Physician Assistant / Nurse Practitioner - Full-Time at Urgent Care Specialists, PC

Physician Assistant/Nurse Practitioner

Established in 2012, Urgent Care Specialists, PC's mission was to bring a new approach to urgent care with local ties to the community through providers with emergency medicine experience "bringing ER expertise to life's little emergencies."

Today, our mission is to offer the community easy access to high-quality, evidence-based medical care provided by medical practitioners with specialized training in emergency medicine and substantial prior ER experience. Our vision is to continue growing the availability of this higher-level urgent medical care to more parts of the community while adding new, innovative technologies whenever possible to provide our patients with the most up-to-date and technologically advanced healthcare experience possible.

Job Responsibility:

The Nurse Practitioner (NP)/Physician Assistant (PA) is responsible for responding to patients' medical and health problems, including but not limited to collecting historical medical information, diagnosis, investigation, treatment, and providing referrals as appropriate. Our NP/PA independently performs various clinical services and procedures, including treating acute episodic illnesses and injuries, such as sore throats, colds, flu-like symptoms, cuts, sprains, and minor infections. They are also responsible for selecting and utilizing appropriate diagnostics or therapeutic procedures for patients. This position is also tasked with keeping informed of medical developments, drugs, treatments, and medications and promoting health education.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The essential functions include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Obtain patient history and perform physical examination
• Make tentative diagnoses and decisions about the management and treatment of patients
• Prescribe therapy or medication when appropriate
• Administer or order diagnostic tests such as x-rays, electrocardiograms, and laboratory tests
• Interpret diagnostic test results
• Obtain, compile, and record patient medical data, including health history, progress notes, and results of physical examination
• Instruct and counsel patients about prescribed therapeutic regimens or treatment plans
• Enter, transcribe, record, store, or maintain information in electronic medical record (EMR)
• Perform therapeutic procedures such as injections, immunizations, incision and drainage, splinting, suturing and wound care, and infection management
• Perform other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

• Bachelor's degree (B.S.) from a four-year college or university; Physician Assistant/Nurse Practitidoner program required
• Licensed as a Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner

• Minimum of 3 years experience in an Emergency Department is required.

• Appropriate certifications to write prescriptions under the authority of the medical leader, both federal and state
• Ability to work under pressure
• Good bedside manner, emotional stability, and have the ability to make decisions in emergency situations
• A desire for further education to keep up with ever-changing medical advances
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Excellent patient relationship skills

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is required to stand, walk, sit, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift or move up to 25 pounds. This position's specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.

Note

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbents will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to themselves or others' health or safety. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities.