LOCUMS NP/PA Hospitalist Needed in Nags Head, NC

ECU Health Physicians and The Outer Banks Health Hospital located in Nags Head, North Carolina are seeking an experienced Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to provide locums coverage for their Hospitalist program mainly to focus on admissions, consults and co-management of ED holds and admitted patients. NP/PA must have an active NC License and DEA. New NP/PA will need to come in the day before their first scheduled shift for orientation.

Dates Coverage Is Needed:  

7pm-7am, December 26-Jan 1

Opportunity Highlights include:

• Inpatient only - will only accept candidates with inpatient experience within the last 12 months
• Established hospitalist service inclusive of 2 physicians and 4 Advanced Practice Providers
• Privileges at The Outer Banks Health Hospital
• Average total inpatient census: 17-21
• Average number of patients per day per APP: 8-10
• Average number of admissions per day: 4-6 during the day and 5-7 at night
• No critical care responsibilities
• Locums will respond to codes but not in the ED
• Locums will not serve as back up in the Emergency Department but will consult on holds in the ED.
• BLS and ACLS are required
• Comprehensive medical staff including General Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cardiology, Orthopedics, ENT, Primary Care and Oncology
• The Outer Banks of North Carolina offers an excellent work-life balance with the ability to work and live at one of the nation’s most beautiful beach locations.

The Outer Banks Health Hospital is a full-service critical access hospital offering a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services. The hospital is designed to meet the needs of the coastal community, whose year-round population of approximately 35,000 swells to about 350,000 in the summer season. The hospital's 21-bed emergency department serves approximately 23,100 patients each year. 

The Outer Banks Health Hospital is fully accredited, provides high quality care in a compassionate environment to all patients, regardless of their ability to pay, and has been nationally recognized for outstanding patient care.

ECU Health is a mission-driven, 1,708-bed academic health care system serving more than 1.4 million people in 29 eastern North Carolina counties. The not-for-profit system is comprised of 13,000 team members, nine hospitals and a physician group that encompasses over 1,100 academic and community providers practicing in over 185 primary and specialty clinics located in more than 110 locations. The flagship ECU Health Medical Center, a Level I Trauma Center, and ECU Health Maynard Children’s Hospital serve as the primary teaching hospitals for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. ECU Health and the Brody School of Medicine share a combined academic mission to improve the health and well-being of eastern North Carolina through patient care, education and research. www.ecuhealth.org

ECU Health Physicians includes an academic practice model (ECU employment) and a community practice model (health system employment). There is shared leadership and shared services to support the overall group and to ensure alignment for clinical care, research, education and strategy.

This innovative structure creates opportunities within ECU Health Physicians ranging from acute to ambulatory, academic practice to community practice, regional to rural, and everything in between.

For more information, please contact Joyce Best at (252) 847-6044 or Joyce.Best@ecuhealth.org.

For more information, please contact Cassandra Bryant at (252) 847-6756 or Cassandra.Bryant@ecuhealth.org