Job Description
Physician Assistant
Southlake Orthopaedics is looking for a full time Physician Assistant to join our team.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assist the surgeon in surgery
- Perform patient progress notes, history and physical intake, triage, and consults.
- Issue and transcribe diagnostic orders and prescriptions.
- Formulate a working diagnosis, develop and implement treatment plans.
- Monitor the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions.
- Evaluate patient status during hospital rounds.
- Perform independent evaluations in emergency situations.
- Verify operating room equipment and materials are in a state of readiness.
- Participate in on-call schedule.
- Offer counseling and education to patients as needed.
- Performs clinical duties including, but not limited to, wound care, injections, draw labs, apply and remove dressings/bandages, casting, etc.