ENT First Assist Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant- Western Minnesota- Sign On and Relocation Assistance

Join an established ENT practice with 1 full-time ENT surgeon, a full-time Allergist/Immunologist, and an Audiologist in Western Minnesota. This position would work in the outpatient, inpatient, and OR first assisting to help support the general ENT patient population.

Provider experience is required, open to training NP/PA with prior surgical experience and working autonomously.

Sign-on bonus, relocation assistance and a comprehensive benefits package are included with this permanent opportunity.

• Full-time position in rural Western Minnesota primarily in an outpatient setting to assist with ENT practice; 32 patient contact hours/week requirement, could be 40 hours if desired.

• Most post-operative patients are discharged, but those that are admitted the NP/PA would round on in the hospital, which is conveniently located in the same location as the surgical and clinic location.

• It is anticipated that after trained into the position, the ENT APP will be comfortable direct scheduling patients for surgery for bread and butter cases such as eustachian tube placement, tonsillectomies, & small excisions/cystectomies and roughly 55% of new patients would be seen by the APP first depending on chief complaint from patient.

• Ambulatory procedures/duties include: Adult eustachian tube placement, tube checks, ear wax removal, steroid injections into eardrum, drain removals, suture removals, and wound management. Other duties aside from direct patient care include: In basket management, medication refills, managing referrals to and from therapy services, and assisting ENT during the surgeon’s virtual clinic days to take photos/videos of the eardrum and throat.

EDUCATION & LICENSING REQUIREMENTS:

• License to practice medicine & DEA in Minnesota upon start
• Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner
• Successful completion of PANCE board examination for Physician Assistant candidates or Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP)
• BLS required

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