Emergency Medicine Locum needed in Carrington, ND
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Job Summary
Occupation
Physician Assistant
Specialty
Emergency Medicine
Degree Required
Other
Position Type
Locums/Travel
Work Environment
Hospital
Location
Carrington, North Dakota, United States
Visa Sponsorship
No
Job Description
Last Update:
4/25/24
Shifts include 10 hours onsite & 14 hours onsite call.
DETAILS:
- Oct 9 (8a) - 16 (8a)
- Oct 30 (8a) - Nov 6 (8a)
- Nov 20 (8a) - 27 (8a)
- Dec 11 (8a) - 18 (8a)
- Jan 1 (8a) - 8 (8a)
DETAILS:
- Setting: ER/Hospital - Carrington is a trauma level 5 emergency room.
- Required procedures: laceration repair, cardiac care
- Duties: ER coverage, Hospital Rounds, Nursing home concerns
- EMR: Meditech
- Support Staff: Avel eCare, Nursing, Pharmacy, Clinic providers
- Inpatient census is 3-4 per day
- ER volume is about 5 per day. Hospital have a large Medicare population so see CHF, Diabetes, COPD. ER patients usually are urgent care patients, but hospital do see share of trauma and critical patients.
- CHI history? 20 bed critical access hospital. We are nonprofit, and are part of CommonSpirit Health
- Carrington is a very small Critical Access Hospital. We do not care for any critical care patients. We have a high rate of Medicare patients between 85-100% in the hospital and very low peds rate.
- Carrington is located between two nursing homes. Providers must be willing to conduct consults for nursing home patients.
- APP’s permitted to admit
- Must be comfortable and knowledgeable working independently
- ER has a Avera-e care- (in the case a second opinion is needed- TeleHealth resource for consults, extra set of eyes)
- Round and be available for the nurses
- Credentialing: Can Emergency Credential in one week if all necessary paperwork is turned in right away!