POSITION SUMMARY
Serves as a rheumatologist at the Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation, which involves performance of medical care services for adult patients in the hospital, clinic, and designated health care facilities.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Primary assignments include providing comprehensive care for adult patients with rheumatological conditions. The health care provided primarily involves patients who have common rheumatological ailments and disabilities where the courses of treatment are well known. The scope of health care delivered is typically determined by the availability of facilities or by referrals for patients requiring more specialized diagnostic or treatment services.
Assumes responsibility for the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of adult patients with rheumatological diseases. Typical, but not all-inclusive assignments include the following:
- Conducts outpatient rheumatology clinic appropriate to the patient’s underlying disease and treatment plan, including current symptoms. Reviews the patient’s medication, diet, therapy course, adherence to management plan and modifies regimen as indicated. Appropriately instructs and counsels patients and family members as required.
- Upon request for consultation from hospitalists, interviews and examines hospitalized patients, reviews past medical history, and requests and/or performs diagnostic tests and examinations deemed necessary to obtain all possible information related to each case. Makes preliminary diagnoses, directs, prescribes or provides treatment, or arranges for specialized care or patient referral as required. Bases decisions upon information obtained, professional medical knowledge, skills, policies and procedures. Provides emergency care as required. Provides definitive management in all medical categories for cases that do not require referral.
- Prepares appropriate medical records for all patients seen to assure the accumulation and organization of all pertinent clinical data needed to provide comprehensive medical care. Communicate with patients’ primary care provider, other physicians, hospitals, and other individuals and facilities as needed.
- Refers patients to appropriate contracted medical or other government facilities, providing full clinical information for care and diagnostic procedures that cannot be adequately provided here. Coordinates and integrates information obtained into the ongoing Health Care Program at TCRHCC and assures the provision of timely follow-up care as required.
- Works closely with allied health professionals (i.e., Community Health Nurse, Social Workers, Health Educator, etc.) to utilize and coordinate the services of other health care professionals in the management of the patient’s care related to rheumatological disease.
- Responsible for electronic health records data entry pertinent to patient service role.
- Ensure proper PPE is always worn while on duty including but not limited to, face mask, gloves, gown, isolation gown, NIOSH-approved N95 filtering facepiece respirator or higher, if available), and eye or face shield.
- Complete all donning and doffing tasks in a safe acceptable method and discard of used PPE accordingly. (see CDC website for most current updates)
- Complete task training for all routine cleaning and decontamination processes for all surfaces contaminated by a communicable disease to ensure a high level of patient, visitor, employee and external customer satisfaction
- Performs other duties as assigned.
MENTAL AND PHYSICAL EFFORT
The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical:
Must be able to walk several hundred yards quickly, write well, hear well and see well for complete diagnostic skills. Must have ability for far vision, near vision, color vision, depth perception, seeing fine details, hearing normal speech, hearing overhead pages, and use of telephone. Must be able to continually lift up to 10lbs and occasionally push/pull up to 10lbs. Must have ability of simple/firm grasping and fine manipulation of both hands and use of keyboard.
Mental:
Must be able to handle the stresses of rural medicine with critically ill patients. Must be able to continually cope with high levels of stress, make decisions under high pressure, cope with anger/fear/hostility of others in a calm way, concentrate, handle high degree of flexibility, handle multiple priorities in stressful situation, work alone, demonstrate high degree of patience, adapt to shift work, and work in areas that are close and crowded. Must accept a flexible schedule to meet unit needs.
Environmental:
May continually be exposed to infectious diseases.
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