APP - Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner | GI

Facility: Sanford Broadway Clinic, Fargo, ND

Shift: 8 Hours - Day Shifts
Full time, 40 hours per week
No weekends or holidays

About the role

The Physician Assistant (PA) is a licensed medical professional who practices medicine in collaboration with physicians and other care team members. The PA evaluates, diagnoses, and manages patient health concerns across the lifespan, provides preventive services, and coordinates care to promote optimal health outcomes.

Primary purpose: Provide advanced clinical support to gastroenterologists and the GI team by managing complex clinical questions, endoscopy-related work, patient communications, referral triage, and selected specialty workflows while improving access, physician efficiency, and patient safety.

Time allocation: 25% complex patient management, 50% physician/inbox clinical support, 25% clinic patients.

Develop expertise in Advanced endoscopy referrals, Barrett's Esophagus and Pancreatobiliary disease.

Responsibilities

• Perform patient assessments, including medical histories and physical examinations
• Diagnose and manage acute and chronic conditions within scope of practice
• Order, review, and interpret diagnostic tests and imaging studies
• Prescribe medications, therapies, and other treatments in compliance with regulations
• Educate and counsel patients and families on health maintenance, disease prevention, and treatment plans
• Perform procedures & treatments within scope of practice and assist with procedures & treatments when indicated
• Review prior advanced endoscopy findings and pathology when relevant
• Review complex advance endoscopy referrals
• Respond to clinical questions routed from physicians, nurses, and scheduling staff
• Review selected patient messages and telephone encounters
• Assist with medication/refill questions
• Review laboratory and imaging results according to established protocols
• Help manage physician inbox workload
• Coordinate follow-up for complex patients
• Provide clinical recommendations within APP scope and established physician collaboration
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary team members to ensure continuity of care
• Maintain accurate, timely, and thorough documentation in the electronic medical record (EMR)
• Participate in quality, safety, and performance improvement activities

Requirements

• Completion of a Physician Assistant program accredited by the ARC-PA or equivalent accrediting program accepted by the state licensing board
• Current licensure as a Physician Assistant in each state of practice
• Current Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) permit to prescribe controlled substances in each state of practice
• State Controlled Substance License (if required by State)
• Current certification by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
• Privileging documents and related credentialing requirements will supersede this job description in defining minimum qualifications, criteria, and scope of practice, if variation between documents exists
• Clinical experience in specialty area is preferred but not required
• New graduates considered; experience preferred

1.0 FTE. Team comprised of 5 Gastroenterologists, 2 Hepatologists, and 9 APPs.

Benefits

Sanford offers an attractive benefits package for qualifying full-time and part-time employees. Depending on eligibility, a variety of benefits include:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Work/life balance benefits
• Generous time off package to maintain a healthy home-work balance

For more information about Total Rewards, visit sanfordcareers.com/benefits.