Physician Assistant

Capital Health Medical Group is seeking a motivated Physician Assistant to join our Interventional Gastroenterology program. As a vital team member, you will be responsible for seeing inpatient consultations, outpatient office visits, coordinating patient care, and delivering results.

• Perform assessment of patients to identify priority care needs
• Document patient assessment and teaching and learning needs
• Obtain detailed nursing history and identify patients at physiologic and psychological risk
• Consult with interdisciplinary team regarding patient assessment findings
• Perform procedures necessary to implement plan of care based on care standards and protocols
• Develop plan of care across the continuum and exercise discretion and judgment when revising based on physiologic and psychosocial findings
• Order tests and consult as required by plan of care and review test results
• Review patient plan of care with interdisciplinary team and discuss plan with patient and family
• Document all patient care activities as per documentation standards
• Evaluate outcomes of documentation and contribute to performance improvement initiatives through medical record review
• Serve as a change agent by implementing practice initiatives
• Coordinate patient care activities to maximize patient outcomes
• Facilitate the assessment of patients' learning needs and outcomes measures of patient education, access resources from all disciplines to achieve patient outcomes
• Facilitate communication among departments to ensure continuity of care
• Act as a primary resource to patient care team
• Identify, provide, develop, and maintain learning resources for patient care team
• Lead a quality improvement process
• Recognize trends in patient populations and explore alternatives to care and assist in the revision of standards, guidelines, and protocols
• Analyze practices that contribute to variance, draw conclusions from aggregate data, identify resources to assist in variance analysis, and assist with drawing conclusions from aggregate data
• Assist in the development and revision of standards for patient populations incorporating an interdisciplinary approach and utilizing best practices and research findings
• Develop and revise patient education programs and evaluate effectiveness of learning
• Participate in clinical research and review current nursing research literature and demonstrate application to clinical practice
• Recognize behaviors that impact the team function and implement strategies to optimize teamwork and serve as a mentor for team members
• Seek leadership opportunities and facilitate leadership development among colleagues
• Collaborate in the development and implementation of educational plans for identified needs
• Review self-development plan and professional goals and seek new knowledge toward the progression of professional goals
• Demonstrate evidence of self-development by participating in educational programs
• Provide educational programs to advance performance levels of staff

• Graduate of an accredited physician assistant program, approved by the National Commission of Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
• One-year experience working with primary care management or acute care preferred
• NJ Physician Assistant License
• Women's Health experience/interest preferred

Frequent physical demands include: Sitting, Standing

Occasional physical demands include: Walking, Climbing (e.g., stairs or ladders), Carry objects, Push/Pull, Twisting, Bending, reaching forward, Squat/kneel/crawl, Wrist position deviation, Pinching/fine motor activities, Keyboard use/repetitive motion, Talk or Hear

Continuous physical demands include: Taste or Smell

Lifting Floor to Waist 20 lbs. Lifting Waist Level and Above 0 lbs.

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Offers are contingent upon successful completion of our onboarding process and pre-employment physical. Capital Health will require all applicants (including contractors, travelers, and consultants) to have an annual flu vaccine prior to start date, with the exception of individuals with medical and religious exemptions.

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