Physician Assistant

Be legendary - North Dakota
About the Community - Fort Yates, North Dakota
Huge hills appear around the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, home to approximately 8,500 Sioux people and spreading across the state line with a total of 2.3 million acres. Along with fantastic roadside views, connections to Sioux traditions, and the travels of Lewis and Clark, the main draw to the reservation is its namesake Standing Rock, which stands in the town of Fort Yates, along the riverfront near the tribal headquarters. In the correct angle of sunlight, the stone resembles a seated woman wearing a shawl. Legend holds that the woman, jealous of her husband's second wife, refused to move when the Sioux decamped; a search party found her, turned to stone. Fort Yates also once held the original burial site of Sitting Bull who was killed here in 1890, but the unimpressive site, marked by a boulder on a dusty side road two miles west of Hwy-1806, is certainly not what one would expect for the great Sioux warrior. After his family exhumed his remains in 1953, Sitting Bull is now more suitable interred and memorialized near his birthplace in Mobridge, South Dakota just 50 miles to the south.


South of Fort Yates, the scenery and the driving (or riding) are magnificent. Flawless blacktop winds through valleys and up ambitious swooping hills of grazing land. You'll be confronted by one gorgeous landscape after another, especially at dusk, when the intense Western sun illuminates the bands of sunflower fields, turns the dry and grassy hills a reddish shade of ocher, and casts angular shadows beneath the darting sandpipers, who whisk their brown-and-white forms along the roadway, buzzing the lone care on the road in an extended game of highway tag.

Explore more of the breath-taking area of Fort Yates here.

Airport Information: The closest airport to Fort Yates, North Dakota is approximately 3 hours away and is called the Bismarck Airport with their website located here. The airport supports the following airlines: Allegiant, American Airlines, Delta, and United.

About the Facility - Fort Yates Hospital
Fort Yates Hospital, located near the Missouri River on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation at Fort Yates, North Dakota, is a fully accredited 12-bed hospital staffed by Physicians and Nurse Practitioners. The hospital provides comprehensive primary care based on the Primary Care Medical Home model. The Emergency Department offer 24/7 care and is designated as a Level IV trauma center. Additional services include inpatient care, outpatient care, dental services, behavior health, optometry, nutritional counseling and telehealth.

Facility Address: 10 Standing Rock Ave, Fort Yates, ND 58538

Physician Assistant: RESPONSIBILITIES (listed are included but not limited to)

• The Physician Assistant interviews and examines patients, reviews past medical history, and requests and/or performs diagnostic tests and examines deemed necessary to obtain all possible information related to each case. The Physician Assistant will provide definitive management and full spectrum family ambulatory practice in all medical categories for cases.
• Review the patient's medications, diet, therapy course, adherence to management plan and patient observations. Will modify regiment as indicated. Shall instruct and counsel patience and family members as required and does so in a culturally sensitive manner.
• Refer patients to appropriate contracted medical facilities providing full clinical information for care and diagnostic procedures.
• Assure preparation of appropriate medical records for all patients seen to assure the accumulation and organization of all pertinent clinical data needed to provide comprehensive medical care.
• Will work closely with allied professionals to advise and coordinate their services at other professionals and the management applications medical, psychological, and social problems.
• The Physician Assistant provides prenatal care to expected patients in the first and second trimester.
• Divide pediatric care from newborn to adulthood and is familiar with growth, development, disease states and unique status of pediatric patients.
• Is active in pre-visit planning of the clinic, coordination of care and participates in clinic improvement activities.
• Can expect to anticipate evaluating and treating approximately 12 to 20 patients during an eight-hour workday.
• Performs diagnostic and therapeutic procedures normally performed by family practice nurse practitioners such as, but not limited to performing minor surgery including but not limited to laceration repair and excision of skin lesions.
• The Physician Assistant performs orthopedic procedures such as joint injections, joint aspirations, aspiration of cysts, trigger point injections and other procedures normally performed by an outpatient physician assistant.

Physician Assistant: REQUIREMENTS

• Must have a master's degree in nursing.
• Experience: Must have a minimum of six months' experience.
• Education: Completion of a minimum of a master's degree in physician assistant studies.
• Licensure: Must have an active, unrestricted, and free of disciplinary action license as a nurse in a State, District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a Territory of the United States.
• Certification: Must have a current certification in Basic Life Support.

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