Physician Assistant / Nurse Practitioner - Northern Region

About the role

GI Associates is seeking a Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner to join our Northern Region team, providing comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic care to patients in collaboration with experienced gastroenterologists. This role delivers high-quality, efficient, and cost-effective care to patients and their families within our clinics, playing a key part in ensuring continuity, clinical excellence, and an exceptional patient experience.

This position is based primarily in our Northern Region, including our Rhinelander Clinic and Woodruff outreach clinic. Travel to our Wausau Clinic is also required.

Responsibilities

• Provides patient care consistent with clinical standards including assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation and evaluation in the hospital, clinic, and outreach sites.
• Provides inpatient coverage including patient rounds, performing consults, and ordering and monitoring lab tests and radiology results.
• Assures that supervising physician is informed about patient condition, test results, and care plans at all times.
• Coordinates post-discharge follow-up plan with GIA providers to assure continuity of care.
• Effectively communicates and coordinates plan of care with patients and their families, referring physicians, and supporting professional team members in both the hospital and clinic setting.
• Documents all actions and plans accurately, timely and per standards of the setting in which patient care is rendered including successful participation in quality reporting programs.
• Collaborates with the Clinic Coordinator, Reception, and Clinical Team Leads to build and maintain a cohesive, patient-focused clinic medical assistant team environment.
• Maintains clinic schedule that maximizes patient access to appointment and designed to meet productivity targets as defined by the clinic.
• Provides in-service education for GIA staff, patient support groups, and community education forums.
• Assists in the development of patient education materials.
• Maintains clinical and coding knowledge in an evolving healthcare environment.
• Serves as a role model of customer service for patients, co-workers, and referring providers.

Qualifications

Graduate of an accredited physician assistant or nurse practitioner program.

Current and valid Wisconsin Physician Assistant license; or Wisconsin Registered Nurse license and Advanced Practice Nurse Prescriber license.

Current NCCPA certification; or AANP or ANCC certification.

BLS certification required; ACLS certification preferred.

Skills

• Possesses interpersonal, communication, and listening skills necessary to deal effectively and courteously with patients, physicians, and all staff members.
• Proficient computer skills working in an Electronic Medical Record (EMR).
• Demonstrates professionalism and respect in all forms of communication and correspondence.
• Skill in exercising a high degree of initiative, judgment, discretion and decision making to achieve organizational objectives.

Abilities

• Exhibits professionalism and sound judgment in all matters as a member of leadership in the organization.
• Ability to practice integrity by showing an uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values.
• Ability to maintain strict confidentiality of personnel, fiscal, and health information.
• Ability to work in a fast paced, multi-tasking environment and cope with rapidly changing patient care needs.