NP / Physician Assistant

*Highland Hospital is seeking a Full Time Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner (APP) to join its Internal Medicine team. Candidates for this role would work a 3 day a week, 12 hour shift schedule, primarily weekdays, with every 4th weekend requirements. The weekend requirements provide add on pay to go along with base pay.

The APP's on this team also share working 3 of 9 observed hospital holidays and work 8 additional shifts per calendar year. Paid for 40 hours per week. Some duties include but are not limited to: To admit and execute orders on adult patients requiring in-house medical coverage, after resident teams have filled, from the services of Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, subspecialties, Hospitalists, Geriatricians.

Obtains detailed sign-out from the APP teams, to assist in evening cross-coverage and any medical issues the APP teams need to follow up. To convey pertinent patient medical problems to the covering attending so a medical treatment plan can be formed. Admit patients to the inpatient medicine service from the Emergency Room, ICU, or direct admission pathways.

Obtains a detailed medical history and performs a complete physical examination. Provides for further data collection. Completes all medical record documentation, including assessment/plan. Writes orders pertaining to the patient’s care, including medication, parenteral therapy, clinical investigation, fluid therapy, laboratory data, X-ray studies, MRI, CAT, cardiac studies, diet, and special instructions according to the patient’s assessed needs.

Salary Range: $98,000.00 - $130,083.20 annually The referenced pay range represents the minimum and maximum compensation for this job. Individual annual salaries/hourly rates will be set within the job’s compensation range, and will be determined by considering factors including, but not limited to, market data, education, experience, qualifications, expertise of the individual, and internal equity considerations.