Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

Full-time position under the direction and review of a physician.

About the role

The Physician Assistant provides patient care requiring the performance of general medical services in conformance with professional standards and regulations. Demonstrates skills and knowledge necessary to assure assessment, treatment, and care is appropriate to the age of the patients served.

• Conducts clinical assessment of patients’ health care status and needs and provides patient care to facilitate expected patient outcomes.
• Triages emergency walk-in patients.
• Assesses patients for pre-operative clearance.
• Provides counseling and education to patients in order to enhance patient care.
• Documents care provided in order to support the continuity of patient care and optimum patient outcomes.
• Performs other duties within job scope as requested.

Requirements

Licensure / Certification / Registration

• Hold a current, valid and unlimited license as a Physician Assistant in the State of Georgia.
• Be competently and adequately trained to provide services.
• Not be, and at no time has been, excluded from participation in any federally-funded health care program, including Medicare or Medicaid.
• Remain insurable for and maintain professional liability insurance at rates reasonably equivalent to those available with respect to other Physician Assistant employees of Hospital.

Education

• Completion of a Master's degree from an accredited physician assistant program.