Physician Assistant Job Description
Physician assistant
provides care within the scope of practice as outlined by state law, licensing, regulations, institutional policy, and practice agreements.
Physician Assistant Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective physician assistant job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included physician assistant job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Participate in quality improvement and research projects
IND's
Incision and drainage
Laceration repair
Splitting and antibiotics
ER Ultrasounds
IV's
Provide diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive health care services for patients in collaboration with or under the clinical supervision of a physician
Perform patient evaluations, interpretations, and diagnoses
Prescribe appropriate medical and therapeutic measures
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:
Demonstrating interest
Research
Principles of growth and development over the life span
How it affects practice and who/what resources are available to assist with evidence based practice by asking questions
Organizations Core Values and incorporates them into the performance of responsibilities
Participating in journal clubs
Health care policy and societal factors affecting the delivery of care
Reimbursement procedures and documentation requirements
Common diagnostic tests
Desired experience for physician assistant includes:
Adjust patient care plan by reviewing and monitoring treatments and therapy plans
Prepare, dictate and sign patient care plans and summaries of patient care
Maintain records according to established standards and guidelines
Counsel, instruct and educate patients on physical and mental health
Treat Workers Compensation patients
Perform DOT (Department of Transportation) physicals
Physician Assistant Examples
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Physician Assistant Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a physician assistant. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for physician assistant
- 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
Qualifications for physician assistant
- 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
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a physician assistant. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for physician assistant
- 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
Qualifications for physician assistant
- 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
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Our company is looking to fill the role of physician assistant. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for physician assistant
- 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
Qualifications for physician assistant
- 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
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Our company is hiring for a physician assistant. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for physician assistant
- 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
Qualifications for physician assistant
- 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
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a physician assistant. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for physician assistant
- 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
Qualifications for physician assistant
- 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