Provides patient care services, including assessing and managing patients in the outpatient environment, by following established standards and practices within the practice specific specialty.
Education
- Minimum: Graduate of a Physician Assistant Program accredited by the
- Accreditation
- Review
- Commission on
- Education
- Preferred: N/A
Registration/Certification/Licensure
Current PA Physician Assistant license, certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA), Healthcare Provider CPR, and Act 33/73 clearances. Individual must meet the credentialing requirements of the Medical Staff Office.
Experience
- Minimum:
- None
- Preferred: One year experience working as a Physician Assistant.
Other Requirements: N/A
Status: Exempt
Physical Requirements
- The following frequency definitions apply to all
- Physical
- Requirements unless otherwise noted:
- Occasional: (0-1/3 of day , 0 - 2.5 hrs/day, 1 - 4 reps/hr)
- Frequent: (1/3 -2/3 of day , 2.5 - 5.5 hrs/day, 5 -24 reps/hr)
- Constant: (> 2/3rd of day , > 5.5 hrs/day, > 24 reps/hr)
- NOTE: An asterisk (*) indicates that the item is an essential function.
- Non-Material Handling
- Standing - Remaining on one's feet in an upright position remaining stationary - FREQUENT
- Walking - Remaining upright on one's feet, and moving about - FREQUENT
- Sitting - Body remains in a seated position - FREQUENT
- Stooping - To bend the body downward and forward by bending the spine at the waist - OCCASIONAL
- Bending - To flex the upper body forward - OCCASIONAL
- Twisting - To rotate the upper body forward - OCCASIONAL
- Climbing - To move the body in any direction on equipment or structures that do not include stairs or ladders - N/A
- Ladders - To ascend and descend ladders - N/A
- Stairs - To ascend and descend stairs - OCCASIONAL
- Kneeling - To move the body downwards and come to rest on both hands and both knees - OCCASIONAL
- Squatting - To move the body downwards by bending both knees - OCCASIONAL
- Crouching - To bend the body forward and downward by bending the spine and the legs - OCCASIONAL
- Crawling - To move the body forward or backwards on hands and knees - N/A
- Reaching Horizontal - To extend the arms and hands outward, remaining under shoulder height - FREQUENT
- Reaching Overhead - To extend the arms and hands up and out over shoulder height - OCCASSIONAL
- Grasping - Using functional gripping of the hand to handle an object - FREQUENT
- Finger Manipulation - To manipulate objects with the use of fingers - FREQUENT
- Seeing - Using visual feedback to accomplish a task or activity - CONSTANT
- Hearing - Using sound feedback to accomplish a task or activity - CONSTANT
- Repetitive Upper Extremity Use - Using the arms and/or hands continuously or more than 2/3 of the total time - CONSTANT
- Repetitive Lower Extremity Use - Using the legs and/or feet continuously or more than 2/3 of the total time - FREQUENT
Met Level: Examples of similar activity intensity
Sedentary to Light
0 - 3.5
Light house cleaning, washing dishes, serving food, food shopping, sitting, standing, computer work.
Medium
3.6 - 6.3
House work (mopping, scrubbing), health club exercising, treadmill work, stretching, yoga, walk/run-play with children, aerobic class, dancing, carrying bucket/wood, auto body repair, shoveling snow, golf (carrying clubs).
Heavy to Very Heavy
> 6.4
- Calisthenics (push up, pull up, sit up, vigorous effort), carrying groceries upstairs, shoveling coal, bailing hay, fire fighting, sawing by hand, splitting wood.
- As relates to this position:
- Sedentary to Light - CONSTANT
- Medium - FREQUENT
- Heavy to Very Heavy - OCCASIONAL
I. Specific Job Responsibilities (Essential Functions)
- Manages day-to-day in and out patient care in conjunction with supervising physicians.
- Provides patient and or family with information regarding treatment or procedures, condition and expectation during illness or recovery. Provides patient education/counseling and instruction regarding common patient problems.
- Formulates differential diagnoses by priority considering multiple potential mechanisms causing complex acute, critical, and chronic illness states.
- Demonstrates effective verbal, nonverbal, and written communication skills, including documentation according to established standards while maintaining patient confidentiality.
- Displays commitment to expanding his/her knowledge base and views this as a continuous process to maintain professional and personal growth.
II. Organizational Responsibilities
- Completed mandatory education, annual competencies and department specific education within established timeframes.
- Completed annual employee health requirements within established timeframes.
- Maintained license/certification, registration in good standing throughout fiscal year.
- Consistently utilizes appropriate universal precautions, protective equipment, and ergonomic techniques to protect patient and self. Identifies and works to reduce potentially unsafe patient care or other safety practices.
- Adheres to regulatory agency requirements, survey process and compliance.
