Campus Pride Jobs

Description

• Obtain comprehensive health histories on adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.

• Perform comprehensive physical, psychosocial, and mental examinations, including developmental and functional status determination.

• Manage patients with acute and chronic disorders.

• Interpret x-rays, with assistance from physician, in order to formulate diagnosis.

• Interpret lab values with order to correct abnormalities.

• Evaluate consultations and make concise case presentations to physicians, differentiating normal from abnormal findings, and suggest differential and presumptive diagnosis.

• Prioritize and initiate pertinent diagnostic test(s).

• Analyze assessment data to determine medical diagnosis.

• Develop a prioritized comprehensive problem list.

• Identify expected patient outcomes in collaboration with patient, family, and other professionals.

• Systematically utilize the nursing process as the method of assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating patient care.

• Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, safety, environmental, and infection control standards.

• Assesses gaps in policies and procedures, and create necessary policies and procedures to fulfill these gaps.

• Familiar with the Medical Center’s Mission, Vision, and Values Statements.

OTHER JOB DUTIES

• Participates in continuing education activities; attends scheduled in-service programs; shares information gained at conferences with colleagues.

• Performs other related duties as required.

BASIC COMPETENCIES

Education/Certification:

• Graduation from an accredited medical school plus completion of required residency in specialty.

• Board certification in specialty area or current active participation in the examination process.

• Board certified Internal Medicine; or Board Qualified physicians are required to sit for and pass their Board examinations within five years of employment.

• Evidence of formal, supervised training or clinical experience as required for certain procedures.

Licensure:

• Valid and unlimited license to practice medicine in the State of New Jersey.

• Valid license to prescribe controlled substances.

Experience:

• Demonstrated experience in area of specialty as set forth in credentialing requirements for that specialty.

Skills:

• Technical skills required for practice in specialty.

• Good oral and written communication skills.

• Good interpersonal skills.

• Speaks, reads and writes English to the extent required by the position.

JOB SETTING/PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Hospital, clinical areas.

• Contact with staff, patients, family, regulatory agencies.

• Mobility required.

• Manual dexterity.

• Frequent or prolonged standing/walking required in practice of some specialties.

• Exposed to infections, contagious diseases and bloodborne diseases.

• Handles emergency or crisis situations.

• Lifts, positions, pushes, and/or transfers patients.

• Protective clothing worn: face shield, 3M Healthcare Particulate Respirator, gloves, impermeable gown.

• Follow patients on a daily basis with interpretation of lab, x-ray, and results from diagnostic procedures, and document in progress notes.

• Act as Collaborating physician with Nurse Practitioner concerning all patient care.

• Document in the patient’s record all pertinent patient interactions and care.

• Identify risk factors and provide health teaching and discharge planning for primary and secondary prevention.

• Make referrals to appropriate person or services.

• Collaborate with other staff members to improve quality of patient care.

• Provide discharge instructions with prescriptions given and follow-up visits arranged.

• Provide emotional support to family members in the event of crisis or death of patient.

• Acquire and maintain current knowledge in advanced practice.

• Contribute to the professional development of peers, colleagues, and others upon request.

• Critically evaluate and modify existing practice based upon current research findings.

• Participate in interdisciplinary quality improvement efforts to improve clinical practice.

• Correctly perform procedures according to delineation of privileges.

• Demonstrate knowledge and skills to appropriately communicate and interact with patients, families, and visitors of all age groups while being sensitive to their cultural and religious beliefs.

• Completes all documentation in patient medical records.

• Understands and adheres to the Medical Center’s Code of Conduct.

• Customer Service: respect, flexibility, knowledge, confidence, professionalism, pleasant attitude, patience and helpfulness. All responses should be timely, professional, caring, and respectful in accordance with Customer Service Performance expectations

• Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, safety, environmental, and infection control standards. Assesses gaps in policies and procedures, and create necessary policies and procedures to fulfill these gaps.