Surgery, Atrium Health Seeking Hybrid Daytime APP in Concord, NC

Job Description

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If it’s possible, you will find it at Atrium Health—the leading community-focused academic healthcare system serving North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. We invite Physicians to discover all that we can do when we bring healing hearts, inquisitive minds, and progressive visionaries together.

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Position Details:

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  Hybrid

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  Daytime, 10 hour shift model

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  Equivalent of one week of call every 4 weeks - 5pm - 7am

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Essential Functions:

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  Performs initial and periodic medical history, physical examinations, and daily assessments.

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  Records findings of examinations, assessments and plan of care.

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  Performs minor office-based medical and/or surgical procedures.

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  Writes appropriate prescriptions and administers medications.

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  Orders and interprets daily laboratory and radiology examinations.

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  Determines treatment plan for patient.

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  Documents all patient encounters, records observations, interventions, and actions in a medically appropriate manner on the patient's medical record.

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  Acts as a patient advocate for the population served.

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  Attends, participates and contributes to group/practice meetings and development of policies and procedures when requested.

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Physical Requirements
\n Work requires walking, standing, sitting, lifting, reaching, bending, stooping, pushing and pulling. Must be able to lift and support the weight of 35 pounds in handling patients, medical equipment, and supplies. Must speak English fluently and in understandable terms. Must possess intact sense of sight, hearing, smell, touch, and finger dexterity. Must have the ability to react and perform in stressful situations. Schedule primarily composed of weekday shifts, greater than 200 hours of weekend and/or night coverage, but less than 400 hours .

Education, Experience and Certifications.
\n Must have or be eligible for a DEA license. Approved to practice as a Nurse Practitioner in the state one works. Eligible for prescriptive authority application through the Board of Nursing or Medical Board in SC required. BLS for Healthcare Provider from AHA required with expiration date greater than 90 days from date of beginning practice. Demonstrates appropriate critical thinking, interpersonal skills, and the ability to prioritize and concentrate. \n

 

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Nurse Practitioner

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Master's Degree or Doctorate of Nursing Practice required. License to practice as a Registered Nurse required. Certification in the area of practice from a nationally recognized certifying body required. ACNP, AGACNP, AGNP, PNP, or PNP-AC board certification preferred based population served.

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Core Competencies:

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Patient Care

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  Ability to provide patient centered care that is compassionate, appropriate and effective for the treatment of health problems and the promotion of health.

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  Medical Knowledge

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  Ability to demonstrate knowledge about established and evolving biomedical, clinical and cognate (epidemiological and social-behavioral) sciences and the application of this knowledge to patient care.

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  Practice-Based Learning and Improvement

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  Ability to investigate and evaluate patient care practices, appraise, and assimilate scientific evidence, and improve their patient care practices.

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  Interpersonal and Communication Skills

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  Ability to demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills that result in effective information exchange and teaming with patients, families, and professional associates.

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Professionalism

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  Ability to demonstrate a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities, adherence to ethical principles and sensitivity to a diverse patient population.

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  Systems-Based Practice

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  Demonstrate an awareness of and responsibilities to the larger context and system of health care and the ability to effectively call on system resources to provide care that is of optimal value.

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Education, Experience and Certification:

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Graduation from an accredited NP or PA program. Eligibility for licensure to practice as a NP or PA in the state of practice. Eligibility for prescriptive privileges and DEA license required. BLS, and ACLS from AHA required. ATLS from ACS required. Maintenance of Certification is required.

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Nurse Practitioners are required to have a Master’s Degree in Nursing or Doctorate of Nursing Practice, as well as be Certified as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner.  AGACNP certification from a nationally recognized certifying body for the population served required. 

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Physician Assistants are required to have a master’s degree and certification from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.

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PATIENT POPULATION SERVED:

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Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development and possesses the ability to respond to age specific issues and data reflective of the patient’s status. Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care for the following age groups:

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PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION:

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Will limit access to protected health information (PHI) to the information reasonably necessary to do the job.

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Will share information only on a need-to-know basis for work purposes.

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Access to verbal, written and electronic PHI for this job has been determined based on job level and job responsibility within the organization. Computerized access to PHI for this job has been determined as described above and is controlled via user ID and password.

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Reporting

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