Physician Assistant

PSN Services•Plano, TX

12d

About The Position

The Physician Assistant (PA) provides health care services to inpatients under the direction of a physician. PAs are academically and clinically trained to perform many routine but time-consuming tasks that physicians usually do, and are accountable for their own actions as well as to their supervising physicians. The role mainly involves seeing inpatient consults, rounding, and assisting in the operating room during regular business hours. If time permits, the PA may help with clinic tasks during regular business hours. Hospital weekend call is optional and compensated in addition to the salary.

Requirements

Complete a four-year physician assistant baccalaureate program and one year of clinical training, or complete a two-year accredited physician assistant program (requiring two years of undergraduate study) plus two years of clinical training after the PA program.
State accreditation based on a certifying examination.
Maintain continued employment requirements of 100 hours of continuing medical education every two years and passing a recertification examination every six years.
Demonstrated competency in caring for neonates, infants, children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric patients.

Responsibilities

Examine patients, take medical histories, record results, make preliminary diagnoses, and help develop plans of care and treatment.
Administer and order diagnostic tests, including x-rays, MRIs, CTs, and blood work, and interpret test results.
Perform therapeutic procedures such as suturing and wound care, provide medical management, and assist in the operating room.
Use professional judgment to consult supervising physicians about appropriate treatment.
Develop and implement patient care plans, instruct and counsel patients, and record progress.
Prescribe medications to the extent allowed by state guidelines and clinic regulations.
Assist physicians with emergency treatments and more complex procedures.
See inpatient consults and round during regular business hours; help with clinic tasks if time permits.
Optionally provide hospital weekend call, with additional compensation.