Job Quick Facts:
Specialty: Gastroenterology
Job Type: Locum Tenens
Facility Location: Yakima WA
Service Setting: Outpatient
Reason For Coverage: Supplemental
Coverage Period: Jan 06 2025 Ongoing
Coverage Type: Clinical only
Shift Schedule: TBD
Patient Volume: 1416
Support Staff: 1 NP/PA 5 MAs 7 Office Staff
W/ 1 FT provider a PAC & occasional shifts by employed GI.
Duties:
See more complicated liver & GI cases in addition to new referrals.
All standard clinic responsibilities including pathology review referrals & answering questions the PA might have.
Required Procedures:
Pill Cam (required to interpret studies) peg tube exchange Hemoccult test & Lidocaine injections.
Upper GI endoscopy: with biopsy with foreign body removal with fulguration of bleeder (cautery vs. laser) With injection of varices
Sigmoidoscopy: Flexible & Rigid
Colonoscopy: w/ biopsy & w/ excision of polyp
Trauma Level: III
EMR: Epic
Other Info:
If locum would prefer a hybrid schedule to include clinic shifts & procedure shifts (colonoscopy/endoscopy performed under conscious sedation at hospital) this is a possibility.
Not required to supervise APPs.
Hospital Privileges Required: Yes
Temporary Privileges available: Yes
Travel lodging and malpractice insurance covered
Requirements:
Active WA License or IMLC
BC
BLS ACLS