Physician Assistant

Narayana Health (NH); Mumbai; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Narayana Health in Mumbai is seeking a Physician Assistant to work under consultant supervision, assisting with new admissions, rounds, and discharge processes. The role emphasizes accurate history taking, charting, and ensuring consultant orders are implemented by nursing staff.

You will monitor patient status, document findings, and coordinate with consultants and teams to maintain smooth patient flow and timely care delivery.

Responsibilities

• Attend new admissions within prescribed time frame.
• Obtain proper patient history from patient or relatives and check previous records.
• Record history details in history sheet and inform the consultant on admission follow-up orders.
• Instruct nursing staff regarding consultant orders and ensure follow-up.
• Review transfer summaries and act according to clinical notes for ICU transfers.
• Identify significant findings and inform the respective consultants.
• Take rounds and examine patients at least once per shift and whenever needed.
• Document notes in the clinical sheet and enter relevant patient details.
• Attend rounds with consultants and implement changes in the order and treatment sheet.
• Transcribe consultant orders to the Medicine Card and Non-Drug Order sheet.
• Document verbal orders accurately in clinical notes and respond to emergency calls.
• Activate code blue if a medical emergency occurs and shift patients to critical care when needed.
• Coordinate pre-operative and post-operative orders and ensure consent checks are completed.
• Prepare discharge summaries in advance as per policy.
• Attend camps and work per organizational policies; fill cross-referral forms as required.
• Maintain complete and accurate medical records with proper sign-off on entries.

Job description

Physician Assistant needs to work in supervision of consultants.

New Admission:

• To attend any new patient (admission) within prescribed time frame
• To examine take a proper history of the patient (If he is in a position to give it on his own) or from his relative.
• Check any previous records, if available.
• Charts down all the details in the history sheet.
• Inform the respective consultant about the admission follow his orders.
• Instruct the nursing staff about the consultant s orders to be carried out.
• If there s a transfer in-patient from the ICU. Read the transfer summary/ clinical notes carefully and act accordingly.
• Inform the respective consultants whenever seems significant.

Shift Duty:

• To take rounds and examine individual patients at least once in every shift and as when needed. Inform the respective consultant/ Registrars if any new findings.
• To put the notes in clinical sheet.
• To enter the relevant details of each and every patient accordingly.
• Attend rounds with the respective consultants and carry out the necessary changes in the order. Enter them in the treatment sheet.
• To transcribe the consultant s order to Medicine Card and Non Drug Order sheet
• To instruct the nursing staff about consultant s orders and follow them up
• To follow up with all the investigations to be seen and trace their results. Note down investigation results in the investigation sheet.
• To Document Verbal Orders correctly in clinical notes if given by consultants.
• To respond to emergency calls and to activate code blue if any medical emergency is encountered beyond your control.
• To identify the critical status of patient and shift him to critical care area in time.
• Always contact primary consultant if found necessary at any point of time.

Discharges:

• Prepare discharge summaries well in advance according to the policy.

Pre Surgical Post Surgical Patients:

• To follow pre-operative orders in the treatment sheet. To check whether the consents (Surgical, Anesthesia, etc) for the surgery has been taken from the patient. If not inform the respective person.
• To get the PAC done. To carry out all the pre-operative orders.
• Inform the consultant over phone during night shift about patient status who are scheduled for surgery next day.
• To attend patients complaints. To calm the patients if they are apprehensive. Inform the consultant if needed.

General:

• To attend camps according to the policy.
• To work as per Policies and procedures of organization.
• To get the cross referral form filled and call cross consultants according to the policy.
• Use capital letters for medicines (Generic Names/ Salt) and always put sign, name, date and time with every entry you make.
• To take care about completeness of records
• To act accordingly as per communicated by hospital management team.

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