• Job Description

  Req#: 150466

  Job Description

  Performs a variety of functions and technical procedures necessary for patient admission, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and outcome evaluation. Participates in performance improvement, research, and educational activities.

  Job Responsibility

  • Takes initial patient histories and performs physical examinations.
  • Initiates, documents, and communicates the plan of care and follows up to ensure complete screening and preparation of patients.
  • Performs daily patient rounds.
  • Writes orders for medications, laboratory work, and diagnostic tests.
  • Interprets laboratory and test results.
  • Confers with attending physicians, residents, nursing staff, and/or other care providers to ensure optimum quality of patient care.
  • Upon discharge, notes discharge summaries, prescriptions, and any referrals on patient charts.
  • Informs patients of the necessary post-discharge care instructions.
  • Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.

  Job Qualification

  • Bachelor’s Degree, required. Graduate of an accredited (Accreditation Review Committee for Physician Assistant Programs ARC-PA) program, required.
  • Current license to practice as a Physician Assistant (PA) by the New York State Department of Education, required.
  • Current NCCPA Certification from the National Commission on the Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA), required.
  • Current BLS certification, required.

  A full time Physician Assistant (PA) position is open for a premiere Northwell Health Plastic Surgery practice (Long Island), focused on breast reconstruction and aesthetic surgery. The PA will be a part of a high-end women’s surgical health practice, seeing both cosmetic and breast reconstructive surgery patients. The majority of patients are surgical patients. This is a full time position.

  We are looking for a hard working PA that is ready to take initiative. There is a combination of surgical operative and outpatient clinical duties. Therefore, surgical experience is welcomed and encouraged. This is a wonderful opportunity to be professionally challenged and grow within a desirable practice and a leading healthcare system.

  
  *Additional Salary Detail
  The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).

• About the company

  Northwell Health is a nonprofit integrated healthcare network that is New York State's largest healthcare provider and private employer. The flagship hospitals of Northwell are North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center.

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