Primary Care Physician Assistant job at Essen Health Care New York, NY, US

Job Description

Job Summary
Job Summary: The Physician Assistant will support the doctors’ work and actively facilitate patients’ recovery. You will apply medical techniques and principles under the direction of a physician and you will deal with a diverse set of patients offering them care and encouragement.
Job Responsibilities: Responsibilities include:
Provide healthcare services under supervision of a physician.
Examine patients and record their medical histories.
Conduct physicals and treat minor injuries (sutures, splints, etc)
Order diagnostic tests, interpret results and diagnose medical conditions.
Prescribe therapy or medication with physician approval.
Monitor responses to treatments and counsel patients.
Assess patients’ health and their demands and aim to fulfill them as well as possible.
Issue appropriate prescriptions and administer medicine.
Inform physicians about any problems or discrepancies that might arise.
Acquire and review patient histories identifying abnormal conditions.
Monitor patients’ progress and keep records of treatments, surgeries or other medical events.
Prepare patients for examinations and conduct routine procedures (measure blood pressure and temperature, administer injections etc)
Provide therapeutic treatments (disinfecting wounds, stitching etc.)
Collaborate effectively with team members of various specializations.
Attend to emergencies.
Qualifications: Job Requirements:
Master’s Degree required
Active New York license as a Physician Assistant
Currently New York Controlled Substance and Drug Enforcement Registration
Master's degree
Graduate of an approved PA Program and a post-graduate training program in surgery or at least one-year equivalent work experience
Current Certification by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
Emergency Medicine / Family Practice/Acute Care
DOT, BLS, ACLS Preferred
Bilingual a plus - Spanish
Proven work experience as a physician assistant or nurse
Knowledge of EMR Systems preferred
Equal Opportunity Employer
Essen Health care is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we seek candidates who desire to work in and serve an ethnically diverse population.

Job Tags

Full time, Work experience placement,

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