Locum Hospitalist MD/DO - Globe, AZ
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States

Job Summary

Occupation Physician
Specialty Hospitalist
Degree Required MD/DO
Position Type Locums/Travel
Work Environment Hospital
Location Globe, Arizona, United States
Visa Sponsorship No

Job Description

Last Update: 10/17/24
Locum Hospitalist MD/DO need in Globe, AZ

Top Daily Rate + All Travel Expenses

General Hospital Setting

Start Date: 11/14/24

End Date: 11/18/24

Credentialing Timeframe: Typically 30 days but applications are prioritized according to start date.

Work Schedule: 12PM - 12PM (last day handoff can be between 12-3PM)
AVG Nightly Callbacks: this is a busy program but is a two-doc model. So they will only be on call every other night.
This is 24 hour coverage every other day, 12 hour coverage every other day. This is our busiest program and a two doc model. The patient load is split between two doctors, and they take turns taking night time call.

Patient Volume:
Clinical:
  • Total Beds: 25
    Avg Daily Encounters: 15-18 per doc
    Avg Daily Census: 22+
    ICU Beds: 4
    ICU Model: Open
Hospitalist Schedule:
  • 24 Hr Shift/On Site (typically 12-15 hr. shift + night call)
  • Admits and Rounding
  • Shifts are 12pm - 12pm (last day handoff can be between 12-3pm)
  • If the shift falls on a weekend, we will need to schedule orientation sometime Mon thru Fri between 8a-5p.
  • If the first shift falls on a weekday, we will need them to arrive on the first day at 8am and complete orientation from 8a-noon.
  • Client will cover hotel for the first night the provider arrives and then they will stay in accommodations across the street.
Morning Rounds
  • Hospitalists typically begin morning rounds between 7:00am and 8:00am (facility dependent)
Informal Evening Rounds
  • Informal evening rounds are a great way to make yourself available and preempt issues before turning in. By interacting with ED staff and nursing staff between 9:00 pm and 10:00 pm, you might save yourself some work - and a 2:00 am wake up call - which will help ensure you get the rest you need!
Admissions
  • ED skillsets vary, and considering the limitations posed by rural settings, we want to ensure that we avoid admitting patients only to have them immediately transferred once you've had the opportunity to evaluate them.
  • While we encourage the use of transition orders overnight and during busy clinical times during the day in order to augment ED throughput, we want to ensure you're in the ED evaluating patients as much as possible.
Overnight Admissions
  • Between 11:00 pm and 6:00 am, transition orders will be used to admit patients. Transition orders are written by the ED physicians to facilitate admission and prevent you from having to enter the order yourself. Overnight admissions should be rounded on the following morning after ICU patients.
Note: all high acuity level ICU patients require immediate bedside evaluation at the time of admission, regardless of time of day.
Rounding on overnight admissions enables you to:
Discharges
  • You should know which patients are awaiting discharges when rounds begin. These patients should be identified in the interdisciplinary team meetings from the preceding day, and case management should have all needs addressed in preparation for discharge.
  • The patients are told the preceding day that they'll be discharged as well, so they will be anticipating seeing the provider early and being out of the hospital by noon if possible.
  • Prioritizing discharges is intentional so the nursing staff can get all their paperwork completed for the patient, the patient can physically leave, and EVS can do a terminal clean on the room preparing for another patient to be admitted from the ED in the afternoon when admissions begin to come in.

Procedures: Hospitalists must be able to do emergent intubations, vent management, and central lines, paros and thoras.

EMR: Meditech EMR, they have Dragon Dictation

License: AZ

Certifications: Case logs required, AP/CP Certified