App Hospitalist - Np Or Pa Duke Regional Hospital - Full-Time

Duke Regional Hospital offers the personal touch and hometown feel of a community hospital while serving as an essential arm of internationally recognized Duke University Health System. Duke Regional has served Durham, Orange, Person, Granville and Alamance counties for more than 45 years. To be successful at caring for our community and have a strong reputation among patients who seek our care, we have 3,500 team members who work together to provide exceptional, compassionate and equitable healthcare 24/7. We are a place of learning and acceptance for team members just starting their careers, as well as an institution of family culture and professional development for employees who have served for decades in our hospital units. Duke Regional has 388 inpatient beds and offers a comprehensive range of medical, surgical and diagnostic services, including orthopedics, weight-loss surgery, women's services, and heart and vascular services. We also offer care at our Duke Rehabilitation Institute, Davis Ambulatory Surgical Center, Duke Ambulatory Surgery Center Arringdon, Health Services Center, and Duke Behavioral Health Center North Durham. In fiscal year 2021, Duke Regional Hospital admitted 16,422 patients, performed 18,152 surgeries and welcomed 2,673 babies into the world. U.S. News & World Report ranked Duke Regional Hospital as #9 in North Carolina and #4 in the Raleigh-Durham area for 2021-22. The Human Rights Campaign consistently names us a Healthcare Equality Leader, and we are a Joint Commission-accredited and Magnet-designated hospital.

APP HOSPITALIST MEDICINE

Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

Job Location - Duke Regional Hospital

Job Summary

Hospitalist APP Providers in the Hospital Medicine Department are clinicians who provide clinical care for patients admitted at Duke University Health System hospitals. They support surgical and specialty services through consultative general internal medicine practice, as well as teach staff, graduate medical trainees, and medical students on inpatient educational rotations.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Hospitalist APP Providers will engage in direct patient care activities and medical/clinical practice as the principal component of his/her overall professional responsibility within the Department. Patient care activities will include, but are not be limited to the following:

• Align your work with other Hospital Medicine initiatives.
• Day-to-day patient contact/rounding/care management that actively encourages and includes professional input from all members of the patient care team
• When appropriate, make determination of readiness and planning for discharge for inpatients in your care.
• Assessment, evaluation, diagnostic determination, on-going treatment and clinical management of patients
• When necessary make referral for consultation
• Extensive and on-going communications with community primary care physicians who routinely manage the care of patients currently in your care within the hospital
• Completes all clinical and professional records and documentation accurately and in a timely manner to assure compliance with local, state and federal regulatory, licensure and accreditation requirements.
• Order medications and therapeutic treatments when warranted
• Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.
• Direct contact and consultation with patient family members, friends, advocates, and others to ensure effective communication of patient status and care plans, and to encourage/ support an open visitor-friendly environment within the hospital environment.
• Conduct risk assessment
• Work to create a positive work culture within cross-departmental teams
• Authorize transfers
• Direct care planning

Job Eligibility Requirements

Education

PA: Graduate of ARC accredited Physician Assistant Program

NP: Graduate of MSN or DNP Nurse Practitioner Program for adult care

Certification

PA: PA-C

NP: AGACNP, ACNP, AGNP, FNP

License

PA: Current unrestricted medical license issued by NCMB with authorization to practice as a PA.

NP: Current unrestricted RN license issued by NCBON with authorization to practice as a NP.

Both: Federal and State prescriptive authority

Current ACLS certification required before hire

Experience

Inpatient APP experience preferred, but will consider new grad

Physical and mental requirements:

• Able to clearly articulate scope of practice and practices within those guidelines as an NP/PA in the state of North Carolina and within the Duke University Health System (DUHS)
• Able to record activities, document assessments, and interventions; prepare reports and presentations.
• Able to independently seek out resources and work collaboratively to solve complex problems
• Able to communicate clearly with patients, families, visitors, healthcare team, physicians, administrators, leadership, and others
• Able to navigate the Hospital and DUHS to provide clinical expertise to specific patient populations
• Able to use fine motor skills
• Able to work collaboratively with all levels of personnel
• Able to remain focused and organized
• Able to use sensory and cognitive functions to process and prioritize information, perform health assessments, treatment, and follow-up
• Able to provide leadership in clinical area of expertise and in meeting organizational goals
• Able to withstand prolonged standing and walking with the ability to move or lift at least fifty pounds
• Able to use computer and learn new software programs

Job Hours

Shifts 7A – 7P; 174 shifts per year

Duke is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.

Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essentialjob functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.