Emergency Medicine - APP PRN - Sioux City, IA

Area of Interest ----------------

Advanced Practice Nursing and Physician Assistants ------------------------------------------------

Job ID: 178520 ------------------------------------------------

Overview --------

UnityPoint Health is actively recruiting for a PRN Emergency Medicine Advanced Practice Provider to join our team in Sioux City, Iowa.

Choose a career that matters at UnityPoint Health. At UnityPoint Health, we believe that our patient-centered vision and physician-driven philosophy, along with our one team approach, ensures every patient knows just how much they matter to this world. Commitment to our team has earned us a spot on the Top 150 Places to Work in Healthcare by Beckers Healthcare. Come be an essential part of our core purpose-to improve the health of the people and communities we serve. At UnityPoint Health, you matter.

UnityPoint Health - Sioux City provides coordinated clinic, hospital, and home-based care for patients in Sioux City and the surrounding Siouxland area. St. Lukes offers a full range of services and programs that includes a state-of-the-art surgical center, Siouxlands premier birth center, 247 cardiovascular care, and Level III emergency department. In addition, UnityPoint Health - Sioux City is also home to St. Lukes College, which provides high-quality health system-based education to individuals looking for careers in healthcare.

Experienced Team ----------------

An experienced team of physicians, APPs, and support staff with low turnover and excellent patient outcomes.

PRN Hospital Employed Opportunity --------------------------------

• 247 hospitalist program responsible for adult and pediatric inpatients
• Schedule managed locally - flexible scheduling - team trades among themselves
• Fully integrated system with clinics and hospitals on Epic EMR to improve care coordination

Lukes Regional Medical Center serves 17,500 people in a three-state region of Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota.

Responsibilities ----------------

• Annual visit volume: 40,000
• Average of patients per day: 89
• Average 1.5-1.9 patients per hour
• 40 hours of physician coverage & 27 hours of APP coverage per day
• Shift duration: 9 hours during weekday & 12 hours on weekends with good shift balance
• Work on an as-needed basis
• Majority night and weekend openings
• Minimum 3 shifts per month
• Level 3 Trauma Center
• 32-bed ED
• APPs manage a 12-bed clinical decision unit
• Integral part of the ED team
• Ability to see broad range of patient complaints and practice to top of your license
• No call, good work-life balance
• Ability to work as a team member to improve the health of the people and communities we serve

Qualifications -------------

• Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
• Board Certified
• Minimum of 2 years of experience
• Hold an unrestricted medical license in the state of Iowa
• Hold current and unrestricted state and federal authority to prescribe and administer medications as necessary or appropriate to the Advanced Practitioners field of practice
• Eligible to work in the United States

We Offer ---------

• Competitive hourly rate
• A commitment to ensuring you have a voice that is heard regardless of role, race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation
• Support and development opportunities that are a crucial part of delivering a remarkable employment experience
• A culture guided by uncompromising values and unwavering belief in doing whats right for the people we serve

Community Details -----------------

Sioux City has grown to be one of Iowas largest cities - and its meteoric rise isnt showing any signs of slowing down. Sioux City is now one of northwest Iowas hubs for food production, healthcare education, tourism, and retail. Residents enjoy some of the most affordable housing in the nation, and theres always something going on - whether its Saturday in the Park, one of the largest music festivals in the region, or any number of indoor and outdoor attractions such as Cone Park, the award-winning Art Center, or the Sioux City Symphony. Whatever your tastes and whatever your career path, theres something for everyone in Sioux City.