Physician Assistant/Nurse Practitioner (PA/CRNP)

A Physician Assistant/Nurse Practitioner provides primary care services, including assessing and managing patients in the clinic following established standards and practices of the clinic.

Requirements

• Examine and treat patients.
• Instruct and counsel patients.
• Communicate clearly and effectively with patients and other health-care workers.
• Interpret diagnostic test results including to assess and identify deviations from normal.
• Make and assist with diagnoses and decisions about management and treatment of patients.
• Obtain, compile and record patient medical data, including health history, progress notes and results of physical examination.
• Order diagnostic tests, such as x-ray, electrocardiogram, and laboratory tests.
• Prescribe therapy or medication, with physician approval as appropriate.
• Perform therapeutic procedures, such as injections (excluding hip joint injections/aspirations), immunizations, suturing and minor/superficial wound care, and infection management.
• Instruct and counsel patients about prescribed therapeutic regimens, normal growth and development, family planning, emotional problems of daily living, and health maintenance.
• Provide physicians with assistance during medical procedures as needed.
• Visit and observe patients as needed on hospital rounds or house calls, updating charts, ordering therapy, and reporting back to physician.
• Complete documents, charts, triages etc., in accordance with organization’s open document policy.
• Commit to thirty-six (36) hours of patient care per week and four (4) hours of administrative time, when there is an adequate number of providers, with the specific schedule to be determined with Medical Director and Practice Manager.
• Satisfy expectation of zero charts overdue > 10 days and no more than 100 at end of month.
• Participate in weekly call schedule, one-week night per week with physician as backup.
• Participate in Saturday or Sunday rotation (one weekend day per month at TWCCH – MVP).
• Participate in holiday rotation, including to work 1-2 holidays per year (with use of a floating day off within 60 days).
• Work additional hours/days to cover colleague time off and staffing emergencies as needed.
• Participate in nursing home rounds as needed.