Physician Assistant - Hospitalist Service
Job description
Physician Assistant - Hospitalist Service
- (3243814)
The Physician Assistant (PA) of the Hospitalist Service at Newton-Wellesley Hospital supports the inpatient medicine service in providing high-quality care, efficient in an innovative, team-based approach both in the Observation Unit as well as on the regular medical floors. The responsibilities of the PA include managing all aspects of a patient’s care from admission to discharge. The PA provides appropriate counseling to patients and their families. In addition, the PA will collaborate with other providers to perform critical functions including cross-covering inpatient adult medicine and Observation Unit patients and triaging patients who require admission to the Observation Unit and the Hospitalist Service.
- Overview
The PA will support physicians, collaborate with consultants, nurses, case managers, rehab providers, and others to provide high-quality, efficient care for Hospitalist Service and Observation Unit patients.
- Position Background
- The PA will function in different capacities including providing clinical care in the Observation Unit and the regular medical floors, cross-covering non-housestaff patients and triaging patients who require admission to the Observation Unit or the Hospitalist Service.
- The Physician Assistant will follow a rotating shift schedule including day, evening, and likely overnight.
- Responsibilities
- Care for patients to the Observation Unit and the regular med/surg floors, including:
- Complete initial patient evaluations, inclusive of obtaining a history, completing medication reconciliation, performing an exam, reviewing diagnostic testing, and documenting an H&P as well as entry of admission orders
- Monitor patient progress and coordinate treatment plan with supervising attending, consultants, as well as providers in other disciplines
- Document subsequent encounter through completion of progress notes
- Perform procedures in accordance with clinical privileges
- Discharge the patient from the hospital, including:
- Performing discharge medication reconciliation
- Coordinating discharge care plan, including follow-up with Primary Care Provider and/or subspecialist as needed to ensure safe care transitions
- Provide education to patients, and family members, regarding their illness, medications, nutrition, diagnostic tests, procedures, care plan, and post-discharge care
- Triage patients from NWH ED as well from outside hospitals
- Collaborate with nurses, hospitalists, and other providers to accept patients, as appropriate, from NWH ED, outside hospital EDs, and outpatient clinics
- Communicate with accepting providers to ensure a smooth transition.
- Cross-cover non-housestaff patients during evening hours and overnight
- Participate in Observation Unit, hospital medicine and hospital-wide process improvement, quality and safety projects
- Assist in quality assurance, quality and process improvement and patient safety initiatives within the Hospital
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Supervision
- A Hospitalist Attending Physician will serve as the Supervising Physician
- A Hospitalist Attending Physician in the Division of Adult Inpatient Medicine (Hospitalist Service) will support the Hospitalist PA, as appropriate, with patient triage, admission, discharge, and cross-cover and will attend rapid responses
- A Hospitalist Attending will supervise the Hospitalist PA’s work in relation to his/her role as a team member in the Hospitalist Service and Observation Unit
- Attributes:
- Compassionate, warm and patient-centered
- Critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to gain appropriate autonomy over time and, with experience, work with minimal supervision
- Exceptional documentation skills and professional behavior
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Effective collaborator with providers across disciplines
Innovative, flexible, adaptable
- Master’s Degree from a Physician Assistant program approved by the Commission of Accreditation of Allied Health Education Program (CAAHEP)
- Current licensure as a Physician Assistant in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- Certification from the National Commission of Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
- Current US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) controlled substance registration number
- Current MA controlled (narcotics) registration number from the Department of Public Health
- Current CPR / Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification
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