APRN Gastroenterology Specialist

Parrish Health Network is seeking a highly skilled APRN Gastroenterology to join our team. As an APRN Gastroenterology, you will be responsible for providing high-quality patient care and promoting a culture of choice within our organization.

• Interview patients, obtain and record health histories, perform physical and development assessments, order appropriate diagnostic tests, diagnose health problems, manage the health care of those patients for which the ARNP has been educated, provide health teaching and counseling, initiate referrals, and maintain health records.
• Assist with admission, follow up, management, transfer, and discharge of ICU patients.
• Obtain and complete history and physical exams, order and interpret appropriate diagnostic tests, evaluate, assess, and manage patients requiring rapid response team, provide follow up management and care to infectious disease consultations, and write discharge orders, prescriptions, summaries, and provide discharge education when appropriate.
• Perform procedures such as suture of simple and complex lacerations, incision and drainage of abscesses, foreign body removal, airway management, endotracheal intubation, ventilator management, insertion of femoral or internal jugular central line, insertion of radial arterial line, chest tube insertion, needle decompression, thoracentesis, paracentesis, and lumbar puncture.
• Prescribe, initiate, monitor, alter, or order drug therapies based on the APRN's credentialed privileges, including agents of electrolyte, caloric, and water balance, analgesics and antipyretics, antihistamines and decongestants, anti-infective agents, anti-inflammatory drugs, autonomic drugs, blood derivatives, blood formation, cardiovascular drugs, central nervous system agents, coagulation agents, diagnostic agents, enzymes, expectorants and cough preparations, gastrointestinal drugs, hormone and synthetic drugs, local anesthetics, ophthalmic drugs, pulmonary drugs, serums, toxoids, and vaccines, spasmolytic, vasopressors, and vitamins.

• Master's in Nursing required, Doctorate of Nursing preferred.
• Two or more years of clinical experience as a nursing practitioner at a physician practice or in a hospital with a related specialty is strongly preferred.
• Nurse Practitioner and Registered Nurse licenses in the state, Board certification as a Nurse Practitioner in the specialty is preferred, National board certification as a Nurse Practitioner from an accredited agency, and BLS/ACLS.