Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant: Duke Family Medicine

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Duke Health Integrated Practice

Duke Health Integrated Practice comprises more than 110 primary and specialty outpatient clinics, extending the reach of the Duke Health mission across the state of North Carolina.

Job Location

Duke Family Medicine Center – 2100 Erwin Road – Durham NC; Duke Regional Hospital – 3643 N. Roxboro Street – Durham, NC 

We are seeking an Advanced Practice Provider (Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant) for Duke Family Medicine Center in Durham, NC to provide acute, chronic, preventive, prenatal and newborn care for new and established patients of all ages in a primary care setting as well as rotations at the Duke Regional Hospital Newborn Nursery. The clinic has a long track record of working with APPs who offer full-scope primary care in an environment that values collaboration and innovation.

Primary hours will be Monday through Friday with hours flexible to meet the needs of the patients.

Job Responsibilities

• Primary care of complex undifferentiated patients (all age groups), acute and chronic illnesses in person and virtually as necessary).

• Health maintenance examinations on patients of all ages
• Care for newborns at Durham Regional Hospital
• Opportunity to participate in an “e-provider” virtual clinic (an acute care experience where patients need quick access to answers of low-risk medical conditions.
• Care for a group of patients assigned to them (panel)
• Conduct detailed medical history assessment
• Conduct physical exams
• Medication reconciliation
• Order diagnostic testing (e.g., lab work, EKG, cardiac echo, imaging procedures, etc.) when indicated.
• Coordinate specialty referrals as indicated
• Provide consultation to patient and/or family to include necessity, prep, nature and effects of ordered diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
• Provide patient and/or family education regarding diabetes, nutrition, smoking cessation, pain management, etc.
• Follow up on ordered laboratory studies, diagnostic procedures, etc.
• Prescribe treatment or medication when indicated.
• Document all activity in patient’s electronic medical record to include comments about diagnosis and prognosis, diagnostic testing, patient condition, treatments and response to therapies and interventions, etc.
• Participate in clinic research activities if needed.
• Perform telehealth visits if needed.
• Work with a supervising physician, other providers and colleagues in the practice
• Perform any other related duties required to service primary care scheduled or walk-inpatients

Experience  

Prefer 1+ years Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant work experience in a primary care setting. If new graduate, clinical rotations in a family medicine/primary care setting. 

Education           

• 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.

Certification 

• BLS required.

License                

• Nurse Practitioners:  Must have current or compact RN licensure & NP approval to practice in the state of North Carolina. 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.