Locum - NP/PA - Urgent Care

**Position Overview:**
- **Profession/Specialty:** Nurse Practitioner (NP) and Physician Assistant (PA) specializing in Urgent Care  

- **Coverage Location:** Richmond, VA (multiple sites in the Richmond metropolitan area)  

- **Coverage Dates:** 3 days per week, commencing immediately upon credentialing and continuing until permanent hires are onboarded  

- **Schedule:** Clinics operate 7 days a week from 8 AM to 8 PM; shifts are 12 hours or longer based on patient volume. Providers are expected to manage all patients presenting during operational hours.

**Provider Requirements:**
- **Total Providers Needed:** 3 full-time (3 shifts/week each, totaling 9 shifts/week)  

- **Reason for Coverage:** Temporary staffing gap due to provider resignations  

**Practice Setting:**
- **Type:** Clinic  

- **Patient Demographics:** Scope of care ranges from birth to end of life, with variability among clinics day-to-day.  
- **Care Setting Proportions:** 100% outpatient  

- **Average Patient Load:** Varies per clinic, typically ranging from 25 to 50 patients per day, with an increase as cold and flu season approaches  

- **Trauma Level Designation:** Management of episodic events; higher acuity cases will require transfer to higher-level facilities (ED, ER, etc.)

**Required Skills and Procedures:**

- Competency in various urgent care procedures, including:

  - Laceration repairs (simple to complex suturing and stapling)

  - Incision and drainage procedures, including packing
 

- Foreign body removals
 

- Minor burn management and skin lesion care
 

- Orthopedic stabilization, splinting, casting, and joint reduction
 

- Diagnostic testing and point-of-care lab interpretation including rapid tests for strep, flu, COVID-19, RSV, urinalysis, and blood glucose

  - EKG evaluation and interpretation
 

- Epistaxis management (anterior nasal packing or chemical cautery with silver nitrate)
 

- Cerumen impaction removal

  - Airway support, including nebulizer treatments and initial emergency stabilization

**Documentation Systems:**
- EMR utilized: Epic

**Shift Details:**
- **Duration:** 12-hour shifts from 8 AM to 8 PM; expectation of variable hours based on patient flow; 3 shifts/week.  

**Job Requirements:**

- **Board Certification:** Required  

- **Licensure:** Valid Virginia license (active).  

- **BLS Certification:** Required (active).  

- **DEA Registration:** Required (active).  

- **Experience:** Minimum of 1 year in ED/ER, primary care, or urgent care setting (required).  

- **Background Check:** Must have a clean history with no malpractice or licensure infractions (no exceptions).  

- **Client Payment Policy:** Client will not cover travel expenses and is seeking local candidates or inclusive rate arrangements.  

**Certifications Required:**
- BLS
- Board Certification

- DEA Registration

**Licensure Requirement:**
- Active Virginia licensure.