Physician Assistant Job Description
Physician Assistant Duties & Responsibilities
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Physician Assistant Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Physician Assistant
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: BLS, ACLS, NCCPA, CPR, ATLS, PALS, AHA, DEA, ORNRP
Education for Physician Assistant
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the physician assistant job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Education, Department of Education, Health, Physician Assistant, Physician Assistant Program, Graduate, Medical, Health Sciences, Health Science, Guidance
Skills for Physician Assistant
Desired skills for physician assistant include:
Desired experience for physician assistant includes:
Physician Assistant Examples
Physician Assistant Job Description
- Exercise clinical competency and expertise in the area of urology
- Functions independently and/or as a member of an interdisciplinary team to plan, deliver, and evaluate health care for a defined patient population
- Collaborates with nursing staff/nursing administration to monitor and evaluate the quality of patient care
- Determines nursing care requirements and develops programs for the urology patient population, with regard to patient condition and age including telephone triage and ongoing follow-up
- Promotes health maintenance that spans the continuum of health from outpatient to inpatient settings and back to the home care arena
- Performs medical diagnostic, therapeutic procedures, and prescribes, dispenses or delivers medications when a collaborative practice agreement is in place
- Conducts independent clinics for other selected urology return patients
- Assists in urology clinics as an examiner
- Provides anticipatory guidance and counseling to patients/families
- Documents patient assessment and plan of care in the medical record and generates appropriate health reports for outgoing correspondence
- Initiates and coordinates referrals to other health care team members or agencies as needed
- OR First Assist to all surgeons
- Daily hospital rounds
- Post-operative patient care
- Office follow-up
- Coordinate activities of the Interventional Radiology division, including pre-procedure and post-procedure patient care, orders and case review
Physician Assistant Job Description
- Responsible for patient education
- Make follow-up telephone calls post-procedure
- Make rounds and write progress notes
- Develop patient education materials related to interventional procedures
- Coordinate outpatient discharge and write orders as needed
- Work closely with radiology residents and fellows
- May function as preceptor for PA/NP professionals
- Provide evaluation and coordination of care for Interventional Radiology patients, including clinic,triage, pre- and post-procedure patient care through collaborative relationships with the IR team
- Serve as a focal point for referrals and provide continuity of care
- Manage Interventional Clinic patients independently, with minimal MD supervision
- Exercise independent judgment in the assessment, diagnosis and initiation of certain delegated Medical processes and treatment for Interventional Radiology patients in the clinic, Prep and Recovery, ED and inpatient units
- See and manage consults
- Pre- and post-procedure order entry
- Provide education and consultation to patients and staff referring service
- Continuous attention to detail is required
- Provide clinical leadership in practice
Physician Assistant Job Description
- Performs minor surgical procedures , but not limited to, digital blocks, wound closure, wound management, wound debridement, incision and drainage, injection of local anesthetics, removal of sutures/staples, removal of PICC lines, and VAC dressing application, cast, and splint applications
- Assists with after-hours telephone call
- Handles discharge planning
- Contributes to physician's effectiveness by identifying short-term and long-range patient care issues that must be addressed
- Ensure all tests are ordered and results are received and documented
- Obtains health histories and performs physical examinations
- Writes prescriptions as needed in accordance with Radiologist supervisor and with scope of his/her practice
- Performs diagnostic and therapeutic procedures based on clinic privileges
- Participates in minimally invasive image-guided procedures with minimal supervision including a venous access service (placement of PICC lines, tunneled and non-tunneled central lines)
- CT biopsy and drainage, myelograms, paracentesis and thoracentesis
- Graduation from an accredited educational program for physician assistants
- Must be licensed as a Physician Assistant in the state in which this work is performed
- Knowledge of principles, practices and techniques associate with the work of a Physician’s Assistant
- Prefer minimum 5 years’ experience as a CVT Surgery PA, but would consider the right candidate who is an experienced PA in a current patient care practice with minimum 3 years’ experience
- State of California Certification as a Physician’s Assistant
- Satisfactory completion of a formal Physician’s Assistant Training Program at an accredited institution
Physician Assistant Job Description
- Follows up post-operatively with in- and outpatients
- Instructs patients and families regarding medications and treatment
- Provides patient education, recommends community resources to meet patient and family needs
- Provides oral and written communication with referring physicians, pharmacists, and home health care agencies as appropriate and arranges follow-up visits and procedures as required
- Maintains skills on current radiologic trends in equipment, materials and treatment devices
- Participates in orienting fellows to the IR service and procedures
- Performs image guided aspiration and injection of joints
- Performs image guided barium studies to check tube placement
- Performs image guided catheter checks and changes
- Performs image guided injections
- Performs image guided lumbar puncture
- Performs image guided central venous catheter placement [tunneled/non-tunneled]
- Performs image guided thoracentesis and pigtail chest tube placement
- Performs image percutaneous abscess and fluid drainage procedures
- Dermatology service providing management of dermatologic care in clinical setting
- Mentor and educate medical students and other trainees as to the needs and issues of dermatology patients and population management
Physician Assistant Job Description
- Document patient assessments and plan of care in the electronic medical record and generate appropriate health reports for outgoing correspondence
- Assure completion of documentation for coding and billing purposes
- Direct and mentor other medical personnel and health professionals in the execution of patient care
- Initiate and coordinate patient referrals to appropriate specialty and subspecialty physicians or other health care providers as indicated by the patients' health condition(s)/diagnosis
- Facilitate the appropriate referral of patients to other health facilities, agencies and resources as appropriate
- Provide guidance and counseling to patients and family members
- Participate in the development, utilization and evaluation of resources to meet patient and family educational needs
- Assure clinical competency and expertise with patients
- Attend Quality and Safety meetings and Committee meetings
- Reviews results from diagnostic testing and evaluations from consultant's to establish a management plan
- Current Physician Assistant License in the State of _KENTUCKY_____________
- Additional languages would be helpful
- Performs initial review interview and assessment of patient
- Reviews diagnostic data
- Helps obtain preoperative surgical consents
- Performs preoperative preparation of patients and reinforces information presented by the attending physician