What are the responsibilities and job description for the Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner - Onsite position at Synergy Health Partners?
Job Description
Job Description
Description :
This is a full-time, on-site role.
Job Summary : The Nurse Practitioner (NP) / Physician Assistant (PA) will provide a wide range of pre, peri, and post-operative care to surgical patients. The NP / PA will participate under the supervising surgeon's direct, general, or personal supervision in the office and hospital settings.
Essential Functions :
- Formulate treatment plans to address clinical issues from patients, office, and hospital staff to include phone, electronic, or face-to-face inquiries
- Perform procedures at various hospital settings under physician supervision (direct / indirect) commensurate with training, experience, and / or credentialing
- Other duties as assigned and requested by surgical team members
- Admitting patients and placing admission orders.
- Performing detailed History & Physicals.
- Performing Consultations.
- Performing Progress notes and inpatient rounding
- Performing outpatient clinic exams
- Discharging patients, placing discharge orders and writing discharge summaries.
- Initial and ongoing assessment of patient's medical, physical and psychosocial status.
- Making appropriate referrals to other health professionals and community agencies.
- Ordering and interpreting diagnostic laboratory tests and diagnostic imaging studies.
- Developing and implementing treatment plans.
- Ordering medications and writing prescriptions by word of mouth, telephone or other means of communication. PAs may prescribe controlled substances with a current DEA.
- Placing perioperative orders.
- Placing transfer orders.
- Performing bedside procedures to include wound debridement, incision and drainage, biopsies etc.
- Complete all documentation within 48 hours of the encounter
- Comply with local billing / coding regulations
- First or second assist for minor and major procedures / surgeries
- Wound care : debridement, irrigation, closure, bandaging
- Repair of lacerations : simple, intermediate, complex
- Nasogastric tube insert / removal
- Urinary bladder catheterization insert / removal
- Venipuncture
- Control of hemorrhage
- Collection of specimens
- Drain removal
- Dye injections
- Local anesthesia
- Removal of foreign bodies
- Wound vac placement and removal
- Electrocardiogram
Requirements : Competencies :
Compensation details : 108000-108000 Yearly Salary
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