Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant - Duke Children's Primary Care

As a part of Duke Health’s outpatient clinic network, you will enjoy competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits plans, convenient work hours, and many opportunities for career advancement. Become a part of a team that values and invests in you.

 

Duke Advanced Practice Highlights:

• The nation’s first Physician Assistant Program was created at Duke in 1965 and is consistently ranked No. 1 in the country.
• The Duke School of Nursing is consistently ranked as one of the top nursing schools and their MSN and DNP programs offers eight advanced practice registered nurse majors and specialty certifications, as well as post master’s certificates and certification alignment programs.
• Commitment to ongoing learning for APPs through annual CME funding and access to high-quality Duke CME offerings including APP Grand Rounds and a professional advancement program.  APPs are leaders in multiple arenas within Duke.
• Duke offers APPs opportunities to practice within team based integrative care in a tremendous variety of specialties.  APPs are expected to work to top of scope in order to contribute to Duke’s missions which include clinical practice, education, and research.
• Practice locations can include Duke Health’s three hospitals or over 140 primary care and specialty care clinics throughout North Carolina.

 

 

JOB LOCATION  

Duke Children's Primary Care North Durham - Duke Medical Plaza North Duke Street - 3116 N. Duke Street - Durham, NC;

Occasionally Duke Children's Primary Care Brier Creek - Duke Medical Plaza Brier Creek - 10211 Alm St - Raleigh, NC; Duke Pediatrics South Durham - 234 Crooked Creek Pkwy - Durham, NC;

 

We are seeking an Advanced Practice Provider (APP) for the Duke Department of Pediatrics community-based practice Duke Children's Primary Care North Durham as well as Duke Children's Primary Care Brier Creek and Duke Pediatrics South Durham all in Durham, NC. We are seeking an individual with general pediatric experience and excellent communication and clinical skills who can work as an integral member of a multidisciplinary team.

 

The Duke Children’s Primary Care APP provides direct patient care services and performs medical acts under the supervision of the Duke Children’s Primary Care physicians.  The APP performs physical exams, conducts diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, orders and schedules laboratory studies, professional consultations, collects and documents data, and prescribes appropriate interventions and medications in order to coordinate patient care. Explains the necessity, nature, preparation and anticipated effects of scheduled diagnostic and therapeutic services to the patient and/or family. 

 

Primary commitment will be for eight direct patient care sessions per week to support the work of the Duke Children’s Primary Care North Duke Street clinic. The remaining two sessions per week are administrative non-patient care activities. Weekend clinic responsibility consists of a minimum of six weekends per year dependent on business need, which includes evaluating and treating newborn, well, sick and urgent care patients on Saturdays.

 

Prefer 1+ years of experience as an APP and/or RN in a primary pediatrics clinical setting.

 

JOb RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide primary care for a panel of patients from birth to 23 years of age.
• Coordinate the activities of the multidisciplinary primary health care team in an outpatient setting to ensure optimal patient care services, including but not limited to management of well patient care and follow-up, sick, urgent and newborn care including weight checks.
• Supports patient self-management of disease and behavior modification interventions.

 

COMPREHENSIVE PATIENT CARE

• Participates in practice-based and division team meetings and quality improvement initiatives.

• Coordinates continuity of patient care with external healthcare organizations and facilities, including hospital admission and discharge, ER visits and referrals from the primary care provider to a specialty care provider.
• Conducts comprehensive, preventive patient screenings.

 

EDUCATION ACTIVITIES

• Assesses educational needs of patients and/or their families and provides education interventions as indicated and develops appropriate teaching tools as needed.
• Utilizes appropriate resources within Duke to ensure all patient’s and/or their family’s education materials meet required standards. 
• Assists in teaching trainees rotating through on primary care pediatric rotations.

 

JOB ELIGIBILITY REQUIRMENTS

 

Education           

• Nurse Practitioners:  Work requires completion of an accredi