Vail Health Private

Key Responsibilities

• • Provides and manages direct patient care, including physical examinations, evaluations, assessments, diagnoses, and treatment for a specified patient population.
• • Prescribes or administers pharmaceuticals, other medications, immunizations, and treatment regimens as appropriate to assessed medical conditions.
• • Provides health and wellness advice to patients, including diet, physical activity, hygiene, and disease prevention.
• • Monitors patients' conditions and progress, re-evaluating treatments, and explains procedures and test results or prescribed treatments with patients.
• • Refers patients to specialists and to relevant patient care components as appropriate.
• • May manage the daily operations of a specific medical program, patient care unit, or research function.
• • Directs and coordinates the patient care activities of nursing and support staff as required.
• • Follows established departmental policies, procedures, and objectives, continuous quality improvement objectives, and safety, environmental, and/or infection control standards.
• • As appropriate to the position, participates in specified health promotion, education and/or prevention programs.
• • Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.