Primary, Urgent and Emergency Nurse Practitioners - Northern Alaska
Redmond, Oregon, United States
Job Summary
Occupation
Nurse Practitioner
Specialty
Family Practice/Primary Care
Salary
$800
– $800
• daily
Degree Required
Other
Position Type
Locums/Travel
Work Environment
Outpatient
Location
99752, Kotzebue, Alaska, United States
Visa Sponsorship
No
Job Description
Last Update:
4/23/24
Arc Health is seeking highly experienced, flexible and independent FNPs to practice at the top of their license to serve in northern Alaska above the Arctic Circle for 4-6 weeks at a time for multiple assignments throughout the year. This position is not for the faint at heart. This is a tough but highly rewarding position helping patients who might not otherwise get direct care. Ideal candidates must be:
About the location
- Comfortable with solo staffing and working independently in urgent and emergency situations as well as in an office for primary care
- Clinically capable, resourceful, adaptable, industrious, and personally willing to be flexible, and interested in making a long-term commitment to serving this rural community.
- Compassionate, mission-driven social medicine practitioners
- Interested in joining a dynamic and potentially disruptive social healthcare enterprise
- Schedule: 4-6 weeks at a time spent in one remote village, on an ongoing basis. May spend ~1 week in the town of Kotzebue before or after village work. Travel to village is by fixed-wing aircraft only.
- Support staff (in some locations): 1-2 Community Health Aides (trained and certified), receptionist, dental health aide
- EMR: Cerner
- Further details: Housing and travel provided. Providers in village clinics operate independently but can work in tandem with physicians assigned to the village who work in Kotzebue. Radio allows for prompt communication and there are emergency services (medivac) available for urgent needs.
About the location
- This position is within a highly interconnected healthcare network for Alaska Natives and will work in tandem with staff physicians (based in Kotzebue) and Community Health Aides who staff the village clinics.
- Remote community populations range in size from 117 to 890 and you may be the only one in the clinic at any given time.
Job Responsibilities
Maintains accurate, current medical records using the Patient Care Information System or Cerner for all patients seen.
Participates in Health Center quality assurance activities.
Dispenses pharmaceuticals in accordance with standing orders or by order of precepting physician.
Performs and interprets routine laboratory tests.
Orders and makes initial interpretations of extremity and chest X-ray.
Uses diagnostic instruments (e.g. ophthalmoscope, otoscope, stethoscope, EKG, etc.) as necessary to perform examinations.
Qualifications
Holds a current Nurse Practitioner licensure.
Knowledge and ability to perform effectively the above duties.
Knowledge of child and adolescent growth and development plus psychological and emotional needs of adults.
Must be able to use judgement in interpreting and, with some patient conditions, adapting guidelines; to determine which patient conditions can be treated independently and which must be referred; and in assessment of patients, initiating treatment programs, evaluating the effectiveness of care, and modifying treatment with appropriate intervention.
Current BLS, ACLS. CALS certification preferred but not required. WFR certification helpful.
Ability to survive, if not thrive, without stable internet and cell phone contact.
Working Hours
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Shared Call
Skills
Urgent Care
Emergency Triage and stability