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PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT – PER DIEM

Join Jamaica Hospital Medical Center

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center—one of America’s 100 Best Hospitals by Healthgrades—is a 384-bed, not-for-profit, fully accredited community teaching hospital serving Queens since 1891, where we started in just a four-bedroom house. Today, we deliver nationally recognized care in cardiology, stroke, oncology, imaging, and emergency medicine, and are New York State’s only Primary Heart Attack Center and the first Comprehensive Stroke Center.

With an expanded Level I Trauma Center, Pediatric Emergency Department, modern maternity services, and over 120,000 ER visits annually, we offer dynamic opportunities for professional growth, impact and clinical excellence. Through our affiliation with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the upcoming opening of our newly built, state-of-the-art Cancer Center, we continue to expand access to world-class care.

As a safety-net hospital, filling a void for the people in the community, we proudly serve all patients regardless of ability to pay. Join us during this exciting period of growth and help shape the future of healthcare.

Mission: To serve our patients and the community in a way that is second to none. 

Vision: To be the premier integrated healthcare delivery system by providing the highest quality, most cost-effective service, which is accessible and sensitive to all.

Jamaica Hospital

SURGICAL & TRAUMA INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center is a Level 1 Trauma Center, we provide consultation services and comprehensive and continuous care to patients in need of life support or who require intensive monitoring and treatment due to serious illness or injury.

We offer multiple state-of-the-art intensive care units that provide the highest level of care. Our expert staff of physicians, nurses, and other specialists are specifically trained in critical care and how to treat critically ill patients with advanced non-invasive and invasive procedures

We are currently seeking Physician Assistants with critical care backgrounds for immediate weekend per diem opportunities in our Surgical Intensive Care Unit.

DUTIES:

As a member of our team, you will serve as a principal healthcare provider working with adult populations.  Typical duties will include:

  • Taking initial patient histories and performing physical examinations.
  • Evaluating, diagnosing, developing, and managing treatment plans
  • Ordering and interpreting lab tests
  • Counseling patients
  • Performing various medical procedures
  • Central and arterial line placement
  • Chest tube placement
  • Conferring with attending physicians, residents, and other care providers to ensure optimum quality of patient care.

 

Requirements
  • 1-2 years of critical care experience
  • Bachelor’s Degree required.
  • Graduate of an accredited (Accreditation Review Committee for Physician Assistant Programs (ARC-PA) program, required.
  • A licensed Physician Assistant by the New York State Department of Education is required.
  • Current NCCPA Certification from the National Commission on the Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA), is required.
  • Current BLS and ACLS certifications are required.
  • ATLS trained, preferred but not required.

 
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