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Nurse Practitioner- Nephrology
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 131 days ago
About the Role
The Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) Certified Nurse Practitioner (NP) Nephrology practices in Medicine 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
- →The Nurse Practitioner (NP) Nephrology is a licensed independent practitioner with advanced education and national certification who provides evidence-based care for patients.
- →Duties include, but are not limited to: Ongoing, continuous care of one or more assigned panel(s) of Veterans.
- →Utilizes all available tools to enable effective and efficient identification and interventions of individual patients.
- →Ensures appropriate evaluation and access is provided to patients assigned to the patient panel.
- →Functions at the full extent of the team member's relevant clinical privileges, credentials, scopes of practice, elements of practice, certification, or other facility approved documentation of competency.
- →Participates in team performance improvements and sustainment activities to optimize team efficiency and care delivery to patients.
- →Manages communications and facilitating safe transitions of patients between Specialty Care and PACT's site of care and other health care settings, using informal and formal communication methods, as appropriate.
- →Collaborates with informatics technology staff to develop and implement systematized, electronically supported tools to support patient care delivery process (e.g. pre-visit reminder calls, post-hospitalization follow-up up calls, recall scheduling procedures, new patient orientation, disease registries and primary care protocols for chronic disease management.
- →Subject to change based on agency needs.
- →Telework: Ad-hoc Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized
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 dentification 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: 9a064cc0-4357-4dc5-b88b-ed68ba2fa5e8
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