Family Nurse Practitioner
CurrentPractice sites: Intensive Care Unit at Duke Regional Hospital in Durham, NC and Duke Raleigh Hospital in Raleigh, NC •Focus on the adult patient population. Provides direct patient care services for complex critically ill adult patients in the Intensive Care setting, in collaboration with the ICU attending physicians. •Performs physical exams, collects and documents data, conducts diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, orders and schedules laboratory studies and professional consultations, prescribes appropriate interventions and medications, coordinates the care and discharge of patients, and provides direct patient care services. • Perform necessary skills to include, but not limited to, placement of central venous catheters, arterial lines, advanced airway placement, lumbar puncture and placement of post pyloric feeding tube.