Research Instructor

Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit

The UNC School of Medicine has a rich tradition of excellence and care. Our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians, and others whom we serve.

We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research. We strive to promote faculty, staff, and learner development in a diverse, respectful environment where our colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning, and create personal and professional sustainability. We optimize our partnership with the UNC Health System through close collaboration and commitment to service.

OUR VISION

Our vision is to be the nation's leading public school of medicine. We are ranked 2nd in primary care education among all US schools of medicine and 5th among public peers in NIH research funding. Our Allied Health Department is home to five top-ranked divisions, and we are home to 18 top-ranked clinical and basic science departments in NIH research funding.

OUR MISSION

Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve.

We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.

Patient Care: We will promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.

Education: We will prepare tomorrow's health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education. We will cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce.

Research: We will develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources.

We will provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research. We will foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.

Position Summary

The Division of Infectious Diseases at the UNC School of Medicine is recruiting for a Research Instructor (APP/NP). Duties include, but are not limited to, this position will provide HIV primary care at the state and federal funded Ryan White HIV/AIDS Part B/C grants located at Wake County Human Services Infectious Diseases Clinic in Raleigh, NC. UNC Chapel Hill provides services at the Wake County Human Services through a contract.

The mission of the Division of Infectious Diseases (ID) is research, patient care, and teaching. The ID Division provides quality primary, secondary, and tertiary care to citizens of North Carolina. Serves as a referral center for patients from throughout the southeast, educates medical school students, residents, and fellows in the subspecialty of Infectious Diseases, as well as provides continuing education through participation in the Area Health Education Centers (AHEC). Advances scholar research as well as laboratory and clinical investigation in Infectious Diseases and provides community service, technical support and assistance, and conducts building activities throughout the world.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements

Nurse practitioner must be certified and/or licensed to practice in North Carolina by the North Carolina Board of Nursing. Obtain Advanced AIDS Certified Registered Nurse (AACRN) via HIV AIDS Nursing Certification Board (HANCB) within 2 years of employment.

This position requires a thorough knowledge of techniques of interviewing, medical and relevant history taking, principles and practices of general medical and disease states as they related to the area of work; thorough knowledge of health appraisal tools, laboratory test and findings; thorough knowledge and ability to plan a regimen of care based on assessment and findings; through knowledge of available resources and appropriate referral methods; thorough knowledge of specialized tests, skill in performing clinical functions.

Ability to supervise and coordinate other nursing and medical staff, to evaluate the quality of services delivered, and to institute methods of improving and/or maintaining established standard of nursing and medical care: ability to plan, institute, and conduct in-service training programs; ability to examine patients and detect abnormalities; ability tor record accurately and completely all information necessary to evaluate and plan care and to convey this to the physician; ability to communicate orally; ability to teach and counsel individuals, families and groups in the area of health maintenance, preventive medicine, and care of the sick; and the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff and to gain the confidence of patients and family and work effectively with them.

Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience

A basic knowledge of HIV/AIDS disease, manifestations, and progression strongly preferred.

Special Physical/Mental Requirements Campus Security Authority Responsibilities

Not Applicable.

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