy I

                        

Location

Cleveland

                    

Facility

Cleveland Clinic Main Campus

                     

Department

DDSI/Gastroenterology-Digestive Disease Institute

                      

Job Code

T98100

                     

Shift

Days

                       

Schedule

8:00am-5:00pm

                       

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. Practice emphasizes health promotion, disease prevention and the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic health problems.

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 the Hospital care role provide outpatient and/or hospital based care to patients (more than 50% of their time) with complex, acute, and chronic health conditions. Outpatient/Hospital care PA's practice in a setting that requires the performance of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions to manage acute and chronic health problems. Must have the ability to work with multi-disciplinary teams.

                         

Job Details

Cleveland Clinic’s Digestive Disease Institute, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition is currently seeking a candidate for a new position working in Advanced Endoscopy and General GI at the Main Campus. The chosen candidate will be responsible for seeing both new and established patients in clinic with common diagnosis including: acute and chronic pancreatitis, pancreatic masses (benign and malignant), exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, biliary tree abnormalities including obstructions/strictures/stones/cancers, esophageal cancer, Barrett’s esophagus, GERD, gastrointestinal bleeding/obscure anemia, abdominal pain, esophageal strictures, esophageal motility disorders, Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis, strictures and obstructions of the GI tract, gastrointestinal tract malignancies and patients with abnormal diagnostic testing of the GI tract. If there is not enough need for Advanced Endoscopy patients to fill the APP’s schedule they will supplement with General GI patients. A small portion of the APP’s time each week will be dedicated to projects within the section.  The hours for the position will typically be Mon-Fri 8-5 without requirement for nights, weekends, holidays or call. There may be times when the provider needs to arrive early or stay late to complete job responsibilities, attend meetings, participate in educational activities, etc… The ideal candidate will be self-directed, highly motivated to build a strong fund of knowledge, organized, flexible and possess the ability to work collaboratively across multiple disciplines.

Responsibilities:

• 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 priv