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| Changing Specialties Within Clinical Practice: What Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants Should Know |
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by ReachMD XM Radio - Your Career in Healthcare - October 5, 2010
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 Provided by ReachMD
Changing Specialties Within Clinical Practice
on Your Career in Healthcare
Presented by the HealthJobsNationwide.com Network
Sponsored by LocumTenens.com
What does the clinician, especially the NP or PA, considering changing specialties need to know in order to make such a transition? How can continuing education add to a clinician’s skills and marketability? Jay Chamberlain, a physician assistant with a background in vascular surgery and emergency medicine, and the founder of a recruitment and continuing education company, talks with host Tim Rush about how clinician's can more easily make a specialty change into a reality.
Jay Chamberlain is a certified physician assistant and the founder and president of Chamberlain Medical Resources (CMR) Inc., in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, which provides unique CME programs for PAs and NPs. Mr. Chamberlain is a graduate of the Northeastern University PA program in Boston. He holds two master's degrees and continues to practice as a PA. CMR has been producing CME programs for advanced practice clinicians since 2007.
Tim Rush founded Healthcare Staffing Innovations (HSI) out of his passion for developing web-based solutions for staffing the healthcare industry. HSI is dedicated to innovative solutions to staff an industry where there is no room for error. HSI owns and operates the HealthJobsNationwide.com network, an innovative, comprehensive platform of seven robust, interactive career centers providing everything from career opportunities, news and articles, to salary trends and CME offerings. Prior to developing HSI in early 2004, Mr. Rush served as the vice president of corporate development at DDS Staffing Resources and Medical Staffing Resources. He established their advanced practice division and developed AdvancedPracticeJobs.com (the precursor to the entire HealthJobsNationwide.com network), a niche job board dedicated to the employment of advanced practice nurses, nurse managers and physician assistants. Mr. Rush holds a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Shorter College in Rome, Georgia, and completed the Georgia Tech Mid-Management Program at Dupree College of Management in April of 2000. He is currently an active member of the International Association of Employment Job Boards, a corporate member of Staffing Industry Analysts. He is a member of the Georgia Association of Personnel Services "Million Dollar Hall of Fame." Other honors and awards he has received while working in healthcare staffing include the Unsung Hero Award, the High Flyer Award, the Peak Performer Award, the Top Producer Award, the 300K Award and the 200K Award. Mr. Rush resides in Woodstock, Georgia, with his family.
ReachMD, an innovative communications company, provides thought-provoking medical news and information to healthcare practitioners. Established to help increasingly time-constrained medical providers stay abreast of new research, treatment protocols and continuing education requirements, ReachMD delivers innovative and informative radio programming via XM Satellite Radio Channel 160 and online streaming developed by healthcare professionals for healthcare professionals.
The viewpoint expressed in this article is the opinion of the author and is not necessarily the viewpoint of the owners or employees at Healthcare Staffing Innovations, LLC.
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| Nick Vigil (Fort Carson Colo. EACH SRC TBI) |
on 15 Oct 2010 at 2:34 am |
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| Your presentation was very informative and encouraging. It has reemphasize for me how the significance of mid-level provider is a valuable member of the health team, Nursing, Physician, Midlevels, ie. PA & NP. The discussion mentioned NCCPA's sub-specialty recognition and certification. I am a product of the Army PA Program who fortunately practiced WorldWide as a Preventive Medicine and Tactical Advisor to the Command and direct medical spokesman for the Commander. My job also required primary, acute ambulatory and family practice type care to the soldiers and their dependents. On retirement I found myself extending into civilian occupational health, workcomp, acute care and auto accident insurance care. 2003 I returned to the military setting as a Civ Provider PA and 2006 added TBI provider and pyschologial screener for PTSD on our deployed and returning combat forces, for the Dept of Defense. However, only recognized by NCCPA as a Primary Medicine Mid-Level/PA qualified to perform acute or family practice type medicine. Due to this presentation I am motivated to ask NCCPA to add Occupational Health to their list of certification, and for myself look into formal certification as a psychiatric provider/PA which hopefully allow to use this to help Veterans seeking assistance thru the VA system dealing with PTSD. |
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