Physician Assistant

A urology group in Bradenton, FL is seeking a full-time Physician Assistant (PA). The PA will serve as first assistant in the operating room. The role of the PA will also be to see patients in routine status checks, hospital consults and rounding, office consults, re-evaluations and discharge summaries, working under the supervision of a physician.

Key responsibilities:

• Assist surgeon in operating room.
• 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:

• Holds a current license and is in good standing.
• Maintains certification in accordance with Department of Regulations.
• Able to perform tasks in surgery efficiently and effectively.
• Able to obtain and sustain clinical hospital privileges.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work with minimum supervision.
• Ability to travel within the surrounding communities.
• Good diagnostic capabilities.
• Graduate of an approved program or its equivalent.
• Meets the standards set by the Board of Medicine.