Physician Assistant - Primary Care Services

Summary

This Physician Assistant (PA) position is located in Primary Care Service - VA St. Louis Health Care System (V ASTLHCS) at our Women's Clinic & Manchester Avenue CBOC - St. Louis - Missouri. The PA is a professional who executes position responsibilities that demonstrates leadership - experience - and creative approaches to the management of complex client care. The PA must demonstrate performance and leadership that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients.

Duties

• The PA has advanced clinical knowledge and competency and is able to function in a variety of roles
• The PA has a scope of clinical practice in collaboration with a physician
• The PA functions as the professional leader of a PACT team or an interdisciplinary health care team with broad-based - clinical expertise in caring for patients with chronic and complex disease
• The PA possesses the administrative leadership necessary to promote interdisciplinary cooperation among the various disciplines
• The PA demonstrates ability to assess the patient clinically - analyzes needs and coordinates care in an effective and cost-efficient manner to assure total management of the patient's identified needs VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package
• The purpose of the work is to provide the full range of assessment of needs - planning for care - teaching - and performance of routine and emergency procedures for primary care patients
• The work product directly impacts the successful completion of the clinic's mission by increasing the well-being of substantial numbers of eligible beneficiaries
• Routine duties include: Performing initial histories and physical examinations on outpatients
• The supervising physician will review and countersign all admitting inpatient history and physical exams
• Providing ongoing outpatient for assigned patients
• Performing periodic physical examination on nursing home and domiciliary residents Screening outpatients to determine need for further care
• Prescribing medications within defined scope of practice
• Ordering diagnostic studies such as laboratory tests - x-rays - electrocardiograms
• Carrying out health promotion and disease prevention activities
• Drawing blood specimens for testing and performing other comparable lab procedures
• Initiating and expediting requests for consultations and scheduling special tests and studies
• Providing education and counseling of patients and families in preventive care - medical conditions - and use of prescribed treatments and drugs
• The work is performed under the general supervision of a staff physician
• The superv1smg physician will ensure that the practice of the PA remains within limits of designated privileges and/or recognized medical standards - evaluates quality of treatment - referral - and flow-up care - and is responsible for the P A's action and quality of care
• Work is reviewed for quality control compliance with established medical standards and limits of credentialing privileges
• Incumbent is evaluated on a regular basis for adequacy of performance - quality of care provided - adherence to professional medical standards and ethics - protocols and requirements - and ability to accomplish work within deadlines and regulatory constraints
• The incumbent functions with substantial independence in the examination - diagnosis - and treatment of the patients
• A physician is readily available (in person or telephonically) for consultation or referral in a difficult case
• Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8am - 4:30pm Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized
• Telework: May be approved for ADHOC
• Virtual: This is not a virtual position.