Physicians Assistant

Job Details

Morris County Hospital (MCH) is seeking a full-time Mid-level Provider (PA-C or APRN) to practice in our Chase County Clinic, located in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. This position would have a working schedule of four days a week to serve Chase County and the surrounding area. Must be licensed and practicing in the State of Kansas. Experience preferred.

Why choose MCH and Cottonwood Falls to relocate? All of our locations are set in a rural setting nestled in the Flint Hills of Kansas, and only an hour and a half to two hours away from the Wichita and Kansas City airports.

Position Summary: Operating in concert with and under the direction of a licensed physician, the graduate Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner (APRN) performs a broad range of medical services, including, but not limited to the following:
Duties & Functions:

• Admission History and Physical including pelvic examination
• Progress notes
• Write or give verbal orders for any of the following:

a) Routine admission, Laboratory, Diagnostic studies.
b) Routine Diagnostic Radiologic Examination.
c) General patient care measures, including diet, activity, intake & output, routine vital signs.
d) Precautions such as Allergies and Isolation.
e) Various preps such as required, e.g. NPO, enemas, etc.
f) Symptomatic treatments including physical therapy, inhalation therapy, etc.
g) Medications may be prescribed as provided in state and federal law

• Counsel the patient as to preventative care, medical problems, exercise, and the use of prescribed treatments and drugs.
• The Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner (APRN) may assist or initiate care in life‑threatening emergency situations.
• The Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner (APRN) may perform standard clinical procedures such as venipunctures (to include IV therapy), arterial gases, catheter placement, intradermal tests, IM & Sub Q injections, EKG, control of external hemorrhage, application of dressings, wound care, suture uncomplicated superficial lacerations, not involving major nerves, arteries or tendons, removal of sutures, nasogastric intubation, tracheal suction, collection of specimens for culture.
• Apply casts to simple fractures not requiring reductions, and removal of casts and replace casts for older fractures.
• Incise and drain superficial abscesses.
• Remove superficial foreign bodies.
• In the absence of the supervising physician, the Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner (APRN) is responsible to the alternate supervising physician(s) as designated.

Written and dictated Chart Notes, Progress Notes and additional documents will be reviewed and signed as directed in institution bylaws.

• PA-C/APRN licensed to practice in the state of Kansas.
• 3-5 years of previous clinical work experience preferred.

Prior experience in a Community Health Center preferred.

Minimum Education:

Physician Assistant

Graduate of an accredited PA program

APRN

Master in Nursing degree (CNS or NP)