Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner - Urology and Urogynecology at City of Hope, United States-California-Irvine

Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner - Urology and Urogynecology at City of Hope in United States-California-Irvine. Est. up to $160k. Apply with swipeandhired.

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

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City of Hope is seeking a dedicated Physician Assistant (PA) to join our growing Urology and Urogynecology team at our Lennar and SeaCliff locations.
As an integral member of a multidisciplinary care team, the Physician Assistant provides comprehensive, patient-centered care to individuals across the continuum of treatment. Working collaboratively with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals, the PA delivers high-quality clinical care while helping to ensure an exceptional patient experience.
The Physician Assistant is responsible for providing both independent and collaborative medical management to a defined patient population in accordance with established standardized procedures and clinical protocols. In partnership with a supervising physician, the PA evaluates patients, develops treatment plans, manages ongoing care, and contributes to the coordination of services that support optimal patient outcomes.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Provide primary, secondary, and in some cases, tertiary care within scope of practice, licensure, and organizational policies.
• Services provided include, but are not limited to taking histories, conducting physical examinations, ordering, performing, and interpreting appropriate diagnostic and laboratory tests and therapies and furnishing drugs and devices in a cost-efficient manner for specific conditions.
• Perform history and physical assessments of patients that are accurate, concise, relevant, and appropriate.
• Document the consultation and new patient note.
• Order and appropriate analyzes diagnostic tests including but not limited to laboratory and imaging evaluations.
• Develop, implement, and evaluate the plan of care with modifications as needed and in coordination with the attending physician when appropriate.
• Perform routine procedures pertinent to the practice and as granted through the privilege process.
• During simple follow-up cases, may independently manage patients in follow-up including ordering follow-up imaging, providing medical care, and support to the patient including ordering pharmacological agents.
• Interpret imaging and communicates with attending physician regarding interval patient change.
• Prescribe and council patients on narcotic use safety.
• Demonstrate pharmacologic knowledge including indications, contraindications, side effects, interactions, and adverse effects of pharmacologic agents.
• Review treatment and therapy plans with patients and appropriate family members.