Full-Time
Physician Assistant
POSITION SUMMARY
Support the doctors’ work and actively facilitate patients’ recovery. You will apply medical techniques and principles under the direction of a physician and you will deal with a diverse set of patients offering them care and encouragement.
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ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily, these include but are not limited to the following. Other functions may be assigned, and management retains the right to add or change the duties at any time. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Essential Functions:
Promotes and maintains patient health by providing medical services under the supervision of a physician.
Contributes to a physician’s efficiency by identifying short-term and long-range patient care issues.
Recommends options and courses of action for patient care.
Implements physician directives.
Assesses patient health by interviewing patients and performing physical examination including obtaining, updating, and studying medical histories.
Determines abnormal conditions by administering or ordering diagnostic tests, such as X-rays and laboratory studies and interpreting test results.
Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
Performs therapeutic procedures by administering injections and immunizations, suturing, and managing wounds and infections.
Instructs and counsels patients by providing normal growth and development information and providing counseling on emotional problems of daily living.
Provides community of care by developing and implementing patient-management plans.
Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols. Complies with federal, state, and local legal and professional requirements by studying existing and new legislation; anticipating future legislation; and enforcing adherence to requirements and advising management on needed actions.
Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.
Develops health care team staff by providing information, educational opportunities, and experimental growth opportunities.
Promotes and maintains patient health by providing medical services under the supervision of a physician.
Contributes to a physician’s efficiency by identifying short-term and long-range patient care issues.
Recommends options and courses of action for patient care.
Implements physician directives.
SKILLS & ABILITIES
Education and Experience:
Graduate from an ARC-PA accredited physician assistant program
State license
BLS certification
National Provider Identifier (NPI)
Computer Skills: Ability to use computers and office software, business office machines, tools, equipment as necessary to perform job duties. Experience with Electronic Medical Records and maintaining medical records for all patients.
Other Requirements:
Excellent communication skills
Health promotion and maintenance
Thoroughness
Clinical skills
Informing others
Medical teamwork
Physiological knowledge
Bedside manner
Infection control
Administering medication
Pain management
Self-development
Clinical skills
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
Individual may be required to sit for extended periods of time with occasional standing or walking.
Frequent use of fine motor skills to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls and ability to reach with hands and arms on a regular basis
Intermittently required to lift objects weighing up to 20 pounds
Consistently required to talk, hear, and/or speak
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus along with the ability to read, analyze, and interpret procedures and/or instructions
Some assignments may require ability to have or arrange for dependable means of transportation to other clinic locations, meetings, or community events
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Work is performed primarily in office, individual owned and insured vehicles, and outdoor settings, in all weather conditions, including temperature extremes, during day and night shifts. Work is often performed in emergency and stressful situations. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet in office settings and moderate in other situations.