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Advanced Practice Nurse - Lung Cancer Screening
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 10 days ago
About the Role
Central Ohio VA Health Care System is seeking a Nurse Practitioner for Specialty Medicine. Duty location is in Columbus, OH. The Advanced Practice Nurse Certified Nurse Practitioner practices in Pulmonary Service to provide a full range of services emphasizing quality, timeliness, and the advancement of the Veterans Affairs (VA) mission. The NP provides advanced clinical practice, consultation, and management.
What You'll Do
- →Functions of Assigned Duties: The Lung Cancer Screening Nurse Practitioner manages consults for potential lung cancer screening enrollment by performing chart reviews to verify eligibility and appropriateness.
- →Performs initial and ongoing monitoring and tracking of abnormal images/lung nodules and communicating with providers to ensure that they are alerted to abnormal findings when necessary.
- →Participates in National Lung Cancer Screening program meetings.
- →Independently manages a panel of patients with acute and chronic health conditions with an emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention using evidence-based practice.
- →Orders and interprets labs, tests, and diagnostic studies.
- →Prescribes pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓English Language Proficiency.
- ✓In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7402(f), no person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓You may be required to serve a probationary period.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 9ebd757f-6afe-4040-bbc4-1e0f4f2f4fb6
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