Urgent Care Nurse Practitioner

Assignment Length: Ongoing coverage need

Start Date: November 2

Openings: 5

Reason for Coverage: Long-term permanent search

Practice Setting:

• Urgent Care Clinic
  
  
• Must be willing to cover clinics in Belle Vernon, Dunbar and Mt Pleasant
  
  
• Sites are no more than 30 minutes apart
  
  
• Responsibilities include:
  
  
• Suturing, wound care, I&Ds
  
  
• Splinting
  
  
• X-rays, EKGs
  
  
• Drawing blood, IVs
  
  
• Comfortable seeing patients from 6 months to adult
  
  
• Comfortable working independently
  
  
• Patient visits include cold/flu symptoms, rashes, abrasions, lacerations, sprains, minor burns, splinting, x-rays, EKGs, I&Ds, etc.
  
  
• High acuity is referred to the local ER
  
  
• Average 20 PPD, 3-4 patients per hour
  
  
• Clinic staff includes 1-3 providers per day
  
  
• If Physician is not onsite a Physician will be remotely available for escalation
  
  

Schedule:

• Full-time coverage
  
  
• Monday-Sunday, 8:00a-8:00p
  
  
• Not eligible for OT
  
  

Patient Population: 6 months to adult

EMR: EPIC

Credentialing: 90 days

Requirements:

• Active Pennsylvania licensure
  
  
• Board certification
  
  
• AHA BLS, ACLS and PALS certifications
  
  
• Minimum 2-years Urgent Care or 1-year Emergency Medicine experience