JOB PURPOSE OR MISSION: To provide direct care for patients under the direction of physicians while following established protocols and procedures for patient care standards and appropriate to the needs of the age population served, as defined in the department's scope of service.
PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
CRITERIA A: Everyday Excellence Values
Employee demonstrates Everyday Excellence values in the day-to-day performance of their job.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
- Demonstrates courtesy and caring to each other, patients and their families, physicians, and the community.
- Takes initiative in living our Everyday Excellence values and vital signs.
- Takes initiative in identifying customer needs before the customer asks.
- Participates in teamwork willingly and with enthusiasm.
- Demonstrates respect for the dignity and privacy needs of customers through personal action and attention to the environment of care.
- Keeps customers informed, answers customer questions and anticipates information needs of customers.
CRITERIA B: Corporate Compliance
Employee demonstrates commitment to the Code of Conduct, Conflict of Interest Guidelines, and the GHS Corporate Compliance Guidelines.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
- Practices diligence in fulfilling the regulatory and legal requirements of the position and department.
- Maintains accurate and reliable patient/organizational records.
- Maintains professional relationships with appropriate officials; communicates honesty and completely; behaves in a fair and nondiscriminatory manner in all professional contacts.
CRITERIA C: Personal Achievement
Employee demonstrates initiative in achieving work goals and meeting personal objectives.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
- Uses accepted procedures and practices to complete assignments. Uses creative and proactive solutions to achieve objectives even when workload and demands are high.
- Adheres to high moral principles of honesty, loyalty, sincerity, and fairness.
- Upholds the ethical standards of the organization.
CRITERIA D: Performance Improvement
Employee actively participates in Performance Improvement activities and incorporates quality improvement standards in his/her job performance.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
- Optimizes talents, skills, and abilities in achieving excellence in meeting and exceeding customer expectations.
- Initiates or redesigns to continuously improve work processes.
- Contributes ideas and suggestions to improve approaches to work processes.
- Willingly participates in organization and/or department quality initiatives.
CRITERIA E: Cost Management
Employee demonstrates effective cost management practices.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
- Effectively manages time and resources.
- Makes conscious effort to effectively utilize the resources of the organization — material, human, and financial.
- Consistently looks for and uses resource saving processes.
CRITERIA F: Patient & Employee Safety
Employee actively participates in and demonstrates effective patient and employee safety practices.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
- Employee effectively communicates, demonstrates, coordinates and emphasizes patient and employee safety.
- Employee proactively reports errors, potential errors, injuries or potential injuries.
- Employee demonstrates departmental specific patient and employee safety standards at all times.
- Employee demonstrates the use of proper safety techniques, equipment and devices and follows safety policies, procedures and plans.
- Monitors emergency seclusion/restraints.
JOB FUNCTIONS
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS include, but are not limited to:
- Provides direct patient care under the direction of a physician.
- Develops and revises the plan of care based on assessment data.
- Initiates action to provide teaching or information based upon identified patient needs and family/individual requests.
- Uses internal and external resources to resolve and assist in managing customer problems.
- Performs all other duties as assigned.
EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
SPECIAL SKILL, LICENSE AND KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS
Current certification by the National Committee on Certification of Physician Assistants.
Current Louisiana licensure as a Physician Assistant.
HIPAA REQUIREMENTS:
Maintains knowledge of and adherence to all applicable HIPAA regulations appropriate to Job Position including but not limited to: Medical records w/o limitation both paper and electronic, patient demographics, lab and radiology results, patient information related to surgery or appointment schedules, medical records related to quality/data, patient financial information, patients related complaints, information related to patient location, religious beliefs and/or public health records.
SAFETY REQUIREMENTS:
Maintains knowledge of and adherence to all applicable safety practices appropriate to Job Position including but not limited to: Incident reporting, handling of wastes, sharps and linen, PPE, exposure control plans, hand washing, environment of care, patient identification, administers/receives/collects meds/blood order or products, validates, transports, monitors or observes patients for procedures including infusion pumps, monitors clinical alarms for all ages.
RequirementsCurrent certification by the National Committee on Certification of Physician Assistants.
Current Louisiana licensure as a Physician Assistant.
Seeking an experienced, professional and highly motivated mid-level to join its growing team of medical professionals. This is a challenging and rewarding role with educational opportunities and significant growth potential. We are seeking a Full-time, experienced (PA) Physician Assistant to assist in the Operating Room with procedures, conduct hospital rounding, as well as, in office consultations, E & M visits, pre and post procedure care.
Responsibilities
- Hospital Rounding
- Operating Room assistance with cases
- Clinic work
- Intake, evaluation, and post-op follow up for new patients
- There is on call responsibilities for this position.
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