Nocturnist

Job Summary and Responsibilities

You have a purpose, unique talents and now is the time to embrace it, live it and put it to work. We value incredible people with incredible skills – but your commitment to a greater cause is something we value even more. This is the heartbeat of our organization and your time will be spent in a supportive, team environment with resources to help you flourish and leaders who care about your success.

In addition to bringing human kindness to the workplace each day, qualified candidates will need the following:

• Provides high quality medical care for hospital patients.
• Participate in chart audits and Quality assurance activities.
• Facilitates transition of care at discharge.
• Communicates health status and treatment plan to patient, family and hospital staff
• Documents information completely for patient care and billing purposes
• Conducts educational activities in required curriculums as assigned
• Teaches medical students, residents and others in graduate health education programs
• Attendance at interdisciplinary or nursing rounds.
• Daily communication with the team caring for the patient
• Keeps abreast of the latest developments in field, both academically and through applied skill.
• Development of personal and professional knowledge and competence through continuing medical education including maintaining board certification
  • Attends and actively contributes to Meetings

Other duties as assigned.

Mercy Hospital is an 82 bed, acute care hospital located in the scenic southwestern Colorado town of Durango. It is the only hospital in Colorado to be rated by Medicare with five stars for overall hospital quality. It is recognized for excellence in orthopedic and spine surgery and for outstanding patient experience and patient safety. Mercy has also received ten consecutive 'A' grades for patient safety from The Leapfrog Group.

Our providers use state-of-the-art technology in an environment designed to promote wellbeing and healing of body, mind, and spirit. Among the many specialty services available at Mercy are emergency care (Level III trauma designation), surgical care, cardiac care (including interventional), Orthopedic and Spine Centers of Excellence, a Family Birthing Center, home care, hospice care and more. Durango offers an exceptional quality of life with small town charm, excellent schools, and year-round, world-class outdoor recreation opportunities including snow sports, river sports, hiking, biking, camping and more.