The Preceptor's Handbook for Supervising Physician Assistants

, by Danielsen, Randy; Ballweg, Ruth; Vorvick, Linda; Sefcik, Donald

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ISBN: 9780763773618 | 0763773611
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 6/10/2011

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The Preceptor#x19;s Handbook for Supervising Physician Assistants is a helpful guide for clinical preceptors of physician Assistant (PA) students during their educational program and for physicians who supervise PAs in their practice. All states have enabling legislation governing Physician Assistants to have supervision language. All educational programs for PAs have significant clinical components. This guide will assist the physician and physician assistant with information and skills in being an excellent preceptor for students and a supervising clinican for graduate PAs.

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Contributing Authors	p. xiii
An Introduction to the Profession	p. 1
Changing Healthcare Delivery Systems	p. 3
The US Health System	p. 3
Measures of Health Care	p. 4
Stakeholders	p. 7
Demographics of the Physician Assistant Profession	p. 15
Growing Physician Assistant Specialization	p. 21
International Development	p. 27
Physician Assistant Economics	p. 37
Practice Economics and Fundamentals	p. 38
The Surgical PA	p. 43
Generational Factors	p. 49
Baby Boomers	p. 50
Generation X	p. 50
Generation Y (Millennial)	p. 51
Precepting Physician Assistant Students	p. 61
An Introduction to Physician Assistant Education	p. 63
Competency-Based Training	p. 65
Clinical Experience and/or Degrees	p. 66
Administrative Structure	p. 66
Admissions	p. 67
Didactic Education	p. 68
Medicine and Patient Care	p. 69
Behavioral and Social Sciences	p. 69
Information Literacy	p. 70
Health Policy	p. 70
Ethics	p. 70
Physician Assistant Professional Issues	p. 71
Clinical Rotations	p. 71
New Content	p. 72
Licensing and Credentialing	p. 73
The Clinical Experience	p. 75
Precepting Requirements, Guidelines, and Responsibilities	p. 83
Clinical Teaching Guidelines	p. 87
Planning	p. 88
Orientation	p. 88
Educational Objectives	p. 89
Oversight	p. 89
Teaching	p. 89
Student Evaluation	p. 91
Critical Thinking	p. 91
Pitfalls in Clinical Teaching	p. 92
Student Responsibilities and Guidelines	p. 95
Student Responsibilities to the Preceptor, the Site, and the Patients	p. 95
Students' Responsibilities to the Program	p. 99
Students' Responsibilities to Themselves	p. 102
Student Clinical Evaluations	p. 105
Professional Behavior	p. 111
Component Parts of Professionalism	p. 113
Supervising Physician Assistants	p. 121
Hiring a Physician Assistant	p. 123
Assessment of the Organization/Practice Culture	p. 124
Evaluation of Billing/Productivity Systems	p. 124
Job Description	p. 125
Supervision and Quality Assurance	p. 126
Employment Status	p. 127
Compensation Plan	p. 127
Physician Assistant Practice Act and Law	p. 128
Employment Contract	p. 128
Finding a Physician Assistant and Making the Offer	p. 129
Legal Aspects of Clinical Supervision	p. 131
Background and Basic Principles	p. 131
Scope of Practice	p. 132
Physician Assistants as Agents of the Physician	p. 134
Limits on Numbers of Physician
Assistants Supervised	p. 135
The Supervising Physician	p. 135
Physician Liability	p. 137
Common Sense Supervision	p. 139
Hospital Credentialing and Privileging	p. 145
Ethical Issues in Supervision	p. 151
Medical Liability and Physician Assistants	p. 161
Specific Practice Settings	p. 167
Ambulatory Care and Emergency Medicine	p. 169
Hospital-Based Practice	p. 175
Assisted Living/Nursing Home Practice	p. 181
Geographically Remote Practice Site	p. 185
Additional Resources	p. 191
Sample Student Evaluation Instruments for Clinical Education	p. 193
Index	p. 211
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