Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Nutrition/Endobariatrics

Geisinger; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join their Nutrition and Weight Management Clinic. This role involves evaluating patients for innovative endoscopic weight loss procedures and collaborating with a skilled team to enhance patient care. The successful candidate will focus on developing comprehensive treatment plans for obesity and malnutrition, ensuring the highest standards of patient satisfaction. If you have a passion for improving lives through nutritional management and bariatric care, this opportunity offers a rewarding path in an outpatient clinical environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in bariatrics and nutrition is preferred.
• Ability to develop treatment plans for obesity and malnutrition.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate patients and coordinate care in the endobariatric program.
• Develop treatment plans for obesity and malnutrition.

Skills

Patient Evaluation

Bariatric Care

Nutritional Management

Collaboration with Physicians

Education

Nurse Practitioner License

Physician Assistant License

Tools

Gastrostomy Tube Management

Job description

This Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant will provide services to patients and families in the Nutrition and Weight Management Clinic in accordance with established organizational policies and professional standards.

This role will include evaluating and taking care of patients who will be undergoing a cutting-edge endoscopic weight loss procedure.

This position will work in collaboration and supervision of the physician, diagnostic and therapeutic tasks to allow the physician to extend his/her services through the more effective use of the physician assistant's knowledge in the sphere of decision making required to establish a diagnosis and plan therapy. Meets the qualifications to provide care for patients in the specific age range on her/his assigned clinical area.

Performs duties to provide the highest level of patient care and maximize patient satisfaction.

Duties include:

• Help with patient evaluation, patient coordination, and growth of endobariatric program. Working with advanced endoscopist team in managing patient is in bariatric process and postprocedure.
• Evaluating patients with obesity and developing a treatment plan including conservative management (diet and behavioral changes), pharmacotherapy, and/or bariatric procedures (endoscopic and surgical options).
• Evaluating patients with malnutrition and working with physician and registered dietitian to develop treatment plans.
• Gastrostomy tube management.

Reports to the Nutrition and Weight Management lead Advanced Practitioner.

Previous experience in bariatrics and/or nutrition preferred.

Work is typically performed in an outpatient clinical environment.