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Practice with us in Gilbert, Arizona!
Arizona Centers for Digestive Health (AZCDH) is hiring an experienced Nurse Practitioner to join their team in Gilbert. With 11 offices throughout the Greater Phoenix area, AZCDH is the state’s leading provider for full-spectrum gastrointestinal care, serving more than 70,000 patients each year. We are passionate about helping our patients live quality lives through education, regular screenings, and empowerment.
Opportunity Highlights
- Compensation is commensurate with experience
- Comprehensive benefit package
- Medical, vision, dental, and life insurance
- Malpractice coverage provided
- Paid time off
- Annual CME allowance
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Treat digestive diseases through comprehensive history taking, physical exams, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests.
- Diagnose, treat, evaluate, and manage acute and chronic illness and disease.
- Obtain medical histories and conduct physical examinations.
- Make decisions regarding data gathering and appropriate management and treatment of patients being seen for the initial evaluation of a problem or the follow-up evaluation of a previously diagnosed and stabilized condition.
- Maintain accurate documentation in the patients’ medical records.
- Document symptom assessment; communicate with collaborating physician(s).
- Initiate requests for commonly performed laboratory studies and diagnostic tests.
- Prescribe medications for acute and chronic illnesses to the extent authorized by state regulations.
- Counsel and educate patients on health behaviors, self-care skills, and treatment options.
- Participate in medical staff and other meetings and committees, community awareness activities, and staff training.
- Report errors of commission/omission immediately. Function within the legal limits of the scope of the practice.
- Refer patients to health programs and community resources for health guidance and specialty clinics.
Qualifications
- Maintain a current and valid federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) certificate to prescribe controlled substances.
- Clinically competent; possess and exercise the degree of learning, skill, and care ordinarily possessed and exercised by a member of the appropriate discipline in clinical practice.
- Must know limits and make appropriate referrals in situations beyond the practitioner’s ability, training, and education.
- Must be compassionate, conscientious, and meticulous, as well as possess excellent communication and leadership skills.
- Teamwork; Exhibit objectivity and openness to others’ views. Contributes to building a positive work environment.
- Must engage in Continuing Medical Education activities to maintain validity of certification and participate in available in-service programs.
Community Highlights
Gilbert is located southeast of metro Phoenix in Maricopa County. Gilbert offers a unique blend of an urban hub in an outdoors paradise. Live and work in here and you will see why our community is ranked among one of the best cities in the country.
- # 1 Best place to live in AZ – Ranking AZ, 2022
- # 1 Best Phoenix Suburb to raise a family – Niche
- # 2 Most Affordable Cities in AZ – Livability
- Top 20 Happiest Places to live – WalletHub
Contact Information
For more information or to apply, reach out to John Ritter, Manager of Physician Recruitment – Show Contact Details[email protected] .
