Family Practice/Primary Care Physician Assistant

NOW Healthcare Recruiting (NP Now) • Contract with Option to Extend • California, Eureka, United States • 1w ago

We are seeking a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to conduct clinical assessments for the people who sacrificed the most for our country

No evenings, no call, no prescribing, low patient volume. You pick when you want to work. Take the best lifestyle position in the USA for NPs and PAs!

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The mission: fulfilling President Lincoln's promise "To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan" by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's veterans.

Benefits:

Flexible schedule, work when you want to work .1-5 days per week or just 1 day every few months, you decide!
You will be paid $100-$620 per veteran seen. This comes out to roughly $80-120/hr on average, after all the documentation is done on each veteran.
Typically seeing only 4-10 veterans a day

About the Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Role:

MUST HAVE 2 FULL YEARS IN-PERSON, DIRECT CONTACT WITH PATIENTS AFTER GRADUATION

Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - NPs and PAs are performing disability assessments on Veterans for the VA. Broad overview: Reviewing Veteran medical records, lengthy history with the Veteran to understand their condition and how it is military service related, physical assessment and documentation of findings. This is a no prescribing / non treating role. A low liability role.

The veterans truly appreciate the care provided by the Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant, more so than the average patient going to a typical health system.

You will be fully trained in how to do these assessments. The most challenging part of the position will be learning and completing the documentation.

Ideal Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant:

Is investigative in nature, wants to understand the veterans claim, collect evidence, and stay unbiased.
Someone who can stay focused on 1 patient at a time vs. bouncing between 20 patients per day.
Can handle the challenge of completing complex documentation.