Advanced Practice Clinician (Physician Assistant/Nurse Practitioner) – Seasonal Position

Are you looking for the opportunity of a lifetime? Are you interested in spending next spring or summer at one of the most beautiful sites in America - Yellowstone National Park? STGi is currently seeking a seasonal Advanced Practice Clinician (Physician Assistant/Nurse Practitioner) to provide services at our seasonal facilities at Yellowstone National Park.

Job Summary

The seasonal Advanced Practice Clinician ((Physician Assistant/Nurse Practitioner) will work in one of the three medical clinics in Yellowstone National Park. The clinics are located at Old Faithful, Lake Village and Mammoth Hot Springs.

Lake and Old Faithful, our seasonal facilities, open in a staggered fashion during April and May and are in operation until mid to late October each year, depending on the clinic. The Mammoth Hot Springs Clinic provides primary care, occupational health, and urgent and emergency care.

The Old Faithful and Lake Village facilities provide urgent and emergency care as well as occupational healthcare and some primary care for Park residents and employees. A wide age range of patients with diverse injuries and illnesses are seen.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Clinical Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.
• Administer medications to patients and monitor patients for reactions or side effects.
• Record patients' medical information and vital signs.
• Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions.
• Consult and coordinate with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans.
• Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses and conditions.
• Prepare patients for and assist with examinations or treatments.
• Prepare rooms, sterile instruments, equipment, or supplies and ensure that stock of supplies is maintained.
• Inform physicians of patient's condition during anesthesia.
• Administer local, inhalation, intravenous, or other anesthetics.
• Conduct specified laboratory tests.
• Direct or coordinate infection control programs, advising about necessary precautions.
• Prescribe or recommend drugs, medical devices, or other forms of treatment as deemed appropriate.
• Perform physical examinations.
• Provide training or instruction of auxiliary personnel and monthly rotating APC or medical students, June - September.
• Treat patients, lift and move patients, secure patients for transport, and transfer patients to medical facilities from your remote clinic.
• Lift, carry, push, pull, operate, and manipulate a patient gurney in outdoor environments during patient transfers.
• Potential need to rescue victims as needed by rendering emergency care, emergently moving patients from danger and securing the patient for transport, perform physical exams and treat patients enroute to hospitals, or at disaster triage sites if assisting the National Park Service in a mass casualty event. (Extremely rare).
• Independently care for acutely and critically ill patients, including:
• Interpret ECGs and rhythm strips
• Participate in obtaining and interpret plain radiographs, including extremity and chest films
• Manage cardiopulmonary arrest
• Initial stabilization of major trauma, including vehicular trauma and trauma resulting from animal attacks
• Initial Stabilization of critically ill or injured patients
• Manage myocardial infarction, including administration of thrombolytic agents
• Airway management with Rapid Sequence Airway
• Administer procedural sedation
• Manage orthopedic injuries, including closed reduction of dislocations and fracture stabilization
• Be available on-call for after hours patients on a rotational basis as outlined by operational needs of the National Park Service EMS.

Technical and Business Functions

• Identifies and reports problems to supervisor with hardware, telecommunications or other issues impacting duties.
• Utilizes IT systems for database tracking and other deliverables.
• Attends training on IT systems, both initially and with updates; asks for help when needed.
• Completes mandatory IT training by specified deadlines.
• Informs supervisor of IT and other equipment needs, particularly those that prevent completing projects within specified deadlines.