Job Details
Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant Sign-on & R
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| Type: | Tribal |
| Salary Range: | $135,000 to $185,000 / Per Year |
| Open Period: | 7/30/2021 to 12/31/2021 |
| Summary: |
Maniilaq Association, a critical access hospital, provides health, tribal and social services to about 8,000 people in Northwest Alaska. A non-profit corporation, Maniilaq Association represents twelve federally recognized tribes with Kotzebue being the hub of the service area.
Benefits include
• Relocation for the employee and family
• Sign on/Retention Bonus
• Yearly continuing education compensation
• housing
• Retirement
• PTO earnings & cash out options
• Free health, dental, vision, life, short and long term disability insurance for the employee
• And more! Please contact Jeanne.lawless@maniilaq.org for additional information.
Come join us above the Arctic Circle, discover Inupiat culture and experience life on the tundra. Maniilaq Association provides a wonderful professional opportunity for employment with intriguing people who are balancing the preservation of their traditional language and customs while implementing the knowledge and skills necessary to provide quality service. In this setting, the incumbent is expected to resolve the immediate health problem or to refer the patient to a physician where appropriate, after initiation of needed therapeutic modalities and diagnosis tests and eliciting pertinent physical findings. Provides routine and emergency ambulatory and preventive care services during regularly scheduled hours in cooperation with other medical practitioners. |
| Duties: | • Provides routine and emergency ambulatory and preventive care services during regularly scheduled hours in cooperation with other medical practitioners. These include: Assessment, diagnosis and treatment of routine illnesses (in adults and pediatric patients); management of chronic health problems; primary care for trauma cases, including suturing and casting; emergency care, including starting IV's, establishing adequate airways, and managing CPR and shock; screening of patients; provides family planning and counseling services; provides routine physical examinations for work and school. • Maintains accurate, current medical records using the Patient Care Information System or Cerner for all patients seen. • Participates in Health Center quality assurance activities. • Dispenses pharmaceuticals in accordance with standing orders or by order of precepting physician. • Performs and interprets routine laboratory tests. • Orders and makes initial interpretations of extremity and chest X ray. • Uses diagnostic instruments (e.g. ophthalmoscope, otoscope, stethoscope, EKG, etc.) as necessary to perform examinations. |
| Qualifications: | • Holds a current Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner licensure. • Knowledge and ability to perform effectively the above duties. • Knowledge of child and adolescent growth and development plus psychologic and emotional needs of adults. |
| Work Type: | Permanent, Full |
| Announcement #: | 2021:OTZ-061 |
| Who May Apply? | All Groups of Qualified Individuals |
| Get Details & Apply: | https://www.maniilaq.org/careers/ |
Contact
Please use the following information to get more information about or apply for this job posting.
| Name: | Joule, Angela |
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