Physician Assistant (Primary Care)
Location: Goose Creek South Carolina
Description: Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration is currently seeking to employ Physician Assistant (Primary Care) right now, this vacancy will be placed in South Carolina. For complete informations about this vacancy opportunity kindly see the descriptions. Duties:
As the Primary Care Physician Assistant, you will function as a member of a medical team and serve as a highly skilled expert who provides medical management of patients with a variety of medical problems/conditions. You will assist physicians in the clinic by evaluating new and follow-up patients, performing histories and physical exams, ordering ancillary tests, providing new patient education, making telephone calls, writing prescrip! tions, interpreting and managing lab results, and coordinating! operating room schedules. Major duties and responsibilities include:
- Perform preventive medicine examinations, treatments, tests or modalities to include physical examinations and the administration or supervision of immunizations.
- Manage common medical problems encountered in Primary Care settings, including all age-specific medical problems.
- Perform patient education, preoperative and postoperative teaching, obtain medical clearance, and provide long-term follow-up care.
- Manage stable, chronic medical conditions (asthma, CAD, COPD, diabetes mellitus types I and II, etc.). Unstable conditions warrant notification of the MD.
- Prescribe all necessary medications within the pharmacy guidelines, excluding narcotics.
- Manage patients who are receiving short or long term anticoagulant treatment.
- Initiate consultations with medical specialists (surgeons, internists, psychiatrists and other specialties). Education individuals or groups about appropriate health maintenance topics (danger of self-harm in a patient, diabetic foot care, smoking cessation, etc.)
- Provide initial emergency care as appropriate for life-threatening emergencies (BLS, trauma management)
- Collect specimens for pathologic examination.
- Analyze and interpret data, diagnoses, create problem lists and establish plans for the management of health care.
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If you were eligible to this vacancy, please email us your resume, with salary requirements and a resume to Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration.
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This vacanc! y starts available on: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 07:! 31:00 GMT
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