Advanced Practice Professional - Hospitalist

About the role

Provides comprehensive health care services for inpatients, outpatients, and emergency patients at Wrangell Medical Center and serves as a community liaison and referral physician for communities and clinics throughout Southeast Alaska.

Responsibilities

• High level decision making for patients of all ages, from neonates to laboring patients to adults.
• Ensures that health care delivered throughout the facility is of the highest quality.
• Covers multiple areas of the facility at the same time, responsible for all patients on the premises.
• Provides appropriate clinical health care services to the emergency room, acute care, and long-term care patients of Wrangell Medical Center.
• Supports outpatient care as requested, such as provider inbox coverage and after-hours virtual care.
• Includes evaluations, clinical analysis, treatment recommendation, and preventive health care for outpatients and inpatients, including deliveries.
• Serves as a consultative liaison to village health care providers and referral physicians throughout Southeast Alaska.
• Participates in all medical staff functions as requested, to include quality assurance reviews and meetings.
• Absorb and apply specialized knowledge applicable to emergency medicine, such as airway and trauma management.
• Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, and demonstrate clinical judgment skills for emergencies, such as intubation skills and cardiac resuscitation.

Requirements

• N.P. or Physician Assistant degree
• Board certified in specialty area
• At least 2 years of experience in emergency room and/or acute care environment
• Alaska Medical License issued by the Alaska State Medical Board
• BLS, BLSO, PALS, ACLS, ATLS required; ALSO and NRP encouraged

Qualifications

• Specialized knowledge applicable to emergency medicine, such as airway and trauma management.
• Oral and written communication skills.
• Skills appropriate for emergencies, such as intubation skills and cardiac resuscitation.

Skills

• Ability to gather and analyze information and use it to make appropriate clinical diagnosis and therapeutic decisions.
• Knowledge of allopathic theories and therapies.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to order diagnostic tests effectively and efficiently.
• Ability to work as the sole provider, with the support of other physicians.

Benefits

SEARHC offers generous benefits, including retirement, paid time off, paid parental leave, health insurance, dental, and vision benefits, life insurance and long and short-term disability, and more.