Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant- Wake County Hematology

Duke Careers • Raleigh, NC

25d • Onsite

About The Position

As a part of Duke Health’s outpatient clinic network, you will enjoy competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits plans, convenient work hours, and many opportunities for career advancement. Become a part of a team that values and invests in you. Duke Advanced Practice Highlights: The nation’s first Physician Assistant Program was created at Duke in 1965 and is consistently ranked No. 1 in the country. The Duke School of Nursing is consistently ranked as one of the top nursing schools and their MSN and DNP programs offers eight advanced practice registered nurse majors and specialty certifications, as well as post master’s certificates and certification alignment programs. Commitment to ongoing learning for APPs through annual CME funding and access to high-quality Duke CME offerings including APP Grand Rounds and a professional advancement program. APPs are leaders in multiple arenas within Duke. Duke offers APPs opportunities to practice within team based integrative care in a tremendous variety of specialties. APPs are expected to work to top of scope in order to contribute to Duke’s missions which include clinical practice, education, and research. Practice locations can include Duke Health’s three hospitals or over 140 primary care and specialty care clinics throughout North Carolina.

Requirements

• Nurse Practitioners: Work requires completion of an accredited Nurse Practitioner program, with a Master's degree in Nursing.
• Physician Assistants: Work requires completion of an accredited Physician Assistant program. A Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree strongly preferred.
• BLS required.
• Nurse Practitioners: Must have current or compact RN licensure & NP approval to practice in the state of North Carolina. BLS required. National certification as a NP required.
• Physician Assistants: Must be licensed in the state of NC, and be certified as a Physician Assistant by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants. BLS required.
• DEA licensure with full prescriptive authority required.

Nice To Haves

• 1+ years of APP experience preferred

Responsibilities

• In collaboration with attending physicians, the NP/PA performs triage, physical exam, collects and documents data, conducts diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, orders and schedules laboratory studies, diagnostic procedures and professional consultations, prescribe appropriate interventions and medications, coordinate the care of patients and provide direct patient care services.
• Analyze clinical practice patterns so as to provide the best medical care and to increase effectiveness and efficiency
• Communicate verbally and in writing all pertinent patient information to the supervising attending, consulting physician, nurse staff, patient resource manager, home health agency and other relevant healthcare providers.
• Provide timely documentation in the electronic medical record of all relevant data including results of diagnostic tests, laboratory results, patient’s condition and response to therapies/interventions as well as communications with physician colleagues
• Provide inpatient consultation and follow up when either rounding APP is unavailable or requires additional help and be able to present the patient to the covering attending, either in person or via Telehealth.
• There may be a need for helping in setting up the inpatient Telehealth technological aides in the event the interaction is done remotely instead of in person

Benefits

• competitive compensation
• comprehensive benefits plans
• convenient work hours
• many opportunities for career advancement
• annual CME funding
• access to high-quality Duke CME offerings including APP Grand Rounds and a professional advancement program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level