Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Vs Physician Assistant

Differences between psychiatric nurse practitioner and physician assistant duties and responsibilities

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Example Responsibilities.

• Lead quality assessment of client's QA / QC processes, organizations, and test environments.
• Manage outpatient pacemaker and ICD interrogations and remote transmission follow-ups.
• Manage pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment of diabetes and provide prescriptions and education before discharge from the hospital.
• Obtain necessary certifications, including child abuse clearance, CPR, and nonviolent crisis intervention training.
• Perform rapid triage, psychiatric nursing assessment and medication administration.
• Examine or conduct laboratory or diagnostic tests on patients to provide information on general physical condition and mental disorder.
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Physician Assistant Example Responsibilities.

• Manage a variety of acute and chronic conditions especially asthma, allergies, injuries, and infectious diseases.
• Manage chronic conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, ASCVD, chronic back and joint pains, depression, and anxiety.
• Manage patient surgical care throughout the continuum of care from pre-op, to discharge planning, including ambulatory and hospital in-patients.
• Attain pertinent history & physicals for obstetrics and gynecological acute and preventative visits.
• Work closely with patients to manage their depression and anxiety beginning with initial diagnosis to med-initiation and follow-up care.
• Aid in the acute management of trauma patients including obtaining appropriate studies, suturing, and CPR.
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