Physician - Pediatrician or Family Practice

Company Overview

Contentnea Health is a Community Health Center providing comprehensive medical, dental and behavioral health services for members of our communities in Greene, Pitt and Pamlico counties in eastern North Carolina.

Job Summary

Practices outpatient medicine.

Responsibilities: and Duties

• 1.
• Practices medical care for each patient visit.
• 1.
• Completes pertinent history and physical exam.
• 2.
• Documents chief complaint, history of present illness, pertinent review of systems, and physical exam in electronic health record (“EHR”).
• 3.
• Reviews and updates past medical history, family history, social history, medications, and allergies in EHR.
• 4.
• Reviews vital signs.
• 5.
• Reviews results and reports from prior orders.
• 6.
• Places new orders.
• 7.
• Performs and documents procedures.
• 8.
• Administers medications and immunizations.
• 9.
• Determines and documents assessment and plan.
• 10.
• Prescribes medications.
• 11.
• Provides patient education, guidance, and counseling.
• 12.
• Arranges plan for follow-up.
• 13.
• Signs EHR encounter within timelines in established policies and procedures.
• 14.
• Responds to related patient questions or needs which arise following encounter.
• 15.
• Adheres to established scheduling templates in provision of patient care.

• 2.
• Participates in quality metrics directives and departmental quality improvement (QI) projects.
• 1.
• Attends practitioners’ meetings regularly.
• 2.
• Attends clinical site meetings regularly.
• 3.
• Attends practice-wide meetings regularly.