Emergency medicine, physician assistant vs hospitalist physician assistant

Differences between emergency medicine, physician assistant and hospitalist physician assistant duties and responsibilities

Emergency medicine, physician assistant example responsibilities.

• Manage a wide variety of chronic health problems including hypertension, diabetes, endocrine disorders and psychiatric illness.
• Manage lower acuity patients independently and staff higher acuity patients with an attending physician.
• Evaluate and manage patients with acute illnesses/injuries in a fast pace, dynamic emergency department environment.
• Develop and teach a diabetes education course in Spanish.
• Assist with lumbar punctures, central lines, intubation and resuscitation.
• Execute emergency endotracheal intubation, passage of NG tubes and long intestinal tubes, CPR and defibrillation.
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Hospitalist physician assistant example responsibilities.

• Manage preoperative orthopedic patients, patients in the post anesthesia care unit and postoperative patients.
• Manage complex treatment regimens following diagnosis with medication alterations to improve overall morbidity and mortality.
• Perform patient history and physicals, chronic illness maintenance, medication monitoring, routine health maintenance, lab and EKG interpretation
• Cover ICU, Med-Surg, cardiology, oncology and general medicine floors.
• Perform basic procedures such as suturing, splinting, and gynecological exams.
• Post surgical ICU which includes the continual critical and noncritical care in the post surgical ICU.
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