Physician Asst. Urgent Care - FT

Improving Lives Together

Magruder Hospital offers competitive wages with a comprehensive benefit package available to both full-time and part-time employees. We provide a full health plan and generous time off that includes Holidays, Vacation, Sick, Personal, and even your Birthday! Our culture and family friendly work environment truly set us apart- apply today for an opportunity to join our team and help serve this great community!

Physician Assistant is a health care professional licensed to practice medicine with physician supervision. As part of their comprehensive responsibilities, Physician Assistants in the Urgent Care/Occupational health setting will conduct physical exams, diagnose and treat illnesses, prescribe medication, order and interpret diagnostic test to identify and assess the patient’s clinical diagnosis and health care needs. The Physician Assistant will counsel on preventative health care, educate patients about health promotion, disease prevention, lifestyle modification, and management of chronic disease processes. The Physician Assistant will perform treatments/procedures within their scope of practice.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Participates in and facilitates intraoperative and in-hospital care of patients.

• Is knowledgeable of medical procedures and terminology
• Obtains comprehensive patient histories.
• Performs physical examinations, including audiometry screening, routine visual screening, and pelvic, rectal, and genital-urinary examinations when indicated.
• Initiates, requests and/or performs routine laboratory, radiologic and diagnostic studies as indicated.
• Identifies normal and abnormal findings on histories, physical examinations, and commonly performed initial laboratory studies.
• Reviews health records and assesses medical conditions.
• Assesses patients.
• Develops treatment plans for patients
• Monitors the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions.
• Communicates clearly, medical information to professional practitioners.
• Provides patient education and responds to questions in a tactful and professional manner.
• Screens patients to aid the supervising physician in determining need for further medical attention.
• Performs developmental screening examinations on children as relating to nervous, motor, and mental functions.
• Provides consistent and excellent care.
• Performs care and suturing and removal of sutures of minor lacerations.
• Is knowledgeable of drugs and their indications, contraindications, dosing, and side effects.
• Removes superficial foreign bodies after consultation with the supervising physician and under his direction.
• Is knowledgeable of CPR and emergency medical procedures.
• Reacts calmly and effectively in emergency situations.
• Carries out or relaying the supervising physician’s orders for medication, to the extent permitted under laws pertaining to drugs.
• Performs punch biopsies of superficial lesions.
• Evidences the knowledge and ability to assess and interpret data about the patient’s growth and development in order to identify each patients’ needs and provide the appropriate care, including age-related care, where appropriate
• • Infant
  • Pediatric
  • Adolescence
  • Adult
  • Geriatric
• Maintains relationships with hospital staff and physicians of mutual trust and reliance.
• Works cooperatively with associates, supervisors and subordinates and supports hospital and departmental goals and objectives.
• Communicates effectively with patients, families, physicians, volunteers, co-workers, and all departments of the hospital in a pleasant and respectful style. Represents the hospital in a positive and professional manner.
• Displays good judgment in grooming, speech and personal hygiene. Adheres to appropriate dress codes. Wears required hospital identification badges.
• Attends hospital and departmental in-services and meetings as scheduled.

• Complies with federal, state, and local legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation; anticipating legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements; advising management on needed actions; ensures compliance with Joint Commission and other external and internal regulatory agencies.
• Maintains the integrity of confidential patient information in accordance with HIPAA and hospital policy, including accessing, using and disclosing patient information relevant to the individual employee’s job duties. Also maintains confidentiality of other customer and hospital business affairs.
• Adheres to the standards of Magruder Hospital’s corporate compliance policies and seeks guidance and training when necessary to resolve questions about the policies. Reports violations in accordance with corporate compliance and organizational standards.
• Attendance is an essential function of this position. Reports to work on time and as scheduled; Shows respect for co-workers by following established break times; Keeps personal conversations and telephone calls to a minimum.
• Travel is primarily local during the business day, although some out-of-area and overnight travel may be expected.
• Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

• Other duties as requested or assigned.