Athletic Trainer- Orthopaedics

Duke University; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Duke Health is seeking an Athletic Trainer to provide comprehensive care at the Duke North Carolina Orthopaedic Clinic in Durham, NC. Responsibilities include patient care, clerical duties, and ensuring compliance with health standards. A commitment to compassionate care is essential.

Benefits

$7,500 Commitment Bonus

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in athletic training or equivalent from a CAATE-accredited program.
• NATABOC Certification required.

Responsibilities

• Rooming patients, collecting histories, and documenting patient information.
• Preparing clinics, obtaining test results, and verifying insurance.
• Cleaning exam rooms and maintaining a safe work environment.

Skills

Patient Care

Clerical Duties

Organizational Skills

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in athletic training

NATABOC Certification

Job description

At Duke Health, we're driven by a commitment to compassionate care that changes the lives of patients, their loved ones, and the greater community. No matter where your talents lie, join us and discover how we can advance health together.

Duke Health Integrated Practice

https://careers.dukehealth.org/us/en/dhip

Pursue your passion for caring with Duke Health Integrated Practice, which comprises more than 110 primary and specialty outpatient clinics, extending the reach of Duke Health's mission across North Carolina.

$7,500 Commitment Bonus for qualifying candidates!

ATHLETIC TRAINER

JOB LOCATION:

Duke North Carolina Orthopaedic Clinic, 3609 SW Durham Dr, Durham, NC 27707

JOB SUMMARY

We are seeking an Athletic Trainer to provide direct and indirect care to patients at Duke North Carolina Orthopaedic Clinic in Durham, NC.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Patient Care Responsibilities: Rooming patients, collecting histories, documenting first pass HPI, charting, answering phone calls, completing forms, teaching HEP, walking with crutches.
2. Clerical Duties: Preparing clinics, obtaining test results, updating charts, verifying insurance, obtaining authorizations, coordinating referrals and appointments.
3. Fulfills EOC Responsibilities: Cleaning exam rooms, ordering and stocking supplies, restocking exam rooms, cleaning exam tables, maintaining a safe work environment by checking for expired supplies and medications, emptying sharps containers.
4. Organizational Duties: Promoting patient rights, responding to emergency codes, following HR, Compliance, and Joint Commission policies.
5. State Law Responsibilities: Autoclaving, checking vital signs, suture removal, dressing changes, entering orders based on physician protocols, biohazard waste management, applying DME to patients.
6. Additional Skills: Developing the ability to remove casts, apply basic splints and casts to upper and lower extremities, and accurately fit all DME used in the clinic.
7. Post-operative Evaluation: Some athletic trainers may be assigned to evaluate patients during their first post-operative visit, with physician or APP support. Notes will be co-signed by the MD or APP.
8. Other duties as assigned by your manager or HCA.

JOB ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in athletic training or equivalent from a CAATE-accredited program.
• NATABOC Certification (National Athletic Trainers Association-Board of Certification).

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