Emergency Room Advanced Practice Provider - Observation Unit

What We Offer

🚨 Ready for Your Next Challenge in Emergency Care?

Advanced Practice Provider (NP/PA) | Emergency Department Observation Unit

Love Emergency Medicine or Urgent Care, but looking for a role where you can follow the patient beyond the initial evaluation and make the decisions that move care forward?

Join our Emergency Department Observation Unit as an Advanced Practice Provider and bring your acute-care skills to a fast-paced environment focused on rapid evaluation, treatment, reassessment, and disposition.

This is an ideal opportunity for an NP or PA with Emergency Medicine, Urgent Care, Hospital Medicine, or Acute Care experience who thrives on clinical decision-making, collaboration, and getting patients to the right destination efficiently.

🩺 What You'll Do

As an APP in the ED Observation Unit, you'll:

• Own the patient's observation journey, from evaluation and diagnostic workup through treatment, reassessment, and disposition.
• Order and interpret labs, imaging, and diagnostic studies to guide clinical decisions.
• Work closely with Emergency Medicine physicians, specialists, nurses, case management, and ancillary teams.
• Use evidence-based pathways and protocols to deliver consistent, high-quality care.
• Help improve ED throughput, patient flow, and admission avoidance while ensuring patients receive the right care at the right time.
• Provide timely, accurate documentation supporting observation care and medical necessity.

⭐ You May Be a Great Fit If You...

✔ Thrive in a fast-paced acute-care environment
✔ Enjoy clinical autonomy and making timely disposition decisions
✔ Have strong assessment and diagnostic skills
✔ Value collaboration across disciplines
✔ Are passionate about improving the patient experience and reducing unnecessary hospital admissions

🎓 Qualifications

Required

• Graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant program
• Current unrestricted state licensure and national board certification
• DEA registration and prescriptive authority, as applicable
• Current BLS and ACLS certification

Preferred

• 1–2 years of experience in Emergency Medicine, Urgent Care, Hospital Medicine, Observation Medicine, or Acute Care

💙 Bring Your Emergency Care Skills Somewhere They Can Make an Impact

If you enjoy the pace of emergency care but also want the opportunity to reassess, problem-solve, and determine the patient's next step, this could be the role for you.

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What You'll Do

It is the responsibility of every Novant Health team member to deliver the most remarkable patient experience in every dimension, every time.

• Our team members are part of an environment that fosters team work, team member engagement and community involvement.
• The successful team member has a commitment to leveraging diversity and inclusion in support of quality care.
• All Novant Health team members are responsible for fostering a safe patient environment driven by the principles of "First Do No Harm".
• Schedule: Rotating 12 hour shifts /PRN

What We're Looking For

• Education: Graduate of an NCCPA accredited physician assistant program or NP or Post Master's NP program, required.
• Experience: Emergency Room Experience as an APP required
• Licensure/Certification: Current PA or NP License in appropriate state or current NP license in appropriate state, registry w/ state medical board and current DEA registry, required.
• Additional Skills (required): Ability to successfully complete generic and department-specific skills validation and competency testing. Ability to work with management team and physicians; demonstrated customer service skills, interpersonal skills and communication skills.

Job Opening ID

190298