Nurse Practitioner OR Physician Assistant chez Precision Healthcare Specialists

Description

Precision Healthcare Specialists (PHS) is currently seeking a certified Physician Assistant (PA-C) or licensed Nurse Practitioner (APRN or CNP) for a full-time position in the Bradenton/Sarasota area with a Urologist. General responsibilities will include seeing patients for routine status checks, hospital consults and rounding, assist in surgical procedures, office consults, re-evaluations and discharge summaries, while working under the supervision of a physician. 

Precision Healthcare Specialists is here for all of your healthcare needs in a variety of specialty areas. We are precisely focused on YOU and helping to connect you with the best surgeons and physicians in Southwest Florida. Precision will provide you with a cohesive specialty team for your specific situation

Key Responsibilities:

• Evaluate patients: take history and perform pertinent physical examination in hospital and office setting. 

• Provide post-surgical wound care and follow-up.

• Coordinate care of patients. 

• Record and ensure availability and completeness of documentation, reports, and imaging examinations. 

• Provide patient education, counseling, and instruction.

• Facilitate supervising physician referral of patients to the appropriate health care facilities, agencies, other resources in the community or other physicians.

• Dictate progress notes, history and physical, and discharge summaries.

• Administer and/or order medication upon request of supervising physician. 

• Initiate emergency measures on patients as required.

• Provide in-service and daily consultation to nursing staff.

• All other specific tasks delegated by supervising physician in accordance with the physician assistant’s knowledge and experience developed under the supervising physician in the field of urology.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Holds a current license and is in good standing.

• Maintains certification in accordance with Department of Regulations. 

• Able to perform efficiently and effectively. 

• Able to obtain and sustain clinical hospital privileges.

• Excellent interpersonal skills.

• Ability to work with minimum supervision.

• Good diagnostic capabilities.

• Graduate of an approved program or its equivalent.

• Meets the standards set by the Board of Medicine.

Experience:

• Preferably 3 years in one specialty medicine as a PA or NP (new grads encouraged)