Physician, Women's Health (64692)

Department: Women’s Health

Position:  Physician - Women’s Health

Employee Category:  Exempt

Reporting Relationship:  Director Women’s Health

Character Qualities:

• Discretion- Recognizing and avoiding words, actions, and attitudes that could bring undesirable consequences.
• Responsibility- Knowing and doing what is expected of me.
• Alertness — Being aware of what is taking place around me so I can have the right responses.
• Dependability — Fulfilling what I consented to do, even if it means unexpected sacrifice.
• Sensitivity — Using my senses to perceive the true attitudes and emotions of others.

Summary of Duties and Responsibilities:

Physician (M.D. or D.O.) cares and addresses health care issues that are specific to women of all ages and are specially trained to provide care during pregnancy, childbirth, the postpartum period, and care of the newborn. Provides health care to the patients of VARIETY CARE, following the standards of the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) and at the direction of the Medical Director and/or Supervising Physician.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

1. Provides quality, comprehensive, accessible and cost-effective patient care through clinical expertise, role modeling, mentoring, consultation, interdisciplinary collaboration and utilization of research.
2. Performs clinical decision-making that is professional, innovative synthesis of knowledge, clinical evidence, research, scientific theory and nursing process.
3. Practice excellence and technical assistance is promoted through helping relationships among nursing staff and across other disciplines - nurses, support staff and administrative staff.
4. Follow protocols which provide medical authority when such are indicated in providing care.
5. Performs physical examinations, screenings and assessments of patients.
6. Selects orders and/or perform tests and procedures to augment physical findings.
7. Utilizes appropriate laboratory tests using prescribed methods and techniques; determines normal and abnormal test results; and develops a health care plan based upon analyzed data.
8. Define/document differential diagnoses and list differential diagnoses with most likely diagnoses included.    
9. Perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures as deemed necessary and appropriate for plan of care.
10. Interpret data and diagnostic results for appropriate