Physician / Pediatrics / North Carolina / Permanent / Aerospace Medicine Physician Job
Company: Kurz Solutions
Location: Elizabeth City
Posted on: August 3, 2022
Job Description:
Job Description
MD/DO - Aerospace Medicine Physician
The Harbor of Hospitality with a Breeze to Boast about...
The Community - Elizabeth City, NC
Known as the Harbor of Hospitality, Elizabeth City is a waterfront
community on the eastern seaboard, just 45 minutes from Norfolk,
Virginia. The United States Coast Guard calls the harbor home and
the North Carolina Potato Festival is held here annually.
Architecture buffs can enjoy six National Register Historic
Districts. Our little home perched on the shores of the picturesque
Pasquotank River, offers Cypress trees rising from our waterways, a
pirate's cannon in Museum of the Albemarle, four neighboring state
parks, ghosts of the underground railroad, and a sailing breeze to
boast about.
USCG Air Station Elizabeth City
Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City is a United States Coast
Guard Air Station co-located at Elizabeth City Regional Airport in
Elizabeth City, North Carolina, along the Pasquotank River near the
opening of the Albemarle Sound. It is the largest and busiest Coast
Guard air station in the U.S., operating missions as far away as
Greenland, the Azores and the Caribbean.
REQUIREMENTS (duties include but are not limited to)
- Ensure the fitness for unrestricted worldwide duty of active
duty personnel;
- Make appropriate referrals to specialists as required of
eligible beneficiaries following existing policy and
regulations;
- Diagnose and treat the sick and injured in accordance to the
acceptable standards of the profession;
- Treat eligible beneficiaries for chronic medical
conditions;
- Prevent and control disease;
- Promote health, and healthy life styles;
- Give advice on such matters as hygiene, sanitation and
safety;
- Ensure that personnel are physically and psychologically fit
for duty and attempt to learn of any unusual circumstances, which
might adversely affect proficiency;
- Maintain open and professional communication with members of
the clinic and the command;
- Request diagnostic studies such as laboratory and x-rays,
electrocardiograms (EKGs);
- Notify, or assure notification, to each patient of the results
of PAP smears, mammograms, biopsies, pregnancy tests, and all tests
whose results indicate a need to initiate or change in treatment.
Notifications shall be made within 48 hours of the receipt of the
results from the respective laboratory;
- Prescribe appropriate medications in accordance with Chapter 10
of the Coast Guard Medical Manual;
- Report any occurrence of communicable diseases to the Coast
Guard Supervising Medical Officer, and Cooperate with Federal.
State, and Local Agencies for preventing disease reporting
communicable diseases and collecting vital statistics;
- Be familiar with Chapter 3 of the Coast Guard Medical Manual
dealing with Physical Standards for Aviation personnel.
- Perform routine physical examinations in accordance with the
requirements of Chapter 3 of the Coast Guard Medical Manual and
report all findings on Standard Form 88, Report of Medical
Examination and Standard Form 93, Report of Medical History;
- Follow Coast Guard regulations, policies and directives when
arranging appropriate referrals or consults. The contract provider
shall inform the patient of the required referral or consult and
the specialty evolved. The provider shall not recommend to the
patient that he/she consult a specific practitioner or use a
specific practice. The provider shall forward the referral, consult
and the patient to the appropriate clinic staff to process the
request for referral or consult;
- Be familiar with the duties, responsibilities, and limitations
of health service technicians as described in appropriate manuals
and instructions which will be made available upon commencement of
services during clinic orientation;
- Provide on-the-job medical training in clinical treatment for
Health Services School students (at Petaluma only) and clinic
personnel as requested by the Chief of Health Services or the
Clinic Administrator;
- Evaluate and determine each patient's ability to work and
record such determination
in the patient's health record, including an expiration date for
the assigned duty status and specific limitations. The following
statuses apply:
- Fit for Full Duty (FFFD): Patient is not physically restricted
or limited for any job that the Coast Guard might assign to
him/her, regardless of current job assignment.
- Fit for Limited Duty (FFLD): Patient is physically restricted
or limited. Examples are: office work only; no lifting, stooping,
prolonged standing, jumping; no sea duty; etc.
- Not Fit for Duty (NFFD): Patient cannot perform any assigned
tasks regardless of assignment.
- Inform the Senior Coast Guard Medical Officer of any patient
not using or following the prescribed treatment program;
- Report any occurrence of communicable diseases to the Senior
Coast Guard Medical Officer;
- Make a health record entry for every patient the provider sees
in accordance with Chapter 4 of the Coast Guard Medical
Manual.
- Subjective Objective Assessment Plan (S.O.A.P.) format and
other criteria. Update as required by the medical officer each
patient's health record entry a written determination of the
patient's ability to work, including an expiration date for the
assigned duty status, and specific limitations. There may be
special limitations for persons with sea duty or aviation duty
status;
- (depending on workload) be required to take blood pressure,
temperature and all other related duties as required during the
screening of patients;
- (depending on workload) be required to obtain laboratory
specimens as required;
Keywords: Kurz Solutions, Chesapeake , Physician / Pediatrics / North Carolina / Permanent / Aerospace Medicine Physician Job, Healthcare , Elizabeth City, Virginia
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