Locum| Public Health Physician Assistant | Clinton, North Carolina

Position Details

• Job Type: Locum Tenens
• Specialty:
  Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
• Setting:
  Outpatient / Public Health
• Location:
  
  Clinton, North Carolina
• Schedule:
  
  Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM-5:00 PM
• Flexible
  
  Schedule:
  
  Monday-Friday between 7:30 AM-6:00 PM may be available
• After-Hours/Weekend Coverage:
  May occasionally be required

• Provide medical evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up care
• Obtain comprehensive medical, social, menstrual, and contraceptive histories
• Perform physical and pelvic examinations as appropriate to patient needs
• Develop and document treatment plans
• Prescribe medications and treatments within approved scope of practice
• Provide contraception counseling and management, including oral contraceptives, Depo-Provera, injections, implants, and barrier methods
• Perform smears, cultures, and other appropriate clinical testing
• Provide anemia treatment and follow-up
• Counsel patients regarding health maintenance, preventive care, treatment, and disease prevention
• Provide referrals when additional evaluation or treatment is needed
• Manage patients according to applicable state guidelines and clinical protocols

• Provide comprehensive reproductive and contraceptive care for patients from age 12 through menopause
• Perform examinations, diagnose conditions, prescribe medications, and provide counseling and education

• Conduct health assessments, physical examinations, treatment, and referrals
• Work collaboratively with the medical director regarding abnormal findings

• Provide patient history, examination, diagnosis, treatment, counseling, and prevention education
• Treat STDs identified through other health department programs and coordinate referrals as needed

• Support supervision of maternal health staff
• Provide examinations, laboratory services, prenatal and postpartum education, and management of low-risk pregnancies
• Identify high-risk or complicated pregnancies and coordinate appropriate referrals

• Diagnose and treat conditions such as pediculosis, scabies, and ringworm
• Perform work and sports physicals
• Provide examinations, treatment, and referrals as appropriate

• Serve as a clinical advisor and preceptor to public health nursing staff
• Assist with staff orientation and continuing education workshops, seminars, and in-services
• Participate in patient care review and audit committees
• Serve as a clinical resource and consultant for public health nurses
• Participate in community health presentations and educational activities
• Assist with emergency/disaster shelter duties and public health preparedness and response activities

• Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
• Graduate of an accredited program appropriate to the respective professional license
• Minimum of one year of practitioner experience
• Current North Carolina licensure appropriate to the provider's discipline
• Appropriate certification and authorization to practice within North Carolina
• Current prescribing authority appropriate to scope of practice
• Valid North Carolina driver's license
• Local Candidates Only

• Outpatient clinical and office setting
• Daily interaction with patients, families, physicians, nurses, and the public
• Multidisciplinary public health environment
• Opportunity to provide preventive, reproductive, maternal, adult, and community health services
• Position may involve standing, sitting, bending, stooping, and lifting
• Potential exposure to communicable diseases