Under clinical supervision of a physician and direct supervision of the Manager-Director, the Physician Assistant provides general medical care, treatment, and health care services to patients within the scope of their licensure and expertise level of the supervising physician.
Essential Job Functions • Supports and models behaviors consistent with the mission and philosophy of Billings Clinic and department service. • Examines patients and performs comprehensive physical examination, compiles patient medical data, including health history and results of physical examination. • Administers or orders diagnostic tests such as x-ray, laboratory, and other ancillary services as appropriate and differentiates between normal and abnormal information contained in the test results.
Patient Care • Performs therapeutic procedures such as injections, immunizations, suturing, wound care, and managing infections within the scope of their licensure and the expertise level of the supervising physician. • Formulates diagnosis of medical problem, develops, implements, and monitors patient care plans, records progress notes, and assists in the provision of continuity of care, conferring with the supervising physician as necessary and/or appropriate. • Instructs and counsels patients and families regarding compliance with prescribed therapeutic regimens. • Refers patients to other health care providers and appropriate sources of care as necessary.
Diagnostic Tests and Procedures • Performs diagnostic tests such as x-ray, laboratory, and other ancillary services as appropriate and differentiates between normal and abnormal information contained in the test results. • Performs therapeutic procedures such as injections, immunizations, suturing, wound care, and managing infections within the scope of their licensure and the expertise level of the supervising physician.
Additional Responsibilities • Participates in on-call rotations and off-hour rounding as it pertains to the specific department. • Identifies needs and sets goals for own growth and development, meets all mandatory organizational and departmental requirements, acquires knowledge and skills essential to incorporating into practice proven new evaluation, treatment modalities. • Utilizes performance improvement principles to assess and improve quality, participates in the continued program development and marketing of service line. • Maintains competency in all organizational, departmental, and outside agency environmental, employee, or patient safety standards relevant to job performance.
Additional Duties for PANP - ED Locums and Rural CAHRHC • Provides relief coverage in the emergency department and assists the physicians in all aspects of care in the emergency department. • Maintains appropriate theoretical and clinical skills with application and patient relevance of commonly utilized equipment specific to the emergency department needs and other areas as appropriate, pharmacological application, application of laboratory values and radiologic findings with disease process or physiological status. • Performs wound exposure, suturing, hemostasis, and tissue handling procedures as training and skill level allows under the direct supervision of the physician.