Pain Physician

ESSENTIAL COMPETENCIES/PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS: Include, but are not limited to, the
required behaviors associated with the standards listed below and competencies related to those standards:
1. Demonstrates competence related to the application of our core values.
2. Practices all facets of Health and Safety.
3. Promotes and maintains patient health by providing medical services.
4. Identifies short-term and long-range patient care issues.
5. Recommends options and courses of action for patient care.
6. Assesses patient health by interviewing patients and performing physical examinations including
obtaining, updating, and studying medical histories.
7. Determines abnormal conditions by administering or ordering diagnostic tests, such as X-rays and
laboratory studies, and interpreting test results.
8. Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
9. Performs therapeutic procedures by administering injections and immunizations, suturing, and
infections.
10. Instructs and counsels patients by providing normal growth and development information and
providing counseling on emotional problems of daily living.
11. Provides a community of care by developing and implementing patient management plans.
12. Works with an interdisciplinary team of medical professionals that includes other physicians,
psychologists, nurses, and physical therapists.
13. Prescribes medications or rehabilitative services perform pain-relieving procedures, counsel
patients and families, or provides consultative services to patients.
14. Educates patients and family members about pain medicine to help eliminate misconceptions and
misunderstandings.
15. Maintains a safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and
regulations.
16. Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.
17. Complies with federal, state, and local legal and professional requirements by studying existing and
new legislation; anticipating future legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements, and advising
management on needed actions.
18. Participates in regulatory reform, especially when laws and regulations apply to pain management
when warranted.
19. Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing
professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional
societies.
20. Develops healthcare team staff by providing information, educational opportunities, and
experimental growth opportunities.
21. Comply with applicable laws and regulations.
22. Comply with Mays & Schnapp Code of Conduct, policies and procedures, and compliance training