Per Diem Physician Assistant - Neurosurgery

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CORE JOB SUMMARY                                                                                                                                                                                                   

The Physician Assistant (PA) delivers patient- and family-centered care in a culturally competent and compassionate manner, utilizing and promoting evidence-based standards of quality, safety, and service while ensuring population-specific patient care. The PA provides and directs hands-on care to patients, practicing within the scope of practice of the Florida Board of Medicine requirements for Physician Assistants, standards of care, and institutional policies and procedures. Within this role, the PA performs all steps of the care process and monitors the quality of care provided. The PA demonstrates expertise and mastery towards patient care, providing care within the philosophy, mission, and objectives of the health system. The PA delivers care that supports the UHealth mission to be a state-of-the-art academic medical center by participating in transforming patient care through innovative research.

CORE JOB FUNCTIONS

Caring Science: Provides overall care with loving kindness. Uses creative problem-solving to meet the individual needs and requests of patients. Helps support the hope and faith of patients cared for. Is responsive to patient readiness to learn when they are taught something new. Is respectful of individual patient spiritual beliefs and practices. Creates an environment for the patient that helps them heal physically and spiritually. Establishes trust with the patients, and responds to each patient as a whole person, helping to care for their needs and concerns. Encourages patients to speak honestly about their feelings, no matter what their feelings are.

Leadership:

Contributes concise, constructive feedback in the provision of care to other staff and leadership. Assumes responsibility, delegates to appropriate personnel, and follows up to assure completion. Serves as a clinical role model, mentor, and/or preceptor, teaches others, suggests process improvements, provides evidence-based practice suggestions, coaches others to improve, support changes, and recognizes contribution of others.

Participates on and/or leads committees and task forces as they advance in expertise.

Establishes Therapeutic and Trusting Relationships: Creates and maintains a climate conducive to healing by being present for the patient and family. Leads and collaborates with the care team in identifying and managing discomforts; providing emotional support and information; guiding the patient and family through phases of illness and recovery/passage to death and in accordance with the patient's goals and culture. Mobilizes the patient's strengths and abilities towards participation in recovery and control over plan of care.

Diagnostic and Monitoring Functions: Obtains accurate and relevant assessment data and interprets the data as normal vs. abnormal. Determines diagnosis. Modifies patient treatment plans as indicated by patients’ responses and conditions, and collaborates with physicians and other team members.

Plans and Implements Therapeutic Interventions:

Collaborates with the patient, family, and members of health care team to develop an individualized plan of care including discharge planning. Implements medical interventions safely. Performs appropriate patient tests and safely administers medications within the scope of practice. Administers and maintains accurate records related to medications and treatments as per regulatory bodies, policies, procedures. Evaluates effectiveness of interventions and monitors patient for adverse responses and side effects.

Utilizes available technology platforms, and practices and evaluates telehealth services when applicable in accordance with relevant standards.

Teaching and Coaching: Patient and Staff Teaching: Assesses a patient's and family's learning needs and readiness to learn. Teaches needed information for self-care and illness prevention. Adjusts informati