Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant Resident - Emergency Medicine

Duke Careers•Durham, NC

8d•Onsite

About The Position

Join one of the nation’s leading Advanced Practice Emergency Medicine training programs at Duke Emergency Medicine—designed to accelerate your transition into high-acuity, top-of-scope clinical practice. This is a 12-month intensive residency training program administered by the Department of Emergency Medicine at Duke University Hospital. Residents are credentialed as full members of the medical team and are involved in all aspects of preventative, diagnostic, and therapeutic patient care. The resident will attend lectures, seminars, and skills laboratories and participate in clinical, hands-on patient care with appropriate oversight by the supervising physician and staff advanced practice providers.

Requirements

Completion of an accredited Nurse Practitioner program, with a Doctorate or master’s degree in nursing.
Completion of an accredited Physician Assistant program.
A bachelor’s degree required for Physician Assistants.
BLS / ACLS required.
Current or compact RN licensure in the State of North Carolina for Nurse Practitioners.
National certification as a nurse practitioner required prior to employment for Nurse Practitioners.
Licensed in the State of North Carolina for Physician Assistants.
Certified as a Physician Assistant by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.

Nice To Haves

Critical Care / Acute Care / Emergency Nurse Practitioner master’s degree or completion of ACNP/CCNP/ENP post-graduate program strongly preferred for Nurse Practitioners.
Master’s degree strongly preferred for Physician Assistants.
PALS completed withing 3 months of hire.
Certification as an Acute Care, Critical Care or Emergency Nurse Practitioner strongly preferred for Nurse Practitioners.

Responsibilities

In collaboration with attending physician(s), provides direct clinical services for critically ill patients according to established protocols and utilizing evidence-based clinical practice standards.
Performs triage, physical exams, collects and documents data, conducts diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, orders and schedules laboratory studies, diagnostic procedures and professional consultations, prescribes appropriate interventions and medications, coordinates the care of patients, and provides direct patient care services.
Formulates and implements treatment plans for acute illness management in collaboration with the attending physician(s).
Analyzes clinical practice patterns so to provide the best medical care and to increase effectiveness and efficiency.
Communicates verbally and in writing all pertinent patient information to supervising MD, nursing staff, patient resource manager, home health agency, and other relevant healthcare providers.
Provides timely documentation in the electronic medical record of all relevant data including results of diagnostic tests; laboratory results; patients’ condition and response to therapies/interventions; communications with physician colleagues.
Attend lectures, seminars, and skills labs that have been designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the pathophysiology of various disease processes. Instruction will cover both general and subspecialty topics. Emphasis will be placed on didactic and clinical training in emergency medicine which will allow the fellow to gain more autonomy as they master evaluation skills, knowledge of disease processes, and become competent in procedures necessary to practice in emergency medicine as an advanced practice provider.
In addition to classroom/laboratory instruction, the clinical curriculum will include attending weekly conferences organized by the Department of Emergency Medicine.
Clinical curriculum duties will include history and physical examinations, writing patient orders and progress notes in the hospital record, responding to and evaluating patient problems, ordering diagnostic studies, and performing invasive procedures with appropriate competence checks and oversight by the supervising physician and/or designated back-up physicians.
Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.