Requisition ID:
118296
Physician Assistant
The Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine is seeking a Physician Assistant work with attending physicians, residents, nurses, respiratory therapists, and others to provide patient care in various intensive care units, including surgical, burn, and neuro.
Specific Duties & Responsibilities
- Works independently with supervision and medical direction by Critical Care Attending Physicians.
- Coordinates patient care provided by a multi-disciplinary team of specialty care practitioners.
- Obtains medical histories and perform physical examinations.
- Orders and interprets laboratory tests, X-rays, and other diagnostic studies.
- Interprets information from invasive and non-invasive monitors.
- Initiates or modifies routine, complex, and emergent medication regimens and therapies.
- Performs emergent, urgent, and routine procedures, if credentialed to do so.
- Assumes responsibility and accountability for organizing time and workload to meet patient, staff, and departmental needs.
- Serves as an educational and clinical resource to nursing and multi-disciplinary staff as well as to patients and their families.
- Provides leadership, guidance, and teaching to the junior NP/PA staff, PA and medical students, as well as residents rotating in the units.
- Assists NP/PA manager with formulation of PA policies within the ACCM department and other administrative matters.
- Serves as a sub-investigator for clinical trials.
Additional
- Applicants must have advanced clinical skills and have demonstrated the ability to apply theoretical concepts as part of a multi-disciplinary health care team providing care to patients and their families.
- Applicants must have the ability to diagnose patients and to implement a medical care plan for the long and short-term care of acute and chronic health conditions in the intensive care unit.
Position Requires the Ability to
- Apply critical-thinking and problem-solving skills to function effectively and adapt to a dynamic and often changing work environment.
- Apply evidence-based decision-making when assessing and treating patients.
- Communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
- Collaborate with other services, other units, and other departments.
- Function with minimal supervision within the scope of their practice as part of the critical care team
- Teach and mentor junior staff and rotating house-staff.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree; Certification by the NCCPA or similar national certifying body; Completion of a CAAHEP certified Physician Assistant program. Must be licensed as PA in State of Maryland or other state where practicing.
- Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond HS Diploma/Graduation Equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.
Classified Title: Physician Assistant
Role/Level/Range: ACRP/04/MG
Starting Salary Range: $106,000 - $152,900 Annually ($120,000 targeted; Commensurate w/exp.)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: Varies
FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: Johns Hopkins Bayview
Department name: SOM Ane Bay Bayview ICU
Personnel area: School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins Bayview