Physician Assistant

JOB OVERVIEW

Physician Assistants deliver medical care alongside a physician, who oversees their work and provides medical supervision. The services that physician assistants provide may include diagnostic evaluations, therapeutic remediation, surgical assistance, and pharmaceutical prescription.

• Being a team member and leader of the Orthopedic Trauma Service
• Providing excellent patient care
• Serving as a Communicator and Educator for Orthopedic Trauma
• Rounding on Inpatients in the hospital daily
• Seeing Consults in the hospital during working hours
• Assisting in Surgeries
• Patient set up
• Retracting
• Reduction of Fractures
• Wound Closure
• Post op Orders
• Office Responsibilities:
• Triaging/Returning Patient Phone calls regarding questions and concerns
• Refilling Prescriptions
• Clinic:
• Goal is to have PA develop their own clinic to see patients
• 2 sessions a week
• New Patients
• Follow-ups
• 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.

• Monday thru Friday
• AM Hospital Rounding would start @ 6:45 AM
• Post-operative patients
• New Consults
• OR Starts @ 7:30 AM
• Monday, Wednesday, Friday 1:30-5pm

• Physician takes the phone calls from the ER after hours/Weekend when on call
• PA would not be expected to come in to Hospital after hours during the weekday for call.
• PA would be expected to take call with physician on the weekends of his assigned call. Currently:
  One in Five Weekends.
• Weekend Call Duties would Include:
• Assisting in Rounding
• Assisting in Surgery
• Helping to See Consults in the hospital
• Physician would take phone calls from the ER

Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant license to practice in the State of Florida. BLS and/or ACLS required in specific areas. For Nurse Practitioners, certification by the ANCC or AANP is required and for Physician Assistants, NCCPA certification is required.

Must be a graduate of CAAHEP approved university program. NCCPA certification required. Must be licensed/certified or eligible to practice as PA in the State of Florida.

Master's degree in Nursing required. (If licensed prior to 1998, Master's degree not required by the State of Florida.) Must have current Florida Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner (ARNP) license or eligible to obtain Florida license. Certification by the ANCC or AANP in a specialty area required.

Minimum one year PA or APRN experience preferred but not required.

• Comfortable working in fast paced environment.
• Proven work experience as a physician assistant or nurse
• Knowledge of medical guidelines and procedures regarding examination, therapy and recovery
• Familiarity with advancements in medical technology and current know-how
• Problem solving skills and ability to multi-task
• Caring and compassionate
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Dedication to patient care

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential function.

• Specific vision requirements include the ability to see at close range, distance vision,…