Physician Assistant/Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner (PA/CRNP)

The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education; Scranton (Lackawanna County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

The Wright Center for Community Health is seeking a Physician Assistant to provide primary care in our outpatient clinic. The PA will assess and manage patients, educate patients and families, and collaborate with physicians and health-care staff per PA guidelines.

Responsibilities include performing exams, ordering tests, interpreting results, and participating in rotating weekend and holiday coverage. The role requires PA certification (NCCPA), PA license in PA, and DEA registration, with

Qualifications

• Must have PA degree and NCCPA certification.

Responsibilities

• Examine and treat patients.
• Instruct and counsel patients and communicate with health-care staff.
• Interpret and utilize diagnostic test results.
• Make diagnoses and treatment decisions.
• Record medical data and history.
• Order diagnostic tests.
• Prescribe therapy with physician approval.
• Perform injections, immunizations, suturing and wound care.
• Educate patients on prescribed regimens and health maintenance.
• Assist physicians during procedures as needed.
• Visit and observe patients; update charts and report to physician.
• Maintain documents and charts per org policy.
• Commit to 36 hours of patient care per week and 4 hours admin time.
• Achieve no overdue charts >10 days and not more than 100 at month end.
• Participate in weekly call schedule and weekend rotations.
• Cover holidays as required.
• Work extra hours during staff shortages.
• Participate in nursing home rounds as needed.

Skills

EOS model experience

Clear communication with patients and

multitasking

Education

Physician Assistant degree

NCCPA certification

PA license in Pennsylvania

DEA registration

BLS/ACLS/PALS certifications

Medent EHR familiarity

Tools

Medent EHR

Job description

POSITION SUMMARY

A Physician Assistant provides primary care services, including assessing and managing patients in the clinic following established standards and practices of the clinic. The position combines the roles of provider, mentor, educator, researcher and administrator. The Physician Assistant must honor the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Physician Assistant guidelines and ethical standards. The PA must at all times comply with applicable standards and exercise appropriate care to protect confidentiality, privacy and security of patient protected health information. The employee must perform all other duties as assigned.

Job Type

Full-time

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS

This position reports to Director of NP/PA Services. This position has no direct reports.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Examine and treat patients
• Instruct and counsel patients. Communicate clearly and effectively with patients and other health-care workers
• Interpret diagnostic test results including to assess and identify deviations from normal.
• Make and assist with diagnoses and decisions about management and treatment of patients
• Obtain, compile and record patient medical data, including health history, progress notes and results of physical examination
• Order diagnostic tests, such as x-ray, electrocardiogram, and laboratory tests.
• Prescribe therapy or medication, with physician approval as appropriate.
• Perform therapeutic procedures, such as injections (excluding hip joint injections/aspirations), immunizations, suturing and minor/superficial wound care, and infection management
• Instruct and counsel patients about prescribed therapeutic regimens, normal growth and development, family planning, emotional problems of daily living, and health maintenance.
• Provide physicians with assistance during medical procedures as needed.
• Visit and observe patients as needed on hospital rounds or house calls, updating charts, ordering therapy, and reporting back to physician
• Complete documents, charts, triages etc., in accordance with organization’s open document policy
• Commit to thirty-six (36) hours of patient care per week and four (4) hours of administrative time, when there is an adequate number of providers, with the specific schedule to be determined with Medical Director and Practice Manager
• Satisfy expectation of zero charts overdue > 10 days and no more than 100 at end of month
• Participate in weekly call schedule, one-week night per week with physician as backup.
• Participate in Saturday or Sunday rotation (one weekend day per month at TWCCH – MVP)
• Participate in holiday rotation, including to work 1-2 holidays per year
• Work additional hours/days to cover colleague time off and staffing emergencies as needed.
• Participate in nursing home rounds as needed

SUPERVISION

• The duties and tasks will be performed in an outpatient office
• Daily onsite direct and indirect supervision will be provided to the Physician Assistant at the outpatient office; the supervising physician will be at a minimum available to the Physician Assistant via telecommunication; if the supervising physician is not available to the Physician Assistant, a back-up supervising physician, the substitute Physician Assistant supervisor will be identified for the consultation and direction of the PA’s activities.
• The supervising physician will see patients at the request of the PA, the patient, and/or the patient’s family
• The supervising physician will review and sign medical records of the patients cared for by the PA within 10 days

REQUIREMENTS

• Meet The Wright Center for Community Health and its affiliated Enterprise entities’ EOS People Analyzer Tool
• Buy in and experience working in the EOS® model (strongly preferred)
• Mission-oriented; represents the enterprise in a professional manner while demonstrating organizational pride
• Physician Assistant Degree from an accredited educational program for physician assistants
• Certification by NCCPA
• Licensed Physician Assistant in the State of Pennsylvania
• Valid DEA Registration Certificate
• Demonstrated expertise in relevant medical practices, protocol, trends and best practices in clinical areas assigned.
• Demonstrated knowledge and success in effecting overall clinical operations
• Ability to manage multiple responsibilities and emergency situations successfully.
• Proficiency in knowledge of office management, use of computer, software, and office machines
• Familiarity with electronic health records, preferably Medent
• Current BLS, ACLS and PALS certified
• Valid PA driver’s license