Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant FT or PT

Healthcare Talent Support is a nationwide healthcare recruitment company.  Our client is actively seeking a Physician Assistant (PA) or Nurse Practitioner (NP) to provide direct patient care within a busy Emergency Department.

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Status: W2, Full or Part time

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Schedule:

Monday - Friday 8am - 8pm or 10am - 10pm 

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About the facility:

• Level II ED, though about half the patients are ESI level 4 and 5  
• 30,000 annual ED visits
• 16 beds, can surge to 24 if needed
• Very few community ambulance patients.  
• Facility has an attached CLC (nursing home) and Spinal cord injury - sickest patients come from there.  
• The hospital has 8 ICU & SDU and 21 med surg beds.  We also have 35 acute mental health beds - when they develop issues after hours those patients come to the ED. 
• Academic team in house 24/7 who cover codes.  
• Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system name – VISTA, a “homegrown” EMR that was developed and utilized for Veteran patients nationwide. 
• Admit rate – about 5%
• Average length of stay – 2 to 3 hours
• % patients reported without being seen – about 1%

Responsibilities:

• Wound closure and suturing, suture removal
• Incision and drainage of abscess
• Aspiration of cavities – thoracentesis, paracentesis
• Insertion of peripheral and central venous lines
• Insertion of chest tubes, Cooke catheters, Nasogastric tubes, nasogastric feeding tubes, Foley 
• Draw venous blood and perform arterial punctures for blood gas
• Change gastrostomy tube and suprapubic tubes
• Familiar with the working of vascular access apparatus such as those used for chemotherapy and be able to flush them when clogged.
• Emergency wound care, e.g. unna boot placement, wound vac. care, wound assessment
• Emergency airway management including cricothyroidotomy, endotracheal intubation (including at least two live demonstrated endotracheal intubations during the past 12 months).
• Management of epistaxis with anterior and posterior nasal packing
• Hemodynamic stabilization of patients prior to transfer or to admission.
• Joint needle aspirations