What are the responsibilities and job description for the APP, GASTROENTEROLOGY Job Details | HHC position at Wishard-Eskenazi Health?
Division: Eskenazi Medical Group
Sub-Division: EMG -Employee
Req ID: 26724
Schedule : Full Time
Shift : Days
EMG is affiliated with Eskenazi Health and employs physician and advanced practice providers who support the Eskenazi Health system. A multi-specialty provider group, it strives to be a leading primary care provider serving all patients regardless of ability to pay or condition of health while advancing medicine through teaching and research.
Eskenazi Health is one of American's largest safety net health systems with more than 1 million outpatient visits each year. Partnering with the Indiana University School of Medicine, Eskenazi Health serves as the public hospital division of the Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County, Indiana. In addition to the 327-bed hospital located on its downtown Indianapolis campus, Eskenazi Health provides services at 10 federally qualified health care centers and multiple mental health sites and residential facilities located throughout Indianapolis. Eskenazi Health is accredited by The Joint Commission and has been highlighted as one of the nation's 150 best places to work by Becker's Hospital Review for four consecutive years.
Indianapolis offers affordable housing, excellent schools and a wealth of entertainment options, including a variety of amateur and professional sports teams, dynamic museums, live theater productions, symphony and opera concerts, a wide variety of shopping options and restaurants, and numerous outdoor festivals, as well as the famous Indy 500 race each May.
FLSA Status
Exempt
Job Role Summary
The APRN plans, coordinates, and evaluates patient's health care at EMG venues. The APRN provides diagnostic as well as therapeutic intervention and evaluation, including diagnostic and pharmacologic intervention. Performs or orders and interprets diagnostic testing. Utilizes referrals to other providers as needed. Writes prescriptions when having appropriate approved prescriptive authority. Performs office procedures within the scope of practice. Collaborates with health care providers across the health care continuum.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities
Clinical Practice and Education
1. Provides a history and initial and ongoing physical assessment of patients: medical, physical and psychosocial status including data from all relevant sources:
a. Obtains relevant health and medical history from patients and/or caregivers,
b. Performs physical exam appropriate for age, history, and presentation, including comprehensive functional assessment when clinically indicated
c. Conducts preventive screening and diagnostic procedures based on age and history
d. Identifies patient’s medical and health risks and needs
e. Updates and records changes in health status
f. Orders, conducts and interprets diagnostic tests
g. Maintains follow-up on patient labs and tests
h. Identifies the needs of the individual, family, or community as a result of the evaluation of the collected data
i. Selects treatment interventions to promote quality of care while considering safety, effectiveness and cost
j. Formulates the appropriate differential diagnosis based on history, physical exam, clinical findings and diagnostic test findings
k. Develops care plan and communicates the plan to patient, their care giver, or family
l. Evaluates patient responses in relation to care provided and the expected outcomes
m. Identifies non-pharmacologic interventions and prescribes non-pharmacologic therapies; identifies pharmacologic interventions and prescribes pharmacologic therapies within approved prescriptive authority from the State of Indiana
n. Provides patient education
o. Makes appropriate referrals to physicians and other health professionals and community agencies,
p. Determines the effectiveness of plans of care based on identifies, objective outcomes and reassesses and modifies the plan as necessary to achieve medical and health goals of the individual patient and communicates findings and plan of care to patient, their care giver or family
Job Requirements
TBD
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Minimum Qualifications, Training, and Experience
Eskenazi Health has been named to Becker's Hospital Review's 2018 list of "150 Great Places to Work In Health Care." This is the 3rd year in a row now that EH has received this honor.
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/lists/150-top-places-to-work-in-healthcare-2019.html