# Internship

Provider: [Atrium Health](https://programs.cccareers.org/providers/atrium-health)

- Program type: Internship
- Branches: All branches
- Format: In person
- Length: 121 - 150 days
- Locations: Charlotte, NC
- Website: https://atriumhealth.org/locations/detail/carolinas
- Contact: Alexis Millen, alexis.millen@aah.org
- Page: https://programs.cccareers.org/programs/atrium-health-internship-8v6eo0

## Summary

This APP position functions within a fast‑paced, high‑acuity Trauma and Surgical Critical Care service. It is best suited for APPs with prior trauma or critical‑care experience to ensure a smooth transition with minimal knowledge gaps. The role has high autonomy, rotating across both Trauma and SCC service lines, and focuses on managing critically ill and critically injured patients.

## Job description

Instruction Focus (Condensed):1. Orientation & Workflow: EMR, protocols, trauma activations, ICU workflowa. Learning Objective: Understand organizational structure, documentation workflows, trauma activation processes, ICU protocols, rounding structure, and interdisciplinary communication standards.2. Core Trauma & Critical Care: Ventilators, ABGs, vasoactive medication management, early decompensation recognitiona. Learning Objective: Demonstrate competency in managing ventilators, interpreting arterial blood gases, titrating vasoactive drips, and recognizing early signs of decompensation in critically ill and poly‑trauma patients.3. Advanced Procedures: Chest tubes, central/arterial lines, bronchoscopy, invasive monitoringa. Learning Objective: Perform advanced bedside procedures—including chest tubes, central and arterial lines, bronchoscopy—and proficiently utilize invasive monitoring tools (CVP, arterial waveform interpretation, ICP when applicable).4. Trauma Resuscitation & OR Coordination: High‑acuity resuscitation, perioperative transitionsa. Learning Objective: Execute high‑acuity trauma resuscitations, participate in OR coordination, assist in emergent bedside procedures, and lead transitions of care for trauma and surgical ICU patients.5. Autonomous Practice & Teaching: Independent management, teaching learners, leading rounds/huddles, communication with consultantsa. Learning Objective: Demonstrate readiness for independent practice, precept learners, contribute to academic education, lead multidisciplinary huddles, and manage a patient load consistent with service expectations.

## Locations

- Charlotte, NC, 28203

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