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Estimated Pay $19 per hour
Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Frederiksted, Virgin Islands

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Job Description
Essential Functions:
  • Provide direct and indirect patient care services, under the supervision of a physician, within the written and approved standardized procedures.
  • Perform complete physical examinations, compile thorough medical history, and initiate appropriate diagnostic and screening tests.
  • Accurately diagnose common medical problems and initiate treatment or make referral to physician as indicated.
  • Facilitate physician's referrals of patients to the appropriate health facilities, agencies, and resources in the community.
  • Explain diagnoses and treatments to clients from a culturally diverse population.
  • Assess clients in a variety of settings and provide treatment for common medical problems.
  • Comprehensive physical assessment; evaluating, diagnosing, and treating new and existing patient's medical conditions.
  • Initiating and interpreting labs and x-ray studies including CTs & MRIs.
  • Performs medical procedures.
  • Prescribes and refers patients for specialized consultation.
  • Uses prescriptive authority to write prescription medicines for patients.
  • Recognize and evaluate situations that call for a physician's immediate attention and, when necessary, initiate treatment procedures
  • Accurately documents findings, notes and results in an Electronic Health Records system.
  • Write/Dictate progress notes on patients' charts indicating patient status and treatment procedures performed.
  • Conducting follow-up patient care.
  • Providing health education to patients and families.
  • Supervising and/or coordinating the activities of patient care and support staff within the health care center.
  • Teaching and training illness prevention.
  • Actively participates in community health education.
  • Is among front line medical providers in emergency disaster services.