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Atrium Health APP - Specialty Care - Nocturnist in Charlotte, North Carolina

Job Summary

Specialty care APPs provide services focused concentration on a single system caring for acute and chronically ill patients. Includes caring for hospitalized patients. Schedule consisting of night shifts for 90% or more of the time.

Essential Functions

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

  • Records findings of examinations, assessments and plan of care.

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

  • Writes appropriate prescriptions and administers medications.

  • Orders and interprets daily laboratory and radiology examinations.

  • Determines treatment plan for patient.

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

  • Acts as a patient advocate for the population served.

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

Physical Requirements

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

Education, Experience and Certifications.

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.

Nurse Practitioner

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.

Physician Assistant

Graduate from an accredited Physician Assistant program required; Master's Degree preferred. Certification from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants preferred.

Atrium Health is one of the nation’s leading healthcare organizations, connecting patients with on-demand care, world-class specialists and the region’s largest primary care network. A recognized leader in healthcare delivery, quality and innovation, our foundation rests on providing clinically excellent and compassionate care.

We’ve been serving our community since 1940, when we opened our doors as Charlotte Memorial Hospital. Since then, our network has grown to include more than 40 hospitals and 900 care locations ranging from doctors’ offices to behavioral health centers to nursing homes.

Our focus: Delivering the highest quality patient care, supporting medical research and education, and joining with partners outside our walls to keep our community healthy.

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