Physician Assistant / Nurse Practitioner - Urgent Care
Carbon Health
What You'll Do
- Provide exceptional treatment, collaborative care options including physical examinations, assessments, diagnosis, and treatment
- Order and interpret x-rays, lab results, and EKGs
- Triage and manage patients thoroughly and efficiently, maintaining a steady flow to avoid long wait times
- Perform digital blocks and regional anesthesia, minor surgical procedures, such as wound closure and management, I&D, foreign body removal. Perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, such as aspirations and injection of joints, bursas, and cysts. Start IV fluids
- Perform closed reductions of simple fractures or dislocations of fingers/toes, including nursemaid’s elbow reductions
- Apply and modify braces, splints, and other orthopedic appliances
- Review and manage daily tasks, patient callbacks, and lab results, while on shift
- Provide oversight and lead the day to day operations, as the sole provider and serve as an expert by consulting, coaching, and training advanced practice clinicians
About You
- Medical/Master’s degree and certification
- PA - Valid Colorado license to practice as a Physician Assistant and current national certification
- RN - Valid Colorado license to practice as a Registered Nurse, NP - Valid Colorado license to practice as a Nurse Practitioner and current national certification
- Current, unrestricted medical license to practice in the state of Colorado
- Maintain a controlled substance license along with an unrestricted Colorado DEA license
- Ability to consult and treat patients of all ages
- Experience in ER, urgent care or similar setting (minimum 1 year)
- Ability to work two full weekends per month (required for full-time clinicians)
- Availability to work in other clinic locations and some holidays as needed (preferred)