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TMCOne along with Arizona Pediatric Surgery are currently recruiting for a physician assistant to provide excellent care to the children of Tucson and Southern Arizona. This is a clinic and hospital based role where the hours will vary. This role would be to support the surgical portion of the practice as opposed to the urology side. Monday-Friday, 4 days in the hospital, 1 clinic day. 6 days of call per month that can be taken from home!
Job Responsibility
Obtain patient history and perform physical exam
Evaluate new patients with operative and non-operative pediatric surgery concerns (drain abscesses, remove stitches, remove drains, train patients on gastrostomy tube care, train patients on stoma care, etc.)
Manage follow up patients who have non-operative pediatric surgery conditions (example: pectus carinatum)
Train in neonatal circumcision and perform/manage those patients
Assist in pre and post op care for pediatric surgery patients
Requirements
Completion of an approved physician assistant program, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
Internship and two (2) years’ experience strongly preferred, but not required
A current Physician’s Assistant license in state of Arizona and Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and DEA certifications required
Dept Specific: Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification
Knowledge of physician assistant regulations and practices along with prescribing regulations
Skill in applying medical care
Skill discharge planning or chronic care planning
Ability to apply use of Code via CPT and ICD-10
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations
Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals
Ability to effectively present information and respond to inquiries or complaints from employees, patients and/or their representatives, and the general public
Ability to calculate figures and compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables