Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant II - Nutrition

Mayo Clinic; Jacksonville (FL); Vor Ort; USD 85.000 - 110.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville seeks a Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner to join a multidisciplinary team delivering world-class evidence-based nutrition care, including enteral and parenteral nutrition, to patients.

The role emphasizes inpatient and outpatient nutrition consultations, tube management, and transitions of care between settings, with collaboration across Surgery, Interventional Radiology, and nursing to optimize patient outcomes.

Qualifikationen

• Provide enteral and parenteral nutrition support.
• Inpatient and outpatient nutrition consultations.
• Tube management and enteral access clinic care.
• Continuity of care between inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Multidisciplinary collaboration with Surgery, Interventional Radiology and nursing teams.
• Participation in research and education with residents and GI Fellows.

Aufgaben

• Obtain patient history.
• Perform physical examinations with Nutrition Focus.
• Order and perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures related to enteral access tubes.
• Formulate a diagnostic impression and develop a treatment plan.
• Monitor and assess the effectiveness of interventions.
• Offer nutrition counseling and education to meet patient needs.
• Refer patients to appropriate services.
• Assist in Endoscopy and other procedures related to nutritional support.
• Perform minor procedures around nutritional support.
• Interpret data to address age-specific nutritional needs.

Jobbeschreibung

The selected candidate will be working with the newly developed multidisciplinary team of physicians, APPs, dietitians, pharmacists and nurses to provide world class evidence-based Nutrition care for patients; including nutritional support such as enteral and parenteral nutrition.

Key areas of the role include:

• Providing enteral and parenteral nutrition support
• Caring for patients in the new Enteral Access Clinic, including Feeding tube management and tube changes
• Providing inpatient nutrition consultations and enteral nutrition care
• Helping provide continuity of care as patients move between inpatient and outpatient settings
• Working closely with multidisciplinary teams; Surgery, Interventional Radiology, and other inpatient teams
• Participating in research and educational opportunities with residents and GI Fellows

The Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner performs the following tasks in any authorized setting (clinics, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, nursing homes, or patient's home).

• Obtaining patient history
• Performing physical examinations with Nutrition Focus
• Ordering and performing diagnostic and therapeutic procedures with Enteral access tube changes
• Formulating a diagnostic impression
• Developing and implementing a treatment plan
• Monitoring effectiveness of therapeutic interventions
• Offering counseling and education to meet patient needs
• Making appropriate referrals
• Prescribing and dispensing prescription medication
• Assisting in Endoscopy
• Performing minor procedures and surgical procedures surrounding nutritional support
• Demonstrates ability to assess data reflective of patient's status and appropriately interprets information relative to patient's age-specific needs.