ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Patient Care:
- Provide medical care to pediatric, adolescent and adult patients
- Take relevant patient history
- Identify patient needs and make diagnoses
- Perform complete well-care examinations, including complete physicals
- Perform complete gynecological histories and physical examinations as indicated
- Write prescriptions and inform patients about medications prescribed
- Complete medical forms and documentation related to patient care
- Answer patient telephone inquiries as needed
- Make referrals to other agencies and providers, with follow up care provided
- Assist with immunization and phlebotomy as needed to ensure smooth patient flow
- Encourage health promotion, disease prevention, and health maintenance. Provide health education on topics including preventative medicine and counseling on chronic diseases, as well as parenting, prenatal, nutrition, family-planning, medication usage and stress management
- Provide patient advocacy, as appropriate for site
- Work in a supervisory role with mid-levels and collaboratively with specialists for consultation and referral purposes
- Participate in Peer Review process, as defined by The Floating Hospital
- Provide technical assistance and teach Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants
- Maintain ultimate responsibility for directing the course of patient s medical treatment
- Participate in case-conference and case management activities
- Participate in the On-Call list, on a rotation basis
Administrative/Education Duties:
- Participate in quality improvement activities
- Participate and develop medical protocols with Clinical Guidelines Committee, for implementation by TFH staff
- Collaborate with Benefits Counselors and Outreach staff to ensure appropriate patient scheduling and flow
- Collaborate with HIM supervisor to ensure appropriate documentation procedures
- Observe, implement, and promote federal regulations as defined by HIPAA and Policies andProcedures of The Floating Hospital
Nurse Practitioner and Physician Collaborative Agreement:
As part of this job description, the Physician will supervise mid-level practitioners in accordance with the terms of the collaborative agreement.
Environment:
The Physician will perform duties in the clinic and at shelters connected with the agency. The Physician will have rooms in which to provide examinations and will have a workspace in which to perform his/her administrative job functions. The agency observes a no-smoking policy.