Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Nutrition/Endobariatrics

Job Summary

Geisinger’s Nutrition and Weight Management Department is seeking an advanced practitioner to join our team at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, PA.

Job Duties

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.

Position Details

Education

Master's Degree-Physician Assistant (Required)

Experience

Certification(s) and License(s)

Basic Life Support Certification - Default Issuing Body; Certified Physician Assistant - National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)

About Geisinger

Founded more than 100 years ago by Abigail Geisinger, the system now includes ten hospital campuses, a 550,000-member health plan, two research centers and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. With nearly 24,000 employees and more than 1,700 employed physicians, Geisinger boosts its hometown economies in Pennsylvania by billions of dollars annually. Learn more atgeisinger.orgor connect with us onFacebook,Instagram,LinkedInandTwitter.

Our Vision & Values

Everything we do is about making better health easier for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities.

KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves.

EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.

LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.

INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.

SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family.

Our Benefits

We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and prescription coverage.