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.
VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package:
VA Nurse Total Rewards Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards
Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory
Work Schedule: Full-Time, Monday - Friday; 8:00am- 4:30pm.
Telework: Not available.
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized.
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized.
Starting at $58,863 Per Year (VN 00)
