NP/PA Locums Need- Corrections in the Greater Philadelphia Area!
Any state license (active, unrestricted) !
Schedule: Mon-Fri; normally 40 hrs per week
Hours 7:30a-4p with a 30 min unpaid lunch
The schedule is subject to change based on the variable needs of the institution and the unpredictable nature of the correctional environment.
Requirements
Any state license ( active, unrestricted)
BLS required
1 year (or more) of correctional experience is preferred, but not req'd.
Located in Eastern Pennsylvania
- Duties : The contractor will be required to provide general medical services, which include providing diagnostic evaluations, preventative health treatment for the inmate population presenting with general medical problems as requested by the FDC s medical staff. The duties will include, but are not limited to the following:Provide diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive health care services for the inmate
- Take medical histories, examine patients, and order and interpret laboratory tests and x-rays
- Make a diagnosis, provide treatment plans and prescribe medications
- Clinically manage injuries by suturing, splinting, and immobilizing
- Attend to medical emergencies
- Record progress notes, recommend clinically necessary outside consultation, instruct and counsel, and order or carry out therapy
- Emergency consultation to be performed by the contractor in instances where deemed necessary. Perform minor surgery utilizing local anesthesia during consultation visits
- Work collaboratively with the staff physician(s) and consulting physician(s) in planning, instituting, evaluating and revising program plans
- Assists in determining conditions, resources and policies essential to delivery of the health care services
- Discriminates between normal and abnormal findings to recognize early stages of serious physical, emotional, or mental problems
- Manages the daily operation of the clinic and conducts daily sick call; which may include securing health histories from the patient, recording findings and providing clinical evaluations
- Administers and documents medications accurately according to policy/procedure and physician orders. Administers immunizations and tuberculin skin testing as ordered.
- Provides a wide range of emergency services, in the absence of the physician
For more information about this great positing please call, email or text!
I look forward to talking with you!
Brian Tebben
SUMO Medical Staffing
