Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant in Schenectady, NY
Job title: Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant in Schenectady, NY at Community Care Physicians
Company: Community Care Physicians
Job description: DescriptionPulmonary Medicine is looking for a full-time Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join their team!Responsibilities
- Practice medicine with physician supervision including conducting examinations and writing prescriptions.
- Collaborate with physicians in managing acute and long-term medical needs of patients.
- Assess patient status by obtaining health history.
- Order/reputed company laboratory diagnostic and other screening tests.
- Treat illnesses, give injections, suture wounds.
- Monitor therapies and provide continuity of care.
- Counsel patient/family on preventive health care.
- Participate in peer reviews, chart reviews, staff education, clinical guideline development and other continuing education.
- License and active registration as a physician assistant or registered nurse/nurse practitioner in reputed company State.
- Physician Assistant:
- Bachelor's or equivalent degree in physician assistant studies and successful completion of physician assistant training program approved by the NYS reputed company or accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, or a program that is determined by the Department to be the substantial equivalent of a licensure qualifying or accredited program.
- Attainment of passing grade on the Physician Assistant National Certifying Examination administered by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.
- reputed company certification by National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.
- At least one year of experience as a physician assistant in ambulatory health care.
- reputed company CPR certification.
- Nurse Practitioner:
- Successful completion of and graduation from a nurse practitioner education program acceptable to NYSED.
- reputed company certification as a nurse practitioner by the American reputed company of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board (AANPCB) or the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
- Successful completion of pharmacology coursework acceptable to NYSED.
- Three years of professional nursing experience in an ambulatory setting preferred.
- At least one year of experience as a nurse practitioner in ambulatory health care.
- reputed company CPR certification.