Locum Tenens Emergency Medicine Job in Browning, Montana
About the Facility: Blackfeet Hospital
Blackfeet Community Hospital is dedicated to improving the health care and well-being of the community and those in need by providing professional, compassionate, caring, and accessible health care through continuous commitment to our patients and employees. The services we provide include behavioral health and social services, community health nursing, a diabetes program, an ENT clinic, emergency care, a nursing department, physical therapy, and outpatient care.
Facility Address: 760 Blackweasel Rd, Browning, MT 59417
ER Physician - RESPONSIBILITIES (listed are included but not limited to)
- The ER Physician shall maintain a continuous vigil within the immediate confines of the Emergency Department in order that services are readily and immediately available.
- Shall obtain a medical history, perform a physical examination as appropriate to the presenting issue, formulate a diagnosis of the patient's problem, and a secondary diagnosis, as required, to treat the patient.
- Render immediate medical services to those patients determined as emergent.
- The ER Physician will request and interpret laboratory and radiologic tests, as necessary, for diagnosis.
- Provide and order medically indicated treatment.
- Interpret x-rays and electrocardiograms.
- Suture minor lacerations and treat uncomplicated fractures.
- Refer patients as appropriate to the routinely scheduled clinics of the Outpatient department.
- Render initial assessments of which Emergency Department/Urgent Care Patients will require transfer to a tertiary care center and consult the appropriate physician on-call, who in turn will render the final decision concerning transfer and arrange transfer, if indicated.
- The ER Physician responds to in-hospital emergencies while on duty.
ER Physician - REQUIREMENTS
- Must be MD or DO and be capable of treating patients of all ages.
- Must have an active, unrestricted, and free of disciplinary-action license as a nurse in a State, District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a Territory of the United States.
- Shall be Board Certified or Board Eligible in Emergency Medicine through ABEM, ACEP, or AOBEM with no less than 2 years of full-time ER experience.
- Must have a current DEA.
- Must have and maintain current certification in BLS and ACLS through the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross.