Locum Tenens Psychiatry: General Job in Missouri
Psychiatrist
Our client in Southeast Missouri is currently searching for locums Psychiatrist to take on the facility’s extra volume.
Practice Details:
- Practice Setting: Inpatient
- Coverage Type: Scheduled Clinical Hours + Call
- Call:
- Call Type: In-House
- Locums call is for both assigned and unassigned patients
- Call is one out of three. Does not have to come back to the hospital when on call with the exception being for a stat consult.
- Three doctors cover the unit Monday through Friday. Two doctors cover the unit on the weekend and/or holiday. Cover one weekend a month (rare occasion).
- Seclusion room coverage no longer requires a physician to come back to the unit. Seclusion is handled by nursing now with phone consultation with on-call physician for medications and new orders on the patient when necessary.
- Physician required to do Psychiatric Admission Notes, daily progress notes and discharge summaries. All notes are dictated.
- The physician on call is responsible for consults on other units along with their coverage of their assigned patients on the unit.
- Average daily census presently around 28-30 patients per day.
- Provider will be required to supervise other healthcare providers