Job Specific Duties

• Contribute to Physician’s effectiveness by identifying short-term and long-range patient care issues that must be addressed; providing information and commentary in pertinent deliberations; recommending options and courses of action; and implementing physician directives. 
• Counsel and educate patients and their families.
• Create and sustain a therapeutic and ethically sound relationship with patients. 
• Differentiates between the normal and the abnormal in anatomic, physiological, laboratory findings and other diagnostic data. 
• Initiate emergency resuscitation and stabilization as necessary and complies with hospital safety regulations and infection control. 
• Manage general medical and surgical conditions to include understanding the indications, contraindications, side effects, interactions and adverse reactions of pharmacologic agents and other relevant treatment modalities.
• Orders, alters, or adjusts controlled and non- controlled medications for in hospital patients.
• Participate in performance improvement activities, quality of care initiatives and research of special projects.
• Perform procedures as identified in delineation of privileges. 
• Prescribes non-controlled medication for patients. 
• Assess patient health by interviewing patients; performing a physical examination; ordering pertinent lab and radiology; and obtaining, and updating medical records. 
• Work effectively with physicians and other health care professionals as a member or leader of a health care team or other professional group.