Job: NURSE PRACTITIONER - GASTRO-INTESTINAL (PER DIEM) (79974)

Department: GASTRO-INTESTINAL SERVICES
Employment Type: PER DIEM
Hours per pay period: 16
Shift: DAY
Facility: ST JOSEPHS HOSPITAL & MED CTR
Location: PHOENIX, AZ

Facility Information:

St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center has been a symbol of quality healthcare in the Valley of the Sun for more than 110 years. As one of the Valley's largest hospitals with more than 740-beds and 5,200 employees, we are extremely proud to announce that we are the only Arizona hospital to be voted a "Best Place to Work in the Valley" six years in a row. We are also proud to be named a Top 25 Workplaces for Women, a top hospital by Ranking Arizona Magazine and routinely recognized as one of the country's best neuroscience centers by U.S. News & World Report. We are also the ONLY Valley Hospital located conveniently off of the Valley's Metro Light Rail.

St. Joseph's is home to: the internationally renowned Barrow Neurological Institute; St. Joseph's Children's Health Center, which is the second largest provider of comprehensive pediatric services in the state; The Heart & Lung Institute at St. Joseph's; and St. Joseph's Trauma Center, which is one of the only Level 1 trauma center's in Arizona that's verified by the American College of Surgeons.

St. Joseph's continues to expand and enhance its services to meet the growing needs of the community by providing comprehensive neurological, neurosurgical, pediatric, perinatal, cardiac, thoracic, and cancer care. The hospital's nine critical care units serve more than 60,000 patients each year.

As a mission-driven organization dedicated to the legacy of service and innovation set by its founders, the Sisters of Mercy, St. Joseph's continues to help the underserved through clinics, community grants and outreach programs. The hospital is part of Catholic Healthcare West, which has more than 40 hospitals in Arizona, California and Nevada.

The Adult Gastrointestinal (GI) Department at St. Joseph's offers a full range of services to diagnose, treat and manage all digestive problems including esophageal, gastric, small intestine, colonic, rectal, liver, biliary tract and pancreatic disorders in both an inpatient and outpatient setting.

GI Services and Treatments

In addition to general GI services such as screening colonoscopy for colorectal cancer, the department provides multiple advanced therapies including Endoscopic Ultrasound, Endoscopic Ultrasound with fine needle aspiration and therapeutic Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). A unique and minimally invasive procedure, Endoscopc Ultrasoumd combines endoscopy and ultrasound in order to obtain images and information about the digestive tract and the surrounding tissue and organs. Endoscopic Ultrasound provides detailed, cost-effective, non-surgical assessment of many digestive diseases.

The GI Department also offers a variety of subspecialty services and treatments for disorders that include:
*Pancreaticobiliary tumors/malignancies
*Pancreatic cysts
*Cancers
- esophagus, gastric, rectal, pancreatic
*Dysphagia, malnutrition
*Hepatobiliary disease in pregnancy
POSITION SUMMARY

In collaboration with the physician/medical director, assumes clinical responsibility for tasks performed within Nurse Practitioner's scope of practice. Including: taking patient's history, performing physical examinations, ordering appropriate diagnostic tests, establishing diagnosis and provide care and management for common illnesses and disease prevention in the pediatric and adult patient. The NP may as assist in the admission, transfer or discharge from Health Care System. Makes appropriate referrals to specialists and community agencies. Participates in quality assurance and quality improvement program. Works within multidisciplinary team to develop plan for the patient and their family.
In addition to the routine duties of detailed in NP scope of practice the in-patient, specialty NP will provide care and management for acutely ill patients, respond to emergency situations, and may also see patients in the intensive care units.

Minimum Requirements

Educational Requirements:
Master's in nursing
Graduate of accredited program for nurse practitioners.

Experience Requirements:
Three years clinical experience in area of specialty

License/Registration/Certification:
AZ RN license or RN License from a Compact State. Please refer to www.ncsbn.org for complete listing of Compact States.
Registered in AZ as nurse practitioner.
Hold and maintain national certification in NP area, under AZ regulations.
ACLS and BCLS
Specialty certification when applicable; acceptable if obtained within the first 18 months.

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