Physician assistant student vs emergency medicine, physician assistant

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

Physician assistant student example responsibilities.

• Perform therapeutic procedures by administering injections and immunizations; suturing; managing wounds and infections.
• Work closely with patients to manage their depression and anxiety beginning with initial diagnosis to med-initiation and follow-up care.
• Obtain a detail medical and psychiatry history from each patient.
• Train in current cardiology standards of care and appropriate medications.
• Conduct procedure-based interventions including suturing, incision and drainage, splinting, and administration of local anesthesia.
• Perform well and sick visits, consisting of both comprehensive and focuse history and physical examinations of pediatric patients, respectively.
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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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