Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - General & Trauma Surgery- Nocturnist; Ball Memorial

IU Health Ball Physicians has an opportunity for an experienced Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join our established General and Trauma Surgery team at IU Health Medical Group Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie, IN.

• Full Time, Nocturnist
  • No Call, No Weekends
  • 4-10-hour shifts Monday
    -Thursday
• 100% inpatient

• Work directly with our on-call surgeon overnight
• Examine and disposition patients overnight (admissions, discharges)
• First call for overnight surgical consults, surgical needs, charting, placing orders, booking surgeries, communicating with day shift and on call night shift providers, respond to traumas overnight, assist in surgery and minor procedures
• Must be a critical thinker, excellent in communication and able to work independently

• I & D
• Punch Biopsies
• Simple wound closures
• Assist in OR
• Chest tube and drain removal

• Master's Degree required.
• Must be ACNP, FNP or PA Board Certified
• Must be licensed or license eligible in the state of Indiana
• Must have at least 1 year of inpatient APP experience, OR experience preferred.
• Ideal candidate will be an experienced APP in surgery, inpatient medicine, or ER, OR experience

IU Health offers a value-based compensation package that includes: group insurance (health, dental, life, disability), 401k with company match, generous PTO, CME allowance/time off, relocation assistance, and malpractice insurance coverage.

IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital is a 379-bed hospital and is designated as a level 3 trauma center. It is both a teaching hospital and a regional tertiary referral center. Over the last decade, the hospital has undergone a $130 million remodel and currently serves over 82,700 patients daily.

Since the early 1980s, physicians and staff members have been actively involved in national and international medical research studies, particularly in the areas of oncology, cardiology and coagulation.