SHSMD Career Center

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Assesses patient health by interviewing patients; performing a physical examination; ordering pertinent lab and radiology; obtaining, updating medical records.
• Contributes to physician's effectiveness by identifying short-term and long-range patient care issues that must be addressed; providing information and commentary in pertinent deliberations; recommending options and courses of action; implementing physician directives.
• Counsels and educates patients and their families.
• Creates and sustains a therapeutic and ethically sound relationship with patients.
• Differentiates between the normal and the abnormal in anatomic, physiological, laboratory findings and other diagnostic data.
• Initiates emergency resuscitation and stabilization as necessary and complies with hospital safety regulations and infection control.
• Manages general medical and surgical conditions to include understanding the indications, contraindications, side effects, interactions and adverse reactions of pharmacologic agents and other relevant treatment modalities.
• Orders, alters, or adjusts controlled and non- controlled medications for in hospital patients.
• Participates in performance improvement activities, quality of care initiatives, and research of special projects.
• Performs procedures as identified in delineation of privileges
• Prescribes non-controlled medication for patients.
• Works effectively with physicians and other health care professionals as a member or leader of a health care team or other professional group.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Certification by the National Certification Commission of Physician Assistants
• Continuing Medical Education maintained to specifications of AAPA
• Competent bedside manners.
• Dedicated to the needs of the patient including protecting confidential data.
• Thoroughness in completing tasks and documentation.

(EOE DFW)