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Advanced Practice Nurse (Nurse Practitioner)
Department of State - Agency Wide · Posted 65 days ago
About the Role
This is a TEMPORARY, INTERMITTENT position in the Bureau of Medical Services (MED). The incumbent serves as an Advanced Practice Nurse (Nurse Practitioner) required to temporarily fill vacant medical positions at overseas posts or domestically when there are staffing shortages or extended staffing gaps. While overseas, the incumbent assumes the role of primary care provider and is responsible for a full range of primary care, preventative and emergency medical services.
What You'll Do
- →Provides primary and preventive health care services across the lifespan: Obtains patient history, performs physical assessments to include diagnosis and treatment, emergency and other acute care services.
- →Collaborates with local healthcare officials, liaison with local and international experts, evaluates local hospitals, doctors and laboratories for types of services and standards of care, and advises the Ambassador on issues affecting the Mission.
- →Manages health unit personnel and resources.
- →Oversees all medical aspects of the emergency preparedness program which includes counter-terrorism measures and responses to terrorist attacks and incidents involving chemical, nuclear and biological weapons, and natural disasters.
Requirements
- ✓See the qualifications section of this vacancy announcement for education requirements.
- ✓Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the education requirements if you can show that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States.
- ✓It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.
- ✓For a list of accredited organizations recognized as specializing in interpretation of foreign education credentials, visit: www.naces.org/members.php.
Benefits
- ★Temporary employees are generally eligible to enroll in the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program if they are expected to work 130 hours per month or more for at least 90 days, in accordance with 5 CFR 890.102.
- ★They are eligible for leave, Federal holidays, and to receive a transit subsidy each month to compensate for travel to and from work via certain types of public transportation.
- ★Temporary appointments do not confer eligibility for Federal life insurance or retirement benefits.
Personality Fit
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