Physician Assistant - Duke Primary Care

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About Duke Primary Care

Pursue your passion for caring with Duke Primary Care, which offers family, adolescent, and internal medicine services as well as urgent, general pediatric, and virtual care at nearly 50 clinic locations across central North Carolina.

Job Location

MULTIPLE LOCATIONS AVAILABLE

Job Summary

Provide acute care, chronic care, preventive care and prenatal care to new and established patients of all ages in a primary care setting.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• 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-in patients

Job Eligibility Requirements

Education

NP: Graduate of an accredited MSN or DNP Nurse Practitioner Program

PA: Graduate of ARC accredited Master's Degree or Doctoral Degree Physician Assistant Program.

Certification

NP: NP-C (can be FNP, AGNP, AGPCNP, PNP-PC, etc.)

PA: PA-C

Both: AHA approved BLS certification is required before hire. ACLS and PALS must be completed after hire.

Licensure

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

PA: Current unrestricted license issued by NCMB with approval to practice as a PA

Both: Federal and State DEA license with unrestricted prescriptive authority

Experience:

Experience working as a PA or NP in a primary care setting is preferred but not required

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.)
• Provide consults (diabetes, nutrition, smoking cessation, pain management, geriatric care, sleep apnea, 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.
• Perform telehealth visits if needed.
• Work with a supervising physician from the Department of Anesthesia.
• Any other related duties required to service pre-surgical and/or pre-anesthesia care

Job Hours

• FT, salaried position
• Ability and willingness to work Monday - Friday 8a-5pm, providing up to 36 hours of direct patient care per week

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