PA-C or APRN (Emergency Department) Full-Time 6pm-6am, (variable weekends & holidays)

About the Role

The Physician Assistant is responsible for providing medical and/or emergency services, including assessing and managing patients in the emergency department, hospital, outpatient, and clinic settings following established standards and best practices. The PA-C will practice within their scope and privileges as stated in the PA-C's credentialing file.

Responsibilities

• Takes complete, detailed, and accurate patient history.
• Reviews patient records to develop comprehensive medical status reports and orders diagnostic testing appropriate for the complaint, age, race, sex, and physical condition of the patient.
• Performs complete physical examinations and records pertinent data in the patient's medical record.
• Makes medical diagnoses and institutes therapy or referrals to healthcare facilities and other resources.
• Arranges hospital admissions and discharges, performs hospital rounds, and records appropriate patient progress notes.
• Compiles detailed narrative and case summaries, completes forms pertinent to patients' medical records, and issues diagnostic orders with timely signatures in accordance with clinic and hospital guidelines and payer requirements.
• Interprets and evaluates patient data to determine patient management and treatment.
• Provides patient teaching instructions and guidance regarding follow-up medical care.
• Performs or assists in routine laboratory medical techniques, routine therapeutic procedures, and some surgical procedures.
• Maintains records of appropriate signatures for clinical oversight.
• Participates in organizational teams and committees for process improvement.
• Provides medical care to all patients within the PA-C's scope of practice and privileges as outlined in the credentialing and privileges file.
• For PA-Cs assigned to the Emergency Department:
  • Assesses and manages patients presenting to the emergency department during their shift and communicates with the on-call physician for the Emergency Department as necessary.
  • Consults with on-call physician as outlined in Mid-Level Provider (PA-C/Nurse Practitioner) Management of Emergency Situations.
  • Responds to Rapid Response and Code Team activations as available.
  • Supervises cardiac stress testing.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.
• Frequently required to sit, stand, and walk.
• Occasionally required to reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, climb or balance, and taste or smell.
• Must frequently lift and/or move up to 40 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• Frequently works near moving mechanical parts and is exposed to fumes or airborne particles and risk of electrical shock.
• Occasionally works with explosive, toxic, or caustic chemicals.
• Moderate noise level in the work environment.
• Level of risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens is Classification (I), as outlined in the Hepatitis B Vaccine Program Policy.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree in Physician Assistant Studies from an accredited university.

Qualifications

• Currently certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.
• Current Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) certification.
• Current BLS certification.
• Current ACLS certification.
• Current PALS certification (if assignment includes Emergency Department coverage).
• Current NRP certification (if assignment includes Emergency Department coverage).
• Current ATLS certification (if assignment includes Emergency Department coverage).