250639 - Physician-Physician Practice

Overview

Responsible for providing and managing direct medical services including assessing and managing patients following established standards and practices. Requires knowledge of the behaviors, developmental stages, physical and emotional needs, life cycle changes, culture, and comfort and care appropriate to the population served.

• Licensure to practice medicine in the state of Indiana required.
• Requires Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support ACLS), or Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification through the AHA.
• May require Board certification.
• Must achieve and maintain active, provisional or courtesy clinical staff membership at IU Health assigned facility.
• Must maintain current state and federal DEA certification.
• Requires knowledge of legal and ethical standards for the delivery of medical care.
• Requires knowledge of current principles, methods and procedures for the delivery of medical evaluation, diagnosis and treatment in the area of expertise.
• Requires knowledge of relevant drugs and non-pharmaceutical patient care aids and ability to prescribe dosages and instruct patients in correct usage.
• Requires knowledge of community medical diagnostic and patient care services.
• Requires licensure or certification is considered minimal competence unless an event of error occurs.
• Must have the analytical ability to evaluate problem situations and come to appropriate conclusions.
• Must have the ability to use judgment and discretion.
• Must have the ability to manage several assignments simultaneously and prioritize appropriately, to cope successfully with diversity and complexity, to integrate seemingly unrelated data and to reduce complex notions to relatively simple terms.
• Must have the ability to communicate effectively with peers, staff members, patients and others and to document using appropriate vocabulary, grammar and work usage.
• Must have the ability to achieve outcomes with respect to the coordinating of patient care activities with others.
• Must have the ability to respond and react immediately with unimpeded auditory perception of verbal/vocal instructions and auditory auscultation such as codes or emergency situations.
• Must have the ability to respond and react immediately to visual observation and in emergency situations.
• Must have the ability to sufficiently mobile to access patients on different sides of exam tables, reach patients at different heights and positions from ground to six feet above the ground.
• Must have the ability to sit, stand, stoop or bend for extended periods of time varying on patient schedules and needs.
• Must have the ability to exhibit normal range of hearing, vision, manual dexterity, and physical capabilities consistent with a standard physician practice.
• Must have the ability and the capacity to document in a clear and concise fashion and according to hospital standards.
• Must have the ability to observe, assess and record symptoms, reactions and progress.
• Must have the ability to maintain quality, safety and/or infection control standards.
• Must have the ability to work both independently and in a team environment.
• Must have the ability to maintain current American Heart Association certification in CPR during the course of employment.