Full Job Description
Practice with us in Gilbert!
Arizona Centers for Digestive Health (AZCDH) is hiring an experienced Nurse Practitioner / Physician Assistant to join our team in Gilbert, AZ. With 6 locations throughout the Greater Phoenix area, AZCDH is the state’s leading provider for full-spectrum gastrointestinal care, serving more than 70,000 patients each year. We are passionate about helping our patients live quality lives through education, regular screenings, and empowerment.
Opportunity Highlights
- Compensation is commensurate with experience
- Comprehensive benefit package
- Medical, vision, dental, and life insurance
- Malpractice coverage provided
- Paid time off
- Annual CME allowance
- Position will include responsibilities at both Banner Desert Medical Center and in the AZCDH clinic.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Treat digestive diseases through comprehensive history taking, physical exams, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests.
- Diagnose, treat, evaluate, and manage acute and chronic illness and disease.
- Obtain medical histories and conduct physical examinations.
- Make decisions regarding data gathering and appropriate management and treatment of patients being seen for the initial evaluation of a problem or the follow-up evaluation of a previously diagnosed and stabilized condition.
- Maintain accurate documentation in the patients’ medical records.
- Document symptom assessment; communicate with collaborating physician(s).
- Initiate requests for commonly performed laboratory studies and diagnostic tests.
- Prescribe medications for acute and chronic illnesses to the extent authorized by state regulations.
- Counsel and educate patients on health behaviors, self-care skills, and treatment options.
- Participate in medical staff and other meetings and committees, community awareness activities, and staff training.
- Report errors of commission/omission immediately. Function within the legal limits of the scope of the practice.
- Refer patients to health programs and community resources for health guidance and specialty clinics.
Qualifications
- Experience in Gastroenterology required.
- Maintain a current and valid Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant license in the State of Arizona.
- Maintain a current and valid federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) certificate to prescribe controlled substances.
- Clinically competent; possess and exercise the degree of learning, skill, and care ordinarily possessed and exercised by a member of the appropriate discipline in clinical practice.
- Must know limits and make appropriate referrals in situations beyond the practitioner’s ability, training, and education.
- Must be compassionate, conscientious, and meticulous, as well as possess excellent communication and leadership skills.
- Teamwork; Exhibit objectivity and openness to others’ views. Contributes to building a positive work environment.
- Must engage in Continuing Medical Education activities to maintain validity of certification and participate in available in-service programs.
Community Highlights
The Phoenix metro area consistently ranks as one of the top communities to live and raise a family. Phoenix offers a unique blend of an urban hub in an outdoors paradise. Live and work in here and you will see why our community is ranked among one of the best cities in the country.
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