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Nurse Specialty Care
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 57 days ago
About the Role
The Specialty Care Outpatient Nurse Specifically, will be responsible for screening/triaging, assisting with procedures and/or administering infusions to include blood, hydration and biologics. RNs assigned to the Oncology or Infusion clinic will be required to maintain a current ONS (Oncology Nursing Society) Chemotherapy/Biotherapy certification card and administer chemotherapy and/or biologics.
What You'll Do
- →Duties: Delivers fundamental knowledge-based care to assigned clients while developing technical skills.
- →Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates care based on age-specific components.
- →Assumes responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient education, self management, and customer satisfaction throughout the continuum of care.
- →Administers medications and procedures per established policies and guidelines.
- →Influences care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team.
- →The Hampton VA Health Care System Center is a 1-C, teaching facility serving Eastern Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina.
- →The main campus is in Hampton, Virginia with 4 community-based outpatient clinics in Chesapeake, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach, Virginia and Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
- →There is one new Health Care Center in Chesapeake VA.
- →Hampton VAMC provides comprehensive health care which includes Primary Care, Acute Inpatient, Acute Psychiatric, Chronic Spinal Cord Injury, a 169-bed Domiciliary, and long-term Community Living Center/Hospice Care Unit.
- →Contributes to Accreditation Readiness including Quick Sweeps, Environment of Care (EOC) rounds, and clinic daily logs.
- →Leads and/or participates in daily huddles.
- →Initiates and follows through with patient schedule scrubbing days in advance.
- →Triages walk-in patients and collaborate with providers to determine a plan of care.
- →Conducts nurse visits and provide patient education.
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.
- ✓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
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