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Job Description
NP/PA - Outpatient
"Not all who wander are lost"
The Community - Chinle AZ
The Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility (CCHCF) is based in Chinle, Arizona (Northeast Arizona near Canyon De Chelly National Monument). The CCHCF is a 60-bed hospital which serves as the health care hub for the region. The medical staff includes Family Physicians, Internists, Pediatricians, General Surgeons, OB/GYN's, Anesthesiologists, and a Psychiatrist. In addition to routine outpatient and inpatient primary care, services available to our patients include: Adult Intensive Care, General Surgery (including laparoscopic surgery), routine and operative Obstetrics, and 24-Hour Emergency Room Services. Health care services are provided to approximately 37,000 active users. Strong Navajo cultural traditions exist within the community, offering an opportunity to learn the Navajo language, or to learn about traditional Navajo medicine. The service unit is located on the Colorado Plateau with excellent opportunities for photography, hiking, running, road biking, cross country skiing, and mountain biking. Canyon de Chelly National Monument is within 5 miles of the hospital and is a wonderful place for exploring and sightseeing, running and mountain biking.
Explore the Canon de Chelly
It's a dreamy, approximate three-hour drive to the nearest international airport from Chinle, the Albuquerque International Sunport. Serving a multitude of over 30 direct flights daily across the U.S., the AIS sees providers such as the Southwest, United Airlines, American Airlines, Southwest, Jet Blue and Delta.
220 Sunport Blvd SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106.
Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility (CCHCF)
CCHCF provides medical care for approximately 35,000 Navajo. Serving a rural area, many of our patients travel 100 miles round trip to receive care and do not have electricity or running water in their homes. In addition, most of our elderly patients speak only Navajo, and live according to traditional Navajo cultural practices. The CCHCF and Ambulatory Care Center is a 60-bed inpatient hospital and outpatient facility. Services offered include:
• Adult Inpatient • Labor & Delivery • Pharmacy
• Adult Intensive Care • Mental Health • Physical Therapy
• Anesthesiology • Nurse Phone Triage Services* • Podiatry
• Audiology • OB/GYN & Midwifery • Public Health
• Dental • Occupational Therapy • Radiology
• Emergency Medicine • Optometry • School Health
• General Surgery • Outpatient Primary Care • Speech Pathology
• Lab • Pediatric Inpatient • Women's Health
Highway 191, Chinle, AZ 86503
RESPONSIBILITIES
PA/NP will pro vide dia gnost ic , preventive , and therapeutic health service s to eligible patients and family memb e r s 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 and make critical evaluations.
- Personally perform or request specia l screening and de ve l o pmental te s t s.
- Order laboratory te sts and interpret the result s.
- Discriminate between normal and anconal findings.
- Mak e decisions with phy s ician s concerning the medical care need s of patient s.
- Provide direct medic a l care in the presence of illnes s or disabilit y in order to maintain life , provid e comfort, reduce di s tres s and enhance coping ability.
- Provide surve illance over medical practices applied to stabilize chronically ill persons.
- Adjust treatment within established stan din g o rder s recogni z ing when to refer the patient to a physician or other health team member s.
- Work collaboratively with physicians in the management of selected complex medical problems.
- When clinically engaged with a medically complex patien t present the case to the physician clinic consultant for th e da y for prop er treatment and disposition.
- Consult the clinic physician consultant or on-call hospitali st for patients assessed and deemed to require admission to the hospital.
- Participate with other health professionals and agencies in volved in providing health care and services required to include immunization and disea se control, environmental health, and health education .
- Provide emerge nc y or crisis inter ven tion in order to stabilize a patient for transport to a higher-level facilit y.
- Provide medical care and preventiv e services to h ea lth y individuals.
- Evaluate total health care needs of patients and de v elops plans to meet these need s.
- Required information for use in program operati o n , qu a lity control a nd o ther purposes (all medica l record information- generated in the performance of this contract will remain the property and subject to the exclusive co n tro l of the Indian Health Service) .
- Participate in certain medi ca l s taff committee me e ting s as required.
- Comply with a ll Client facility infection control and safety procedure s, practices, and standards.
- Meet a ll applicab le Joint Comm i ssion on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization (JCAHO) and Cen ter s for Medicare / Medicaid Services (CMS) standards during the performance of thi s contract and must be in compliance with the Service Unit' s Medical Staff B y laws.
- Be eligible for enro llment in the service unit' s Medicare part B rea ss ignment program.
- Respect the basic rights of patients, to includ e bu t not b e limited t
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| Employer: |
Kurz Solutions
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| Post Date: |
Mar 28, 2024 |
| Profession: |
Advanced Practitioner |
| Job Type: |
PA |
| Specialty: |
Family Practice |
| Location: |
Arizona - Chinle |
| Job Reference: |
22-00057 |
| Contact Details: |
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