(Immediately Hiring) FNP Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
Job Responsibilities:
- Promotes and maintains patient health by providing medical services under the supervision of a physician.
- Contributes to a physician's efficiency by identifying short-term and long-range patient care issues.
- Recommends options and courses of action for patient care.
- Implements physician directives.
- Assesses patient health by interviewing patients and performing physical examinations including obtaining, updating, and studying medical histories.
- Determines abnormal conditions by administering or ordering diagnostic tests, such as X-rays and laboratory studies, and interpreting test results.
- Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
- Performs therapeutic procedures by administering injections and immunizations, suturing, and managing wounds and infections.
- Instructs and counsels patients by providing normal growth and development information and providing counseling on emotional problems of daily living.
- Provides a community of care by developing and implementing patient-management plans.
- Maintains a safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
- Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols. Complies with federal, state, and local legal and professional requirements by studying existing and new legislation; anticipating future legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements, and advising management on needed actions.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.
- Develops health care team staff by providing information, educational opportunities, and experimental growth opportunities.
Work Hours: 10 AM-7 PM. Monday-Friday
Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner Skills and Qualifications:
- Excellent communication skills
- Health promotion and maintenance
- Thoroughness
- Clinical skills
- Informing others
- Medical teamwork
- Physiological knowledge
- Bedside manner
- Infection control
- Administering medication
- Pain management
- Self-development
- Clinical skills
- Trigger point injections
- Knee injections
- X-Rays
- X-Ray Reading
- Suturing
- Must be able to guide others (i.e. training and development
Physician Assistant Education and Experience Requirements:
- Must hold current license/registration to practice
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Must have the ability to exercise sound judgment and discretion
- Ability to maintain highly confidential information
- Master's Degree in Nursing or BSc/MA in Physician Assistant Studies, Health Science or Medical Science.
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