Scope of Practice

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Scope of practice include, but are not limited to the following:

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• Membership on the medical staff, including hospital privileges and voting privilege

 

• Active and ongoing involvement in the quality improvement activities in the department of emergency medicine​

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• Taking patient histories and performing physical examinations of a patient and recording or dictating the history and physical in the medical record

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• Performing a medical screening exam

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• Performing diagnostic and therapeutic studies

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• Ordering medications; ordering and interpreting diagnostic laboratory tests, radiological studies or various other therapies. Orders may be written or verbal

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• Establishing diagnostic decision-making

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• Instructing and counseling patients regarding mental and physical health, including but not limited to the following: diet, disease, prevention, treatment and normal development

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• Referring patients to appropriate specialists, health facilities, agencies and resources. Also referring and conversing with appropriate consultants in regard to patient management

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• Performing such other tasks, not prohibited by law, in which the physician assistant has been trained and is proficient to perform

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• Writing admission orders as requested by the accepting or admitting physician per hospital and department policy

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• Performing diagnostic/therapeutic procedures, subject to state regulation and PA training/experience​