Critical Care Resident Physician Assistant

Job Description
General Summary
This role provides a program graduate with a one year post-graduate training opportunity. Learns to provide comprehensive health care to a specific patient population in collaboration with medical staff. Follows established applicable nursing and medical standards, procedures and practices, and gives specific patient care directions to nursing and other support staff. Patients served include adolescent through adult-older adult.
Principal Responsibilities and Tasks
The following statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. These are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by personnel so classified.
Attend all assigned didactic, educational, and simulation activities.
Complete an evidence-based research project including local presentation or publication.
Trained to perform medical examinations and evaluations, diagnoses, treatment, follow-up, consultations and health education appropriate for the patient’s age and situation.
Trained to obtain patient histories and develops patient care charges, ensuring completeness and accuracy of documentation.
Trained to order, obtain and interpret appropriate diagnostic tests.
Trained to design, order and document appropriate treatment plans/plans of care including prescriptions of medications based on a comprehensive review of HPI and diagnostic results.
Trained to communicate plan of care with appropriate providers including the collaborative physician or advanced practice provider (ex. nurse practitioner or physician assistant), the primary care provider, the referring provider, the nursing staff, and the case manager.
Trained to communicate plan of care with the patients and family members. Trained to provide patient and family instruction related to the plan of care, disease process, new treatment plans, and medication regimens.
Trained to provide medical care for ill and injured patients in accordance with accepted standards of care.
Trained to provide health education to patients and families as required and appropriate.
Trained to document medical findings and care provided in the patient’s clinical record, including information of laboratory and radiographic studies.
Trained to teach health maintenance procedures and provide educational resources to patients as needed.
Trained to collaborate with physician or other health care team members regarding patients’ health needs, outcomes and effectiveness of care plan.
Trained to initiate appropriate contact with other health care providers as required.
Maintains the privacy and security of all confidential and protected health information. Uses and discloses only that information which is necessary to perform the function of the job.