PA/NP - Primary Care

PA/NP Primary Care

The romance of the Great Plains

The Community - Pine Ridge, SD Pine Ridge is a census-designated place and the most populous community in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota. It is the tribal headquarters of the Oglala Sioux Tribe on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The community was named for the pine trees on the ridge surrounding the townsite.

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PINE RIDGE HOSPITAL

The 45 bed Pine Ridge Hospital, serving a Lakota Indian population of more than 17,000, is the largest in the Great Plains Area. 16 physician staff sees medical, obstetrical, pediatric, and surgical patients. The facility located in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, includes full-service general surgery, an obstetrical ward, and dental. Kyle and Wanblee Health Centers and two health stations (Manderson and Lacreek) operate within the Pine Ridge Service Unit.

Satellite Facilities:

• Kyle Health Center Ambulatory Care Center with 14.5 providers
• Wanblee Health Center Ambulatory Care Center with 42 providers

RESPONSIBILITIES

PA/NP will provide diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic health services to eligible patients and family members in the walk-in outpatient clinics or field clinic. The following list is not comprehensive:

• secure a health and development history from the patient or parent;
• record findings; make critical evaluations;
• person or request special screening and developmental tests;
• order laboratory tests and interpret the results;
• discriminate between normal and abnormal findings;
• make decisions with physicians concerning the medical care needs of patients;
• provide direct medical care in the presence of illness or disability in order to maintain life, provide comfort, reduce distress and enhance coping ability;
• provide surveillance over medical practices applied to stabilize chronically ill persons;
• adjust treatment within established standing orders recognizing when to refer the patient to a physician or other health team members;
• work collaboratively with physicians in the management of selected complex medical problems;
• when clinically engaged with a medically complex patient present the case to the physician clinic consultant for the day for proper treatment and disposition;
• consult the clinic physician consultant or on-call hospitalist for patients assessed and deemed to require admission to the hospital;
• participate with other health professionals and agencies involved in providing health care and services required to include immunization and disease control, environmental health and health education;
• provide emergency or crisis intervention in order to stabilize a patient for transport to a higher-level facility;
• provide medical care and preventive services to healthy individuals,
• evaluate total health care needs of patients and develops plans to meet these needs;
• required information for use in program operation, quality control and other purposes (all medical record information-generated in the performance of this contract will remain the property and subject to the exclusive control of the Indian Health Service) ;
• participate in certain medical staff committee meetings as required;
• comply with all client facility infection control and safety procedures, practices and standards;
• meet all applicable Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization (JCAHO) and Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Services (CMS) standards during the performance of this contract, and must be in compliance with the Service Unit's Medical Staff Bylaws;
• be eligible for enrollment in the service unit's Medicare part B reassignment program;
• and respect the basic rights of patients, to include but not be limited to personal dignity.

REQUIREMENTS

• The Contractor must hold an active, current, and unrestricted (unflagged) state nurse practitioner (NP), or physician assistant (PA) license from any of the Fifty (50) United States or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
• The Contractor cannot be under any exclusions or sanctions from the Medicare/Medicaid programs.
• The Contractor must have received and will maintain national certification in Family Practice throughout the duration of this contract's period of performance.
• The Contractor must fulfill all the requirements for appointment to the Medical Staff and for the granting of privileges, in accordance with Client policies and with the Pine Ridge Service Unit Medical Staff By-Laws.

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