Physician - Pulmonary Medicine jobs in Vineland, NJ

JOB DESCRIPTION

Position/Title: Physician

Reporting/Department Head: Chief Medical Officer

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  FLSA Status – Exempt
• EEO Category – Professional

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Our Mission: To improve lives by providing convenient, comprehensive, high-quality healthcare to every person in every community that we serve.

Our Vision: CCHN will maintain its position as the leading community health center in the state and become a model for all other healthcare organizations to follow.

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MAJOR FUNCTION:

Provides medical care within the scope of NJ licensed Physician

• Assess the bio/psycho/social/spiritual health status of individual clients and families through history taking, data collection, and physical exam
• Assists staff nurses to facilitate care for walk-in patients
• Completes accurate documentation according to site specific standards
• Works in collaboration with staff, physicians, allied health professionals, and others to implement the patients plan of care

Provides pharmacological care within the scope of a NJ licensed Physician

• Participates in annual update of joint practice protocols as per NJ Board of Medical Examiners guidelines
• Prescribes or make judgments regarding pharmacologic agents and therapeutic devices
• Dispenses/Administers/Prescribes medications according to policy & protocol

Provides medical care within the scope of a NJ licensed Physician

• Recognizes and manages deviations from health
• Recognizes patients whose problem is out of scope of practice and obtain appropriate care
• Orders appropriate laboratory and diagnostic tests ordered
• Follows up on laboratory and diagnostic tests ordered
• Communicates with patient to arrive at mutually agreed upon plan of care to include actual and potential health problems
• Evaluation and revision of patient plan of care is ongoing

Provides health education

• Informs, teaches and guides clients/families to assume responsibility for management of their own health
• Individualizes education to facilitate patient independence and optimize patient self care
• Educates patients on pharmacological agents, therapeutic devices, laboratory or diagnostic testing
• Promotes health education for groups of patients, families, staff, agencies, communities, and organizations pertinent to area of specialty as appropriate to program

Provides referral and case management

• Refers patients to internal resources according to program standards, protocol, or physician consultation
• Refers patients for specialty care as per program standards, protocol, or physician consultation
• Refers patients to primary care as appropriate
• Follows up on referrals according to site specific standards
• Case manages client care according to program standards and patients plan of care

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Unrestricted license to practice as a Physician from the NJ Division of Consumer Affairs
• Employee shall maintain registration including prescriptive authority
• Maintain Board Certification
• Maintain Active CPR
• Ability to stand, swift waling, lifting, moving patients as needed

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITES:

OTHER JOB DUTIES:

The above job description is not to be construed as a complete listing of the assignments that may be given to any employee, nor are such assignments restricted to those precisely listed in the description.

EOE