Physician Assistant, OBGYN Services, Wilmington and Newark, DE

Christiana Care Health Services•Newark, DE

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

ChristianaCare is now accepting candidates for a Physician Assistant to join the inpatient OBGYN Physician Assistants Group as part of OB/GYN Services. This is a Full-Time Day/Evening position with 10-hour days, requiring weekend rounding and call. The role provides services at Wilmington Hospital, Wilmington, DE, and Christiana Hospital, Newark, DE. ChristianaCare is a not-for-profit health system with a mission of service, believing that great healthcare is built on partnerships with patients and their families, creating effective, affordable, and valuable systems of care. The organization values physician engagement and the relationship between physicians, staff, and the community. The ChristianaCare Way is their promise: “We serve our neighbors as respectful, expert, caring partners in health. We do this by creating innovative, effective, affordable systems of care that our neighbors value.”

Requirements

Licensure or license eligible for Delaware
NCCPA Certification
BLS, ACLS, NRP, OBIS training for EFM

Nice To Haves

US in OB/GYN

Responsibilities

Admit patients on behalf of the supervising physician
Complete history and physicals
Developing treatment plans
Making rounds at the direction of the supervising physician
Recording of progress notes
Ordering, assessing and interpreting diagnostic tests, and therapeutic modalities, such as medications, treatments and examinations
Initiating referral to appropriate physician or other healthcare professional
Instructing, educating, and counseling patients and families concerning health status, disease process, and discharge planning
Discharge planning
Obtaining consents for procedures for which privileges are held
IV placement, blood draws, injections, dressing changes, OB and GYN procedures, wound closures, removal of sutures, debridement of wound infections, removal of foreign bodies
Biopsy (cervical, endometrial, skin, vaginal, vulvar), cystoscopy, Pelvic floor training, pessary insertion and removal, Provider performed microscopy (urine, KOH, Wet Prep), AROM, BPP, Circumcision of Newborn, colposcopy, Fetal Scalp Electrode Placement, Hysterosalpingogram, Insertion of Foley bulb for induction, insertion and removal of subdermal contraception, IUD placement, Intrauterine Pressure Catheter Placement, Ultrasound
Surgery first and second assist in the operating room including but not limited to Davinci robotics, laparoscopic, and open procedures as well as cesarean sections.