Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner (APP) - Full Time Days, Internal Medicine

About the role

The Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner will join Highland Hospital's growing Internal Medicine team.

Responsibilities

• Admit and execute orders on adult patients requiring in-house medical coverage, after resident teams have filled, from the services of Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, subspecialties, Hospitalists, Geriatricians.
• Obtains detailed sign-out from the PA teams, to assist in evening cross-coverage and any medical issues the PA teams need to follow up.
• Conveys pertinent patient medical problems to the covering attending so a medical treatment plan can be formed.
• Admit patients to the inpatient medicine service from the Emergency Room, ICU, or direct admission pathways.
• Obtains a detailed medical history and performs a complete physical examination. Provides for further data collection.
• Completes all medical record documentation, including assessment/plan.

Requirements

• Fulfilled the requirements to be a licensed PA or NP in NYS.
• Medical management of house-covered patients or Emergency Room/ICU training.

Qualifications

• NYS License PA candidates.
• Current, valid license to practice as an NP in NYS for NP candidates.
• Must be BLS certified, ACLS preferred.

Pay

Salary Range $98,000.00 - $130,083.20 annually

Schedule

Candidates must be available Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 8a - 8p. No weekends or holidays required. Medicine APP's are required to pick up 8 additional shifts as part of their schedule (2 per quarter).