Description

Join the professional team at the Chinle Comprehensive Health Care facility, This is a locum long term position with top pay and full benefits. Come along and see what it is like to work for a mission driven health center! Apply now! https://www.ihs.gov/navajo/healthcarefacilities/chinle/

NP or PA with strong background in Family or Internal Medicine as primary services 

• The Practitioner shall interview and examine patients, review past medical history and request and/ or perform diagnostic tests and examinations as necessary to make diagnosis for primary care services. They make diagnosis after evaluating information obtained and provide medical or surgical treatment and/ or referral as appropriate.
• The practitioner shall counsel and educate patients, families, community and medical staff about general health care.
• The practitioner shall prescribe drugs and tests necessary to provide including the use of radiology and laboratory
• The practitioner shall become familiar with and be guided by the Indian Health Service formulary and shall follow IHS procedures when prescribing drugs
• The practitioner shall be authorized to prescribe pharmaceuticals shall do so according to the availability of drugs listed in the IHS formulary
• IHS pharmacy services will provide instructions to the prescribing contract physician as to substitution of generic drugs for prescribed drugs
• The service unit pharmacy must approve drugs not on the formulary
• The practitioner shall participate in a continual process of quality of health care evaluation to assure the provision of quality service.
• Strive for excellence in providing general family medicine medical services.
• Comply with all IHS facility infection control and safety procedures, practices, and standards
• Respect and maintain the basic right of patients, to include but not limited to personal dignity
• Referrals- all referrals shall be done utilizing the Patient Referred Care (PRC) process. The PRC Committee utilizing PRC guidelines will review these referrals.

Requirements

Requirements

Qualifications and Personnel Requirements

• Certified through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
• Possess a current, unrestricted state medical license from any of the 50 states or Puerto Rico
• Maintain continuing education/ certification.
• Current Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) or Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Certification of Immunizations
• Declaration of Employment
• Certification of Education 
• DEA
• Must pass federal security clearance