Duke University

Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - Pre-Operative Clinic APP


PayCompetitive
LocationDurham/North Carolina
Employment typeFull-Time

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  • Job Description

      Req#: 242995

      At Duke Health, we're driven by a commitment to compassionate care that changes the lives of patients, their loved ones, and the greater community. No matter where your talents lie, join us and discover how we can advance health together.

      About Duke Regional Hospital
      Pursue your passion for caring with Duke Regional Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, which ranks as the number four hospital in the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina area, according to U.S. News and World Report for 2023-2024. Duke Regional Hospital is the second largest of Duke Health's three hospitals and offers a comprehensive range of medical, surgical, and diagnostic services, including orthopedics, weight-loss surgery, women's services, and heart and vascular services.

      Preoperative Clinic APP

      Nurse Practitioner

      Job Location – Duke Regional Hospital

      Job Summary

      The Preoperative Clinic APP provides a thorough evaluation of a patient’s medical/surgical history and optimizes modifiable risk factors prior to planned procedures and surgeries requiring anesthesia. They also provide medical co-management to postoperative patients in the inpatient setting with the support of a hospitalist.

      Emphasis is placed on cardiovascular function, respiratory conditions, anemia, smoking cessation, diabetes, nutrition, perioperative geriatric considerations and obstructive sleep apnea screening. Position requires screening for all types of procedures and surgeries within a broad range of specialties and in all age groups.

      Job Duties and Responsibilities

      • Conduct detailed and thorough medical/surgical history assessment
      • Physical exams
      • Medication reconciliation
      • Provide perioperative instructions/guidance
      • Order testing (e.g., lab work, EKG, cardiac echo, imaging procedures, etc.)
      • Arrange consults (diabetes, nutrition, smoking cessation, anemia, and cardiology, etc.)
      • Prescribe treatment or services to further optimize the patient prior to planned procedure, if needed.
      • Follow up on ordered laboratory studies, diagnostic procedures, etc.
      • Provide explanation as to the necessity and the results of ordered testing and procedures.
      • Participate in clinic research activities if needed.
      • Work with a supervising physician from the Department of Medicine.
      • Any other related duties required to service pre-surgical and/or pre-anesthesia care
      • Provide medical co-management to postoperative patients in the inpatient setting

      Job Eligibility Requirements

      Education

      Graduate of an accredited MSN or DNP Nurse Practitioner Program. Will consider pending NP graduates. Note: PAs are not being considered for this role.

      Certification

      NP will treat ages 14 and up: FNP, ANP, AGNP may apply.

      No PAs are being considered for this job.

      Note: BLS/ACLS certification is required before hire.

      Licensure

      Current unrestricted RN license issued by or recognized by the NCBON with approval to practice as NP.

      Experience

      Recent board certified APP graduates or pending graduates with no experience will be considered. 3 years of RN experience strongly preferred. Acute care RN experience, preferred.

      Job Hours

      Full Time - 40 hours per week, approximately 7:15am – 3:45pm Monday-Friday

      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.

  • About the company

      Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina.

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