Advanced Practice Provider – Gastroenterology

St. Charles Health System•Bend, OR

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

St. Charles Medical Group (SCMG) is seeking an Advanced Practice Provider (APP) for its Gastroenterology department. This role involves providing medical care to patients, including evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and documentation. APPs will also assist Gastroenterology MDs with inpatient consults and rounding. The position requires coordinating medical and ancillary services, monitoring patient care plans, and referring patients to other departments as needed. The APP will work primarily in an outpatient setting with adult and pediatric patients (generally 16 years and older), obtaining medical histories, performing physical evaluations, ordering and interpreting studies, and documenting preprocedural and preadmission histories and physicals, as well as discharge summaries. The role also includes recognizing and managing medical emergencies, interpreting diagnostic tests, supporting quality health measures, consulting with healthcare teams, completing clinical records, prescribing medications, and performing procedures within the scope of practice and Oregon law. Administrative duties include documenting in the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) for billing, participating in meetings, assisting with policy formation, and maintaining current medical knowledge, licenses, and certifications. Behavioral expectations include contributing to a healing environment, maintaining safety, professionalism, and confidentiality, providing excellent customer service, educating patients and families, and acting ethically and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.

Requirements

Successful completion of an approved Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner course of study and certification as appropriate to the incumbent’s license.
Complete annual fire/safety, etc. education in-services as required.
Attend mandatory educational offerings as described in SCHS policies/procedures and/or as required by other regulatory bodies.
Complete annual CME as required to maintain license and appropriate Board certification.
Complete in a timely manner assigned Computer Based Learning modules.
Unrestricted Physician Assistant and/or Nurse Practitioner licensure in the state of Oregon.
Physician Assistant requires NCCPA certification.
Nurse Practitioner requires AANC, NCC or AANP, AMCB certification.
If Physician Assistant, ability to establish and maintain a Practice Agreement with a Supervising Physician through OMB.
Unrestricted Federal DEA number registered in Oregon.
Unrestricted ability to participate in Medicare / Medicaid, or other federal or state governmental health care programs.
Valid driver’s license and the ability to meet SCHS driving requirements.
Current BLS certification required.
If provider will practice sedation, moderate or deep, ACLS certification is also required.
Experience using EMR (Electronic Medical Records) software.
Advanced written and verbal communication skills to effectively interact with a diverse population and professionally represent St. Charles Health System.
Experience working in a team environment and proven ability to collaborate, manage facilitation and consensus building among health care professionals and agencies to achieve expected results.
Must be able to wear appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) required to perform the job safely.
Excellent communication skills and ability to interact with a diverse population and professionally represent SCHS.
Strong team working and collaborative skills.
Ability to multi-task and work independently.
Attention to detail.
Excellent organizational skills, written and oral communication and customer service skills, particularly in dealing with stressful personal interactions.
Intermediate to advanced proficiency with Electronic Medical Record systems.
Intermediate in Microsoft applications (Word, Excel).

Nice To Haves

Experience in Gastroenterology
Prior experience with trauma and acute care surgery and/or critical care.
Epic EMR software experience

Responsibilities

Provides medical and appropriate outpatient care to patients, including evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and documentation.
Assists GI MDs by providing inpatient consults and rounding on department patients.
Coordinates medical, ancillary, nursing, and other services.
Monitors patients' on-going care plan and refers them to other departments based on their assessment of patients' progress and condition.
Obtains pertinent medical history and appropriate physical evaluations.
Orders and interprets pertinent lab and/or x-ray studies and conveys the information obtained to the supervising Physician in a meaningful way.
Performs and documents preprocedural and preadmission histories and physicals as well as discharge summaries.
Facilitates referrals to community health facilities, agencies, and resources.
Recognizes medical emergencies and initiates evaluative and treatment procedures necessary in life-threatening situations and immediately reports to supervising physicians.
Interpret and report on diagnostic tests in a timely manner in compliance with St Charles defined Standards.
Support the delivery, measurement and improvement of quality health measures as identified by SCMG.
Consults with the physicians, nursing staff, and technicians to evaluate standards of patient care provided and makes recommendations for improvement.
Completes clinical records in a timely manner fostering good communication between the health care providers and providing for continuity of care and coordination of services.
Prescribes medications within the scope of their practice and Oregon law.
Performs procedures within the scope of their practice and the law, under the direction of the supervising physician.
Delivers customer service and/or patient care in a manner that promotes goodwill, is timely, efficient, and accurate.
Document all patient care within the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and complete all necessary tasks in compliance with health system policies and regulatory agencies to ensure timely and accurate billing.
Be familiar with the ST Charles organization structure.
Participate in St Charles physicians’ meetings and assist in policy and clinical practice guidelines formation for St Charles and Physician’s practice.
Keep medical knowledge and skills current through regular CME activity.
Attest to having adequate (CME) to meet maintenance of board certification and compliance with MSO rules and continuing privileges without restriction.
Keep all licenses and appropriate certifications current and unrestricted.
Maintain active privileges at a St. Charles Health System hospital sufficient to permit performance of job duties.
Participates in creating a healing environment that supports all aspects of the care environment and the wholeness of each individual, patient and caregiver.
Provides and maintains a safe environment for caregivers, patients, and guests.
Conducts all activities with the highest standards of professionalism and confidentiality.
Delivers first-rate customer service and/or patient care in a manner that promotes goodwill, and is timely, efficient and accurate, and courteous.
Educates, counsels, and assists patients and families regarding current health problems, health maintenance activities and preventive behaviors.
Provide a therapeutic presence in service to others by purposefully responding to the needs of patients/customers in a caring way.
Comply with all applicable laws, regulations, policies, and procedures, supporting the health system’s corporate integrity efforts by acting in an ethical and appropriate manner, reporting known or suspected violations of applicable rules, and cooperating fully with all health system’s investigations and proceedings.