Location: Kent Campus Hospital

Status:Full Time 80 Hours

Shift: Nights

Bayhealth Medical Center is Central and Southern Delaware’s healthcare leader with hospitals in Dover (Kent Campus) and Milford (Sussex Campus), a stand-alone ED in Smyrna and a hybrid ED/Urgent Care in Milton (Bayhealth TotalCare). Bayhealth Medical Center provides a wide range of healthcare services including cardiac surgery, neurosurgery, orthopedics and rehabilitation, pediatrics, level II neonatal ICU, and women’s services. Our Kent and Sussex ED’s are level 3 trauma centers, and both are primary stroke centers. Between the three (3) ED’s we see about 108,000 patients a year (Kent 55,000; Sussex 33,000; Smyrna 20,000). We are COMMITED to provide excellent, compassionate care to our many ED patients, providing them with a comforting experience in their time of need and crisis. The Bayhealth Emergency Physician group (BEP) fosters a collaborative and positive environment and work together as a team/family. We use evidence-based medicine in our daily practice and would like for you to become a member of this amazing and committed team. Additionally, Bayhealth Medical Center is affiliated with the Penn Cancer Network and the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Orthopedics New Graduate Medical Education programs for physicians – teaching institutions are centers that value growth, education and collaboration.

Bayhealth Medical Center Kent Campus is 90 minutes from Philadelphia, Washington, DC and Baltimore. Our Sussex Campus is 30 minutes to the Delaware beaches and relaxation in the sand!

Bayhealth Medical Center offers competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Malpractice Insurance Coverage
• Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Matching 401(k)/403(b) Plans
• CME reimbursement
• Health, Dental, Vision, Disability and Life Insurance

Bayhealth Medical Center is currently seeking APC’s (NP & PA) for a variety of our outpatient clinics and our emergency departments. Whether you are seeking work/life balance or the excitement of never knowing what is coming in the door next, we can help connect you to your future!

Emergency Medicine (CDU schedules are a combination of days and nights, 7a-7p and 7p-7a, and 12 shifts per month. The ED works 9 to 10 hour shifts, a combination of days and nights, and est. 16 shifts per month)

• Emergency Department
• Clinical Decision Unit

APC General Summary:

Works in collaboration with an emergency department physician to assess the physical and/or mental needs of patients admitted to the emergency department. Orders, interprets, and records results of clinical tests and reports results to physicians. Prescribes medications and makes recommendations for other therapeutic forms of treatment. Emergency Department APC’s should collaborate with emergency department physicians and physicians of other specialties as well as other members of the emergency department staff. Emergency physicians APC’s must evaluate a wide variety of ailments, sometimes with little to no information. They must be able to think and act quickly to make a tentative diagnosis and determine the appropriate course of treatment.

APC Responsibilities:

1. Provide patient medical services, which are limited to services within the training and experience of the practitioner.
2. Obtain complete, detailed and accurate medical histories on patients.
3. Performs health assessments and physical examinations and record all pertinent patient data.
4. Collaborate with physicians and other health professionals
5. Interpret and integrate patient data for the purposes of establishing presumptive diagnoses and the general workup of the patient by ordering appropriate laboratory studies, radiology and other special examinations or diagnostic procedures required for the evaluation of illness.
6. Evaluate and disposition patients in the emergency department in a productive manner with a good flow and a goal of 2.0 patients per hour.
7. Suture wounds, perform allowed procedures, prescribe, and administer drugs in accordance with federal and state laws and standards of practice.
8. Provide instructions and guidance and counseling regarding medical care matter to patients and their families.
9. Triage patients and complete call backs as instructed.
10. Complete patient charts in EPIC within 72 hours of seeing patient
11. Provide monthly schedule availability within time frame established.
12. Maintain licenses, required certificates and education; including Bayhealth annual education.
13. Review all medical (laboratory and radiology) reports concerning patients.
14. Attend staff and committee meetings unless working, post night or late evening shifts or have an excused absence.
15. All other duties as assigned within the scope and range of job responsibilities.

APC Required Education, Credential(s) and Experience:

• Education: Bachelor Degree Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant; Additional education may be required for some specialty areas and has passed the boards.
• Credential(s): Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant-Certified; Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant - Controlled Substances Registration
• Experience: Required: Can be part of core PA or APN training.

To view a full list of all open position at Bayhealth, please visit: 

https://apply.bayhealth.org/join/