Physician Pediatrics

Cherokee Indian Hospital Authority•Cherokee, NC

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Provides direct care/services to neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, and occasional adult patients. Responsible for providing the full range of care to patients by examining, diagnosing, and treating patients and their families in Pediatrics. The purpose of the work is to treat a wide range of medical problems, which affect the health, and well-being of patient and families served.

Requirements

Successful completion of 4-year college program, 4-years medical school and 3 year approved residency program in Pediatrics.
Will be proficient within 6 months.
Must be specialty board certified or eligible. Must become board certified within one year of accepting position.
Must have a current license to practice medicine.
Must obtain North Carolina medical license within 6 months of entry on duty at the Cherokee Hospital.
Valid driver’s license is required.
Professional knowledge of a wide range of concepts, principles, and practices in the field of Pediatrics and the skill to apply this knowledge to difficult work assignments.
Knowledge of the culture and medical health profile of the patient population.
Professional knowledge of wide range of health principles, practices and processes including physical and mental health diagnosis, establishment of care goals, development and implementation of the care program and evaluation of the results.
Ability to collect, organize, record an communicate in a concise method, data pertinent or primary health assessments including detailed family and medical history, physical examinations and selected laboratory tests.
Ability to interpret special screening and developmental tests.
Skills in making appropriate diagnoses, choosing, initiating and modifying current therapies.
Ability to provide preventive service to healthy individuals including guidance in nutrition, common illnesses, child growth and development and ability to teach individuals and families.
Skill in working with groups for example guiding families in the development of general problem solving ability regarding health problems, assisting with training health workers, and health counseling.
Skill in making diagnoses and in choosing, initiating and modifying selected therapies; and ability to provide emergency treatment as appropriate such as in cardiac arrest, shock or hemorrhage.

Nice To Haves

BLS and PALS training are recommended.

Responsibilities

Refers only the very difficult cases to a specialist.
Provides urgent, preventive, chronic, and progressive care. Instructs patients on specific treatment as well as in general preventive care. Admits patients to Cherokee Hospital as needed. Refers patients to contract hospitals for medical care and surgery not provided at Cherokee Indian Hospital.
Obtains admitting privileges at local community hospital as requested by the Hospital Authority.
Provides care, as needed, when scheduled for call and for emergency situations. The Cherokee Hospital provides 24 hours, 7 day per week service to the Cherokee community. The pediatrician participates in night and weekend coverage as scheduled.
Functions as Team Leader in multidisciplinary health care setting. Works collaboratively with other health care professionals to improve systems of patient care.
Participates in Service Unit meetings to develop new, and modify existing, medical policies and procedures relative to patient care with the objective of improving the quality of patient care.
Participates in community activities and community health planning as necessary. Assists communities in planning community health services projects as needed.
Maintains patient records in the problem oriented medical record format utilizing the patient care component of the resource and patient management systems. Promptly completes forms directly related to patient care, which must be completed by a physician. This includes inpatient, outpatient, and emergency room records. Completes hospital discharge summaries within allotted time frames.
Provides appropriate documentation to substantiate third party billing efforts. Follows service unit procedures for third party billing. Abides by facility compliance plan.
Observes and abides by the bylaws of the Service Unit and the rules and regulations of the medical staff of the Service Unit.
Maintains professional certification through participation in appropriate programs of continuing medical education.
The Cherokee Hospital provides 24 hours seven day per week services. Some evening, night, and weekend work is required.
May be necessary to work when Administrative Leave is granted if patient care is compromised.
Performs other related duties as assigned.