Start/End Date: Soon as credentialed – 3 months with the option to extend.

Schedule: Full-Time Mon – Fri 8a-5p, 1 hour lunch break daily. No weekends, no holidays.

Call: Lunch call coverage is required once per month. 1 hour per month

EMR: Cerner

Rate: Open to discussion

Procedures

• • Hospitalizations: Acute, Adult, Inpatient wards, male and female
  • Demographics: Forensic, NGRI, Civil, Jail Transfer, and Geriatric populations
  • Facility stay: Short and long-term length of stay
  • Psychiatry coverage is provided.
  • • Responsible for patient care that includes examination, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of medical illnesses for adult and geriatric psychiatric inpatient populations.
    • Serves as medical consultant to the attending psychiatrist/practitioner.
    • Completes admission medical assessments (including history and physical examinations, mental status examination) and entering admission orders.
    • Orders diagnostic/therapeutic tests and procedures.
    • Monitors patients’ progress, including laboratory values and special procedures with appropriate follow-up or referrals as needed.
  • • Consult with authorized representatives/legal guardians on patient medical status.
    • Collaborates with attending psychiatric practitioner if needed providing DSM-5 Diagnoses that are valid, complete, and supported by timely and appropriate assessment.
    • Provides coverage to the medical clinic, and the admission suit to ensure the admission process is completed.
    • Prescribes medications at the lowest effective dose in accordance with rational clinical practices. Assesses and addresses medication side effects and reports adverse drug reactions.
    • Ensures timely and quality documentation (admissions, follow-up annual, etc.) in patient records in accordance with policies, procedures, regulatory standards, and guidelines.

Requirements

• 3+ more years as a Physician/Practitioner
  • Experience working with adult admissions or geriatric admissions and acute and chronic health management of adult and geriatric populations.
  • Comfortable working on admissions workup and potential rapid turnover
  • Ability to work independently and within a multidisciplinary treatment team
  • BLS Healthcare Provider certification is required