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This nurse provides health promotion, health education and coaching on wellness, disease prevention, and chronic care management. The focus is on individual growth and development in outpatient PACT nursing practice.

Major duties include, but are not limited to:

• Promotes patient-centered care in the management of chronic disease using VA guidelines and protocols.
• Implements nursing interventions/orders in a timely and complete manner.
• Has knowledge of population characteristics including cultural, ethnic, gender and religious diversity. He/she must have knowledge of family dynamics, psychotherapy, developmental theory and interpersonal relationships and systems approach to clinical care.
• Serves as a preceptor or field instructor for students and employees in orientation.
• Utilizes systematic data collection, aggregation, analysis, and reporting techniques to achieve concurrent compliance review of identified quality/patient safety metrics.
• Triages walk-in/acute care visits and utilizes RN protocols to assist with triaging.
• Manages same day patient care needs and coordinates procedures, labs, transitions, education and follow up if indicated.
• Based on the daily huddle, identifies patients that will require special nursing care and collaborates with the team about how best to meet that patient's needs.
• Maintain ongoing appointments of varying modalities (telephone clinic, face-to-face, telehealth, secure messaging). Face-to-face and scheduled telephone follow up visits should be at least 4-7 visits per day.
• Promotes collaborative behavior and team efforts. Is confident of abilities, effectively initiates solutions and, is alert to new opportunities, techniques, and approaches.
• Recognizes ethical issues related to professional nursing practice and models appropriate action by providing and directing others in the provision of care following established policies and ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses.
• Formulates a plan of care based on nursing assessments, using the nursing process, based on the ANA Standards of Nursing Practice.
• All other duties as assigned, pertaining to this occupation, to meet the needs of the Agency, Department, Facility, and/or Service.

• Serves as a public health expert in developing, planning, coordinating, monitoring, implementing, and evaluating current or projected complex, interrelated public health and clinical / research programs within the Office of Human Research and Community Engagement (OHRCE) involving governmental and non-governmental organizations and individuals from multiple sectors e.g. local, state, national and/or international levels.
• Analyzes existing or proposed systems, strategies, services, or other health-related matters for long range implementation and administration of programs.
• Provides technical advice, and assistance in the assigned area of responsibility. Identifies opportunities and problem areas, research gaps and relevant program needs.
• Seeks out and pinpoints new research based on program needs.
• Designs solutions and provide suggestions concerning program direction (formulating short- and long-range program goals, objectives, and policies),
• Coordinates the use of various support mechanisms to achieve a balanced program within approved resource priorities and funding ensuring alignment with program objectives.
• Makes recommendations, serves as a technical advisor to OHRCE Director.