Vidant Medical Group and Vidant Medical Center are seeking a Physician Assistant or Acute Care Nurse Practitioner to join its Neurocritical Care team. The successful candidate will perform admissions and discharges, histories, physical exams, ongoing patient assessments, daily rounding, and ICU procedures (arterial lines, central lines, and intubation). Vidant Medical Center is a Joint Commission-certified Comprehensive Stroke Center.

Highlights include:

• Employment by Vidant Medical Group
• Hospital privileges at Vidant Medical Center, a level 1 trauma center
• Multidisciplinary team including 9 Neurosurgeons, Neurologists, Neurointensivists, a Neuro-Oncologist, Stroke Neurohospitalists, 12 NSICU APP’s and 4 Stroke APP’s
• 24 bed NSICU
• Supervising physician is an experienced Neurointensivist
• Excellent mentorship and orientation programs
• Ability to perform ICU procedures
• Inpatient only
• No call
• 24/7 service will include some nights and some weekend shifts
• Integrated EMR is EPIC

Vidant's Neuroscience program uses a multidisciplinary approach to provide a range of services to include diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of patients with neurological disorders. The hospital has excellent staff in nursing, radiology, general neurosurgery, endovascular neurosurgery and intervention, neuro-spine surgery, and neurology. The Neuroscience team takes great pride in their patient- and family-centered approach to care, which promotes optimization of patient outcomes.

Vidant Medical Group
Vidant Medical Group, a multi-specialty physician group sponsored by Vidant Health, employs more than 500 providers in more than 100 locations, offering primary and specialty care. The group provides the infrastructure and leadership needed to manage a modern medical practice including processes for billing and collection, group contracting, electronic medical records and other technologies.

Vidant Medical Center
Vidant Medical Center, one of four academic medical centers in North Carolina, is the flagship hospital for Vidant Health and serves as the teaching hospital for The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. Vidant Medical Center is a 974-bed tertiary referral center providing acute, intermediate, rehabilitation and outpatient health services to a 29-county region that is home to more than 1.4 million people. In recognition of its nursing excellence and high-quality patient care, Vidant Medical Center has been designated a Magnet® facility by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Greenville
Located in the heart of Eastern North Carolina, Greenville (pop. 91,495) is an ideal, family-oriented community that serves as a regional hub for education, entertainment, healthcare and shopping. Greenville is 45 miles east of I-95 and just over an hour from Raleigh, Oriental (the sailing capital of NC) and the Atlantic Ocean.

• • Home to East Carolina University (ECU), a vibrant college community with an annual enrollment of more than 28,000 students
  • Division I athletics (American Athletic Conference) and nationally recognized theatre, arts and music programs
  • Cost of living below the national average, diverse and affordable housing and excellent educational opportunities, public and private
  • Investment of more than $500 million in downtown Greenville’s revitalization, bringing new restaurants, shops, businesses and residents to the area
  • 25 city-owned recreation and parks facilities including greenways, gymnasiums, sports complexes, a golf course, swimming pools, a Town Common and an amphitheatre

• North Carolina has many draws to include vast state parks, professional sports teams (NBA, NFL and NHL), pristine beaches, high ranking public colleges/universities and diverse arts and cultural offerings - making the area an attractive location to live, practice medicine and vacation.