Responsibilities :
Promotes and maintains patient health by providing medical services under the supervision of a physician.
Contributes to a ..
Responsibilities :
Promotes and maintains patient health by providing medical services under the supervision of a physician.
Contributes to a physician’s efficiency by identifying short-term and long-range patient care issues. - Recommends options and courses of action for patient care. - Implements physician directives.
Assesses patient health by interviewing patients and performing physical examination including obtaining, updating, and studying medical histories. - Determines abnormal conditions by administering or ordering diagnostic tests, such as X-rays and laboratory studies and interpreting test results.
Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records. - Performs therapeutic procedures by administering injections and immunizations, suturing, and managing wounds and infections.
Instructs and counsels patients by providing normal growth and development information and providing counseling on emotional problems of daily living.
Provides community of care by developing and implementing patient-management plans.
