**Employment Type:**
Full time
**Shift:**
Day Shift

**Description:**
Primary responsibilities for the selected Physician Assistant are: Act as a First Assistant in Orthopedic Surgeries except spine. Respond to the Emergency Department for consultations and orthopedic procedural work, and round on the units.

Rounding on the orthopedic unit. Completes patient work-up including patient history, physical exam, order appropriate laboratory tests, x-ray studies, and any other diagnostic studies or procedures needed. Interprets test results and physical findings, writing initial and ongoing orders, progress notes and medications, and execute the discharge plan for the patients.

Provides consultations to physicians, nurses, other allied health professionals, health care agencies, and nursing homes. Makes daily hospital rounds including pre- and post-operative and charts progress notes as required or as necessary.

Performs discharge summaries, ch...