NURSE PRACTITIONER or PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT- Duke Cardiology Wake County
Duke Cardiology - Wake County

Duke Cardiology is recruiting to build a hospitalist team of Advanced Practice Providers to support 24/7 inpatient rounding and direct patient care activities in Wake County at WakeMed Raleigh and WakeMed Cary.

This team provides 24hrs/day and 7 days/week coverage, including holidays and weekends on a rotational basis. Work schedules will be 14, 12 hour shifts per month.

Schedule options include:
Days rotating nights (7a-7p alternating 7p-7a)
Straight nights (7p-7a)
Night Weekend Option 7p-7a to include every Saturday/Sunday night with an additional weeknight shift.
Schedules may be changed by administrative or clinical leadership to meet department needs

Duke Advanced Practice Providers, (APP) is a Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA) who provides direct patient care services and performs medical acts as a NP or PA, under the supervision of the supervisory physician to patients on the cardiology service. This position will work with cardiology patients on the Cardiology Service including general cardiology, Electrophysiology (EP), and Heart Failure (HF) patients. Areas of clinical work include WakeMed Raleigh and WakeMed Cary Hospital inpatient units and Emergency Department, the Cardiovascular Short Stay Unit/Observation units. The Cardiology APP performs admissions, physical exams, collects and documents data, conducts diagnostic and therapeutic procedures within scope, orders and schedules laboratory studies and professional consultations, prescribes appropriate interventions and medications, coordinates the care and discharge of patients, and provides direct patient care services. The Cardiology APP contributes to excellence in patient care, research, teaching, and provides leadership to the organization.

The APP will:
• Evaluate new patients, consults and established patients on the cardiovascular service as well as diagnose, treat and manage common conditions in the cardiovascular patient population.
• Perform an appropriate history and physical exam on all assigned patients. The APP will write progress notes; prepare patient workups and summaries noting pertinent positive and negative findings; a psychosocial history will be obtained relevant to patient care. The APP will assume responsibility for developing therapeutic relationships withpatients.
• Facilitate and order diagnostic studies including echocardiograms, cardio lite stress test, magnetic resonance imaging and cardiac catheterization if indicated, review with attending MD.
• Order and schedule laboratory studies and diagnostic procedures. Explain necessity, preparation, and nature and anticipated effects of scheduled diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to the patient and family.
• Work closely with the inpatient rounding teams including attending's, APP's, residents, and fellows to appropriately allocate workload based on daily census, clinical and operational needs.
• Assist in the training of new employees, students and fellow trainees, to the limits of competence, and actively participate in educational conferences.
• Participate in evaluations with the primary supervising physician weekly for the first month after initial hire then monthly for the first six months of a new practice engagement, and a minimum of every six months thereafter. Any complications will be monitored on a monthly basis through routine quality assurance conferences.
• Discharge all assigned admitted/procedural/surgical patients, as directed by the Attending physician, including, but not limited to, completing discharge summary, patient education, patient wound care instructions, and perform medication reconciliation including prescriptions and entering discharge orders and follow-up.

Requisition Number
401520987

Location
Raleigh

Duke Entity
MEDICAL CENTER

Job Code
1129 NURSE PRACTITIONER

Job Family Level
78

Exempt/Non-Exempt
Exempt

Full Time / Part Time
FULL TIME

Regular / Temporary
Regular

Shift
First/Day

Minimum Qualifications
Duke University 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.
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Essential Physical Job Functions:Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essential job functions that require specific physical and/ormental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.
Education:
PA: Requires graduation from a Physician Assistant program accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) or its predecessor agencies.
NP: Requires completion of accredited graduate level Nurse Practitioner program.

Licensure:
NP: Current licensure as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina and approval to practice as an NP.
PA: Current licensure as a PA in the state of North Carolina

Certification:
PA: National Commission on Certification of PAs (NCCPA) certification is required
NP: National certification as an NP is required

Experience:
Strongly prefer candidate with at least one year of experience as an APP, preferably in cardiology, however, will consider new graduates with cardiology rotations.


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

Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essential job 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.

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