Physician Assistant​/Psychiatry​/Pennsylvania​/Locum Tenens​/Emergency Physician Assistant

If you?re a physician assistant looking to make a difference for patients in a collaborative and dynamic emergency room setting, consider a role at Emergency Services, P.C., serving Northeastern Pennsylvania!

We?re an independent physician group with an opening for a physician assistant in the Emergency Department at Geisinger Community Medical Center in Scranton, Pennsylvania. You?ll assist our physicians in providing compassionate, comprehensive care to patients who need it most.

Join the family at Emergency Services, P.C., where you?ll be part of a close-knit, community-focused team?not just another cog in a health network machine. Help us deliver personalized care as an independent emergency department group in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

Job Location

Geisinger Community Medical Center, 1800 Mulberry St, Scranton, PA 18510

Employment Type

PT/FT opportunities, 140-160 Hours/Month

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited educational program for Physician Assistants
• Physician Assistant State License (PA-C)
• CPR certification
• ACLS certification
• DEA license
• PALS certification (optional)

Benefits

• 401K
• 80 hours of vacation time per year after the first year
• Continuing medical education (CME) allowance

Responsibilities

• Manage patients with the following chief complaints:
• Allergic reactions
• Abdominal pain
• Abscess/mass
• Back pain
• Bites
• Body fluid exposure
• Burns
• Cough/SOB/Fever/Sore
• Throat/Earache
• Chest pain
• Dizziness/Weakness/Altered mental status
• Eye irritation/pain/F.B.
• Extremity injury
• Foreign body removal (ear, eye, nose, vagina, Sub-Q)
• Headaches
• Head injuries
• Lacerations
• Motor vehicle collision
• Nose bleeds/injury
• Overdose
• Psychiatric
• Puncture wounds
• Rashes
• Seizures
• Syncope
• STDs
• Suture/staple removal/wound check
• Toothache/abscess
• Vaginal discharge/bleeding
• Perform the following duties, treatments, and procedures under physician supervision:
• Complete patient history, physical exam, and treatment of above complaints
• Order, prescribe, and administer medication as designated by the Medical Board rules and regulations
• Incision and drainage
• Burn debridement/wound treatment
• Slit lamp exam/foreign body removal from eye/eyelid
• Joint reduction/splinting
• Foreign body removal from ear, nose, vagina, sub-Q tissue with/without incision
• Laceration repair, including multiple-layer closures
• Nasal packing
• Nail trephination
• Arthrocentesis
• Provide patient care in Geisinger Community Medical Center?s Emergency Room, where one or two primary/substitute-supervising physicians will be in the ER with the PA at all times
• Assist in educating students and residents in the Emergency Department
• Work 140 to 160 hours a month with potential for additional hours

To Apply

• Complete application
• CV/resume
• 2 letters of recommendations

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: $95,000.00 - $ per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Work Location:

In person