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Nurse Practitioner (Only for Current Permanent Employees of El Paso VA Health Care System)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 118 days ago
About the Role
This Open Continuous Announcement (OCA) is open ONLY to any Current, Permanent employees of the El Paso Texas VA Health Care System. Applications will expire after 90 days. Employees using this announcement must update their applications every 90 days.
What You'll Do
- →Applications will expire after 90 days.
- →Applicants will need to update their applications every 90 days to stay current and eligible.
- →As the Registered Nurse Practitioner, you will use professional standards of care and practice to evaluate self, programs, and service activities.
- →You will maintain knowledge of current techniques, trends, and professional issues.
- →You will use group process to identify, analyze, and resolve care problems.
- →Duties of the position include but are limited to: Examines, diagnoses, and treats patients with both pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions.
- →Ensures that all treatment meet generally accepted standard of care criteria.
- →Diagnoses and management of a variety chronic medical illnesses, diagnoses and management of a variety of acute medical illnesses.
- →Completing clinically appropriate workup for each diagnosis via physical exam, diagnostic laboratory and/or diagnostic imaging.
- →Relaying results of diagnostic laboratory or diagnostic imaging to the patient in a timely manner.
- →Provides patient education regarding their diagnoses and treatments along with addressing preventative medicine at each visit.
- →Acts as a leader within their PACT and providing teaching/mentoring to each member of their team to improve the overall care experienced by the patient.
- →Performs routine in office procedures within the primary care scope of practice Coordinates of patient care with consultants and specialists as needed.
- →Supervises residents will provide education, training, mentoring, and supervision to students and residents.
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.
- ✓You may be required to serve a probationary period.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓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).
- ✓The post-master's certificate, Master of Science degree or doctoral degree as a Nurse Practitioner must be fully accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or the Commission On Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).
- ✓Verification of accreditation may be obtained from http://www.acenursing.us/accreditedprograms/programsearch.htm or https://directory.ccnecommunity.org/reports/accprog.asp If your school has changed names, or is no longer in existence, you must provide this information in your application.
- ✓If your school was accredited by ACEN or CCNE at the time of graduation, but is no longer listed on the websites, you must provide documentation of accreditation with your application packet.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 99313e44-a1b4-4c1a-b5a1-b7310ed7b19a
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