Description:
Job Summary:
The Physician Assistant (PA) or Nurse Practitioner (NP) will provide a wide range of pre, peri, and post-operative care to orthopedic surgical patients. The PA or NP will participate under the supervising surgeon's direct, general, or personal supervision in the office and hospital settings.
Essential Functions:
- Formulate treatment plans to address clinical issues from patients, office, and hospital staff to include phone, electronic, or face-to-face inquiries
- Application of cast and splinting
- Perform procedures at various hospital settings under physician supervision (direct/indirect) commensurate with training, experience, and/or credentialing
- Other duties as assigned and requested by surgical team members
- Admitting patients and placing admission orders.
- Performing detailed History & Physicals.
- Performing Consultations.
- Performing Progress notes and inpatient rounding
- Performing outpatient clinic exams
- Discharging patients, placing discharge orders and writing discharge summaries.
- Initial and ongoing assessment of patient's medical, physical and psychosocial status.
- Making appropriate referrals to other health professionals and community agencies.
- Ordering and interpreting diagnostic laboratory tests and diagnostic imaging studies.
- Developing and implementing treatment plans.
- Ordering medications and writing prescriptions by word of mouth, telephone or other means of communication. PAs may prescribe controlled substances with a current DEA.
- Placing peri operative orders.
- Placing transfer orders.
- Performing bedside procedures to include wound debridement, incision and drainage, biopsies etc.
- Complete all documentation within 48 hours of the encounter
- Comply with local billing/coding regulations
- First or second assist for minor and major procedures/surgeries
- Wound care: debridement, irrigation, closure, bandaging
- Repair of lacerations: simple, intermediate, complex
- Other clinical procedures and duties as requested
Requirements:
Competencies:
- Working knowledge of medical terminology
- Good phone skills; Excellent Customer Service
- Organized; sets priorities, and able to multi-task
- Baccalaureate Degree or higher in Physician Assistant -Studies or related degree
- Completion of an APAP-approved program with 60 hours of didactical training in pharmacology
- Current PA licensure. Current certification by the National Commission on the Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
- 1-3 years of surgery experience or completion of a PA surgical residency program
- Must have a high level of interpersonal skills to handle sensitive and confidential situations
Compensation details: 00 Yearly Salary
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