Urgent Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant in Long Beach, California at Carbon Health

As a physician-founded and led organization, ensuring everyone has access to quality healthcare is what inspires us. The magic we’ve created lies in Carbon Health’s custom EHR and the collaboration among clinical teams, engineers, and designers who work side-by-side to deliver innovation like our hands free AI charting tool. That’s why we hire people who genuinely care about patients, solving healthcare challenges, and making a positive impact every day. Join us and help change the future of healthcare for the better.

What You’ll Do

• Provide exceptional treatment, collaborative care options (within the scope of urgent care), including physical examinations, assessments, diagnosis and treatment
• Order and interpret x-rays, lab results and EKGs
• Triage and manage patients thoroughly and efficiently, maintaining a steady flow to avoid long wait times
• Perform digital blocks and regional anesthesia; start IV fluids and perform minor surgical procedures, such as wound closure and management, foreign body removal, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, closed reductions of simple fractures or dislocations of fingers/toes
• Perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, such as aspirations and injection of joints, bursas, and cysts. Start IV fluids
• Perform closed reductions of simple fractures or dislocations of fingers/toes, including nursemaid’s elbow reductions
• Apply and modify braces, splints, and other orthopedic appliances
• Review and manage daily tasks, patient callbacks, and lab results, while on shift

About You

• Medical/Master’s degree and certification
• PA - Valid state license to practice as a Physician Assistant and current national certification

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• RN - Valid state license to practice as a Registered Nurse, NP - Valid state license to practice as a Nurse Practitioner and current national certification
• Current, unrestricted medical license to practice in the state of state
• Maintain a controlled substance license along with an unrestricted DEA license
• Ability to consult and treat patients of all ages
• Experience in ER, urgent care or similar setting (minimum 2 years)
• Ability to work two full weekends per month (required for full-time clinicians)
• Maintain confidentiality and impartiality at all times
• Availability to work in other clinic locations and some holidays as needed (preferred)

$59.25-$82.00 / hour