Physician Assistant

Title: Physician Assistant
Start Date: 07/08/2024
End Date: 07/08/2025
# of Openings: 4
Position Type: Contract
Locations: Fayetteville, NC
Additional Details:

VA Business Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Clinic or Operating Room (OR) Schedule: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. with a 30-minute lunch

Length of assignment: 1 year and possible 4 year renewal depending on performance
Due Date : 23rd May 2024

Note : Preference will be given to the candidate with lowest rate. 


Description:

• Physician Assistant shall be technically proficient in the skills necessary to fulfill the government's requirements, including the ability to speak, understand, read and write English fluently


• All candidates must have a current unencumbered license in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States or the District of Columbia.


• All candidates must be Citizen of the United States.


• All candidates must be currently certified in VHA-approved Basic Life Support (BLS) or equivalency and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certifications from the American Heart Association.


• Primary Care Physician Assistants, experienced in the specialty required and has an active certification in the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) and have a minimum of 5 years of experience within the last five years


• All persons are compared against and are not listed on the OIG excluded.

Direct Patient Care: Estimated 95% of the time involved in direct patient care. Candidates shall be responsible for clinic appointments and follow-up of labs/imaging/procedures ordered during these appointments, interpretation, phone call consultation from hospitalists and intensivists on inpatients, and availability for case review with nurse practitioners on service.

Scope of Care: Candidates shall be responsible for providing Family Practice and interventional Family Practice consultative services for: assessment, diagnostic work-up and clinic intervention, including comprehensive patient assessment, health history, physical examination, and patient education to Veterans in the Primary Care team setting; outpatient include both scheduled and unscheduled Veterans. Order and evaluate diagnostic tests as appropriate, recommend treatment and/or referral. Record/document health appraisal information, clinical assessments, treatment decision, plan of care, ongoing management and therapeutic outcomes, order medications, diagnostic test and referral consultations where needed for every patient encounter; recording will be accomplished using the electronic comprehensive patient record system (CPRS) and will be completed on the day of the encounter.