Emergency Physician

Emergency Physician
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The Community - Belcourt, ND
Belcourt is within the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation with a population of approximately 2000. It was originally known as Siipiising, which is Anishinaabe (Chippewa) for "creek that sings with life-giving water. " The name refers to what European Americans called "Ox Creek ", which flows through the center of town.

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The Facility - The Quentin N Burdick Memorial Health Care Facility - Client
The Quentin N. Burdick Memorial Health Care Facility located in Belcourt, North Dakota, and is a 27 beds hospital serving a population of approximately 14,550 Native Americans. The QNBMHCF Outpatient provide 24 Hour Emergency Services, Laboratory, Radiology (CAT Scan & Mobile MRI) and 24 Hr Pharmacy Services. Ambulatory Services consist of Optometry, Dental, Clinic, Emergency, Podiatry, and Same Day Clinic. QNBMHCF also offers Behavioral Health.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (included but not limited to):

• 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.
• Provide health care services, for the entire Period of Performance at the Quentin Burdick Memorial Healthcare Facility. The physician shall schedule and perform procedures as appropriate.
• Counsel and educate patients, families, community, and medical staff about general health care.
• Be able to do both non emergent and emergent surgical procedures within their requested scope of privileges. When appropriate, shall supervise the administration of general anesthesia by a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) if an Anesthesiologist is not available.
• Prescribe drugs and tests necessary to provide care including the use of radiology and laboratory.
  • Become familiar with and be guided by the Indian Health Service formulary and shall follow I.H.S procedures when prescribing drugs.
  • Prescribe pharmaceuticals shall do so according to the availability of drugs listed in the I.H.S formulary.
  • I.H.S pharmacy services will provide instructions to the prescribing contract physician as to substitutions of generic drugs for prescribed drugs.
  • The service unit pharmacy and therapeutics committee must approve drugs not on the formulary.
• Participate in a continual process of quality of health care evaluation to assure the provision of quality service.
• Strive for excellence in providing emergency medical services.
• Comply with all I.H.S. facility infection control and safety procedures, practices, and standards.
• Meet all applicable Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) standards during the performance of this contract.
• Respect and maintain the basic right of patients, to include but not be limited
• to personal dignity.

Requirements:

• Possess a current, unrestricted state Medical license from any of the 50 United States or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
• Be board-certified, or board eligible without additional education or training, by the American Board of Emergency Medicine.
• Possess current (BLS) Basic Life Support certification, (PALS) Pediatric Advanced Life
• Support, NRP (Neonatal Resuscitation Program), (ACLS) Advanced Cardiac Life Support, and (ATLS) Advanced Trauma Life Support

Shift: usual workday will be from 7:00am-7:00pm or 7:00pm-7:00am, rotating 12 hour shifts with a 2 week on and 2 week off cycle.
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