Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant II - Nutrition

Mayo Clinic•Jacksonville, FL

35d

About The Position

The selected candidate will be working with a newly developed multidisciplinary team of physicians, APPs, dietitians, pharmacists, and nurses to provide world-class, evidence-based nutrition care for patients. This includes nutritional support such as enteral and parenteral nutrition. The role also involves working within a new Enteral Access Clinic, managing enteral tubes, performing tube changes, and handling potential complications. Additionally, the position will involve working with patients with chronic intestinal failure through medical and nutritional management. This role will entail both inpatient and outpatient care, establishing continuity of care for patients. Inpatient rounds include consults for nutritional support (parenteral) and complex enteral nutrition care, with collaboration with inpatient teams, surgery, and interventional radiology. Opportunities to conduct research and provide education are abundant in this role for rotating residents and Gastroenterology fellows. The Physician Assistant performs tasks in any authorized setting, including clinics, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, nursing homes, or a patient's home. These tasks include obtaining patient history, performing physical examinations, ordering and performing diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, formulating a diagnostic impression, developing and implementing a treatment plan, monitoring the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions, offering counseling and education to meet patient needs, making appropriate referrals, prescribing and dispensing prescription medication, assisting in surgery, and performing minor and surgical procedures. The role requires the ability to assess data reflective of a patient's status and appropriately interpret information relative to age-specific needs.

Requirements

Nurse Practitioner: Masters-prepared graduate of an accredited school of nursing and Nurse Practitioner program.
Current FL RN and APRN license and certification as a FNP, ANP, ACNP.
Physician Assistant: Graduate of accredited Physician Assistant program with current PA certification by NCCPA and registration as a PA by the FL State Board of Medical Practice.
Active BLS certification from American Heart Association or American Red Cross at start date.
DEA registration required.

Nice To Haves

Certification in Nutrition Support (CNSC) is preferred.
Training will be provided for candidates requiring further expertise in nutritional support.

Responsibilities

Provide world-class evidence-based Nutrition care for patients, including nutritional support such as enteral and parenteral nutrition.
Work within the new Enteral Access Clinic in managing enteral tubes with ongoing care such as tube changes and management for potential complications.
Work with patients with chronic intestinal failure through medical and nutritional management.
Provide both inpatient and outpatient care, establishing continuity of care for patients.
Conduct inpatient rounds including consults for nutritional support (parenteral) and complex enteral nutrition care with collaboration with inpatient teams, surgery and interventional radiology.
Conduct research and provide education for rotating residents and Gastroenterology fellows.
Obtain patient history.
Perform physical examinations.
Order and perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
Formulate a diagnostic impression.
Develop and implement a treatment plan.
Monitor effectiveness of therapeutic interventions.
Offer counseling and education to meet patient needs.
Make appropriate referrals.
Prescribe and dispense prescription medication.
Assist in surgery.
Perform minor procedures and surgical procedures.
Assess data reflective of patient's status and appropriately interprets information relative to patient's age-specific needs.