Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant - Savannah, United States - GeorgiaGov

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    Georgia Regional Hospital, located in Savannah Georgia, is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

    Job Description, Responsibilities, Standards, and Qualifications

    Job Description:

    Job Responsibilities & Performance Standards:

  • Administers or orders diagnostic tests, such as x-ray, electrocardiogram, and laboratory tests
  • Develops comprehensive plans of care
  • Examines clients to obtain information about their physical condition
  • Instructs and counsels clients about prescribed therapeutic regimens, normal growth and development, family planning, emotional problems of daily living, and health maintenance
  • Interprets diagnostic test results for deviations from normal
  • Makes tentative diagnoses and decisions about management and treatment of clients
  • Obtains compiles and records client medical data, including health history, progress notes and results of physical examination
  • Performs therapeutic procedures, such as injections, immunizations, suturing and wound care, and infection management
  • Prescribes therapy or medication with physician approval
  • Visits and observes clients on hospital rounds or house calls, updating charts, ordering therapy, and reporting back to physician
  • May supervise support and/or lower level employees
  • Technical Competencies:
  • Knowledge of assessment tools, interviewing, and physical examination techniques
  • Ability to formulate diagnosis based on examination and test results; Able to interpret test results, identify deviations from norms, and intervene or make appropriate referrals
  • Ability to assess, plan for, and provide basic nursing skills; knows procedures
  • Ability to prescribe certain medications as part of a treatment plan gaining physician approval when needed