Physician Assistant - PA

Physician Assistant - Outpatient & Urgent Care

The Mescalero Apache Tribe, comprising three sub-tribes, resides on a reservation of 463,000 acres in the Southwest. The Mescalero Service Unit Indian Health Service operates a 13-bed hospital offering inpatient and outpatient services, including specialty clinics and field health programs. The hospital also provides on-site laboratory and radiology services.

Responsibilities include providing diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic health services to patients and family members, collaborating with physicians, and ensuring compliance with medical standards and infection control practices.

• Secure a health and development history from the patient or parent;
• Record findings; make critical evaluations;
• Person or request special screening and developmental tests;
• Order laboratory tests and interpret the results;
• Discriminate between normal and abnormal findings;
• Make decisions with physicians concerning the medical care needs of patients;
• Provide direct medical care in the presence of illness or disability in order to maintain life, provide comfort, reduce distress and enhance coping ability;
• Provide surveillance over medical practices applied to stabilize chronically ill persons;
• Adjust treatment within established standing orders recognizing when to refer the patient to a physician or other health team members;
• Work collaboratively with physicians in the management of selected complex medical problems;
• When clinically engaged with a medically complex patient present the case to the physician clinic consultant for the day for proper treatment and disposition;
• Consult the clinic physician consultant or on-call hospitalist for patients assessed and deemed to require admission to the hospital;
• Participate with other health professionals and agencies involved in providing health care and services required to include immunization and disease control, environmental health and health education;
• Provide emergency or crisis intervention in order to stabilize a patient for transport to a higher-level facility;
• Provide medical care and preventive services to healthy individuals,
• Evaluate total health care needs of patients and develops plans to meet these needs;
• Required information for use in program operation, quality control and other purposes (all medical record information-generated in the performance of this contract will remain the property and subject to the exclusive control of the Indian Health Service);
• Participate in certain medical staff committee meetings as required;
• Comply with all Client facility infection control and safety procedures, practices and standards;
• Meet all applicable Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization (JCAHO) and Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Services (CMS) standards during the performance of this contract, and must be in compliance with the Service Unit's Medical Staff Bylaws;
• And respect the basic rights of patients, to include but not be limited to personal dignity.

Requirements include holding an active, current, and unrestricted Physician Assistant (PA) license, NCCPA Certification, thirty-six (36) months of Physician Assistant experience, and current Basic Life Support (BLS), Pediatric Advance Life Support (PALS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certifications.

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