Population Health Nurse - Duke Primary Care Mebane

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.

About Duke Primary Care

Pursue your passion for caring with Duke Primary Care, which offers family, adolescent, and internal medicine services as well as urgent, general pediatric, and virtual care at nearly 50 clinic locations across central North Carolina.

Duke Nursing Highlights:

• Duke University Health System is designated as a Magnet organization
• Nurses from each hospital are consistently recognized each year as North Carolina's Great 100 Nurses.
• Duke University Health System was awarded the American Board of Nursing Specialties Award for Nursing Certification Advocacy for being strong advocates of specialty nursing certification.
• Duke University Health System has 6000 + registered nurses
• Quality of Life:
  Living in the Triangle!
• Relocation Assistance (based on eligibility)

Population Health Nurse - Duke Primary Care Mebane

Duke Primary Care Mebane is a dynamic and patient-focused practice dedicated to delivering high-quality, accessible care to individuals and families throughout the Mebane community. This department is known for its strong team culture, efficiency, and commitment to excellence in everyday patient care. Supported by skilled providers and exceptional clinical staff, the clinic offers comprehensive services including preventive care, chronic disease management, women's health, pediatrics, immunizations, and diagnostic support.

Duke Primary Care Mebane takes pride in building lasting relationships with patients while providing compassionate, reliable, and personalized care in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Location:

1352 Mebane Oaks Road, Mebane, North Carolina 27302

Schedule:

Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm

What you will do:

The Population Health Nurse plays a key role in improving geriatric care through prevention, comprehensive assessments, and personalized care coordination. They support smooth transitions across care settings, educate and advocate for patients, and collaborate closely with care teams to deliver evidence-based, patient-centered outcomes that strengthen individual and community health.

• Provide specialized nursing treatment, development of care plans, and education to patients while exercising discretion and independent judgment, following established policies and procedures.
• Assess the educational needs of the patient/caregiver as it relates to the disease process, alterations in function, and assimilation back into the home and community.
• Monitor system access to care, services, and treatment including linkage to the medical home.
• Address the total individual, inclusive of medical, psychosocial, behavioral, and spiritual needs. Involve the patient and their support systems (i.e. caregiver, family, etc.) in the decision-making process.
• Use a patient-centric, collaborative partnership approach to assist the patient with improved self-management. Utilizing proven processes to measure a patient's understanding and acceptance of the proposed plan(s), his/her willingness to change, and his/her support to maintain health behavior change.
• Apply teaching and learning theories to assist patients and families with physical and emotional impact of body changes and chronic illness.
• Communicating and coordinating with all provider(s) and member(s) of the care team as needed to minimize fragmented care. This will include navigating transitions of care generally from hospital to home or community facilities.
• Monitor quality and effectiveness of interventions to the population by setting long term and/or short-term specific, measurable goal(s).
• Accessing and systematically using data from multiple sources such as patient medical records, claims, and program metric reports to target recipient(s) and provider(s) for outreach, education, and intervention.
• Advocate for patient(s) and supporting provider(s) to ensure delivery of appropriate, evidence-based care.
• Facilitate Quality Improvement activities that educate, support, and monitor provider(s), regarding…