About the Role
Advance Practice Providers (APPs) will join the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition to assist with IP GI Consult Service coverage at East Region Hospitals. APPs will manage a wide variety of GI conditions and diagnoses. The ideal candidate is self-motivated, comfortable working with autonomy, functions well within a multi-disciplinary team, and is flexible. This role involves 4-10 hour shifts (7 AM-5 PM) with rotating holiday and weekend coverage.
Responsibilities
- Conducts thorough medical histories and performs physical examinations.
- Initiates appropriate lab, radiology, and other diagnostic tests.
- Scrutinizes lab data to establish patient health status and develop diagnoses and treatment plans.
- Performs and interprets common laboratory, radiologic, and cardiographic procedures.
- Performs routine and specialized procedures as credentialed.
- May prescribe and monitor medications as allowed by license and policy.
- Educates patients on diseases, treatments, and potential side effects.
- Participates in medical team rounds and collaborates with healthcare team members.
- Refers patients to specialists for consultation or specialized treatment.
- Ensures continuity of care by serving as a liaison between patients and the care team.
- Participates in quality monitoring through record review and treatment plan analysis.
- Facilitates appropriate length of stay, discharge planning, and compliance with regulatory standards.
- Supports professional development of the healthcare team.
- Promotes translation of evidence-based practices, guidelines, and research.
- May conduct research studies, assist in data collection and analysis.
- May serve as a clinical preceptor for students and onboard new caregivers.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Oral and written communication in English.
- Excellent analytical and decision-making skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Demonstrated competency in advanced assessment and diagnosis.
- Demonstrated ability to utilize the electronic medical record.
- Demonstrates a high standard of moral and ethical behavior.
- Demonstrates compassion, professionalism, and commitment to excellent patient care.
- Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment, and the ability to work independently.
- Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.
- Related clinical experience preferred.
- Ability to walk and stand for long periods.
- Manual and finger dexterity and eye/hand coordination.
- Requires corrected vision and hearing to a normal range.
- Occasionally lifts and carries items weighing up to 50 pounds.
- May require exposure to communicable diseases and/or body fluids.
- Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.
- Must obtain an annual influenza vaccination or obtain an approved exemption.
Skills
- Advanced assessment
- Diagnosis
- Electronic medical record utilization
- Critical thinking
- Decisive judgment
- Independent work
- Stress management
Location
- Garfield Hts
Work Type
- Full-time
- Days
Experience Level
- New graduates welcome
- Prior relatable experience considered
Education Level
- MSN required upon hire or within 3 years for external/internal hires moving from non-APRN to APRN role (effective 05/01/2014).
- Graduate of an accredited APRN program.
- Master’s Degree required upon hire for neonatal care service area.
- Graduate of an A.R.C. approved Physician Assistant Program.
- Master’s degree in Physician Assistant Studies and/or higher degree obtained from a program recognized by their practicing states Licensing Board.
About the Company
- At Cleveland Clinic Health System, we believe in a better future for healthcare.
- We are responsible for honoring our commitment to excellence, pushing boundaries, and transforming the patient experience.
- We all have the power to help, heal, and change lives — beginning with our own.
- This is the power of the Cleveland Clinic Health System team, and The Power of Every One.
Equal Opportunity
- The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment.
- All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.
- Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law.
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- Please review the Equal Employment Opportunity poster.
- Cleveland Clinic is pleased to be an equal employment opportunity employer.
