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About The Position

Requirements

• Successful completion of an accredited Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner Program
• Current unrestricted or pending Licensure in the state of Michigan
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Commitment to providing compassionate and quality patient-centered care
• Successful completion of a Physician Assistant program
• Licensure as Physician Assistant and state DEA license to prescribe medications
• Current prescriptive authority and collaborative agreement with oversight physician(s) should also be in place
• Must maintain all requirements for medical staff privileges
• Ability to utilize word processing, spreadsheet, presentation programs, and other software relevant to the job
• Regularly communicates clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing (Utilizing SBAR technique)
• Communicates with internal customers such as, physicians, multi-disciplinary team, finance, management and external customers such as, patients, third party payers, community agencies on a daily basis and often simultaneously

Nice To Haves

• Ideal candidate will have experience in primary care and internal medicine

Responsibilities

• Performs comprehensive and problem focused histories and physical examinations, interprets laboratory and radiologic tests.
• Interprets and correlates subjective and objective patient data, formulating a diagnosis.
• Under the direction of the physician, reviews patient findings and develops a treatment plan within the scope of practice.
• Performs above activities in the outpatient and inpatient settings.
• Employees providing direct patient care must demonstrate competencies specific to the population served.
• Concurrent Clinical Management: Coordinates care with the multi-disciplinary team to facilitate implementation of patients’ progress towards outcomes, which includes discharge or transfer of care. Acts as a clinical resource for the multi-disciplinary team.
• Utilization Review: Performs an initial comprehensive assessment of the patient to determine if the patient requires a higher intensity of service and requires transfer to a hospital setting.
• Clinical Management: Evaluate and appropriately manage patients.
• Evaluate lab, EKG, imaging studies
• Complete appropriate documentation necessary to support: Billing, Medical care, Orders, Progress Notes
• Be available for any nursing questions or to evaluated status changes for patients

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with Annual Quality Incentives
• Comprehensive benefits package
• CME Stipend
• Sign On Bonus