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Registered Nurse - Outpatient Patient Aligned Care Team
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 7 days ago
About the Role
The Registered Nurse - Outpatient Patient Aligned Care Team demonstrates integration of biopsychosocial concepts, cognitive skills, and technically competent practice while providing care to clients. 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.
What You'll Do
- →The Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) Registered Nurse (RN) is responsible for providing competent, evidence-based gender-specific primary care to patients with oversight of licensed vocational nurses/nursing assistants as appropriate to the clinic setting.
- →This nurse provides direct Veteran care and care coordination, as it pertains, to Veterans and their care within the Primary Care Department.
- →Manages assigned panel(s), utilizes registries, and ensures appropriate evaluation and access is provided to patient panels.
- →Other duties included but not limited to the following: Manages nursing care of patients, organizes, and completes own assignments in a safe and timely manner, assisting team members as necessary.
- →Administers medications and procedures per established policies and guidelines.
- →Integrates patient preferences into daily delivery of quality patient care.
- →Demonstrates the ability to communicate confidently with members of the healthcare team and demonstrate professional behaviors that promotes cooperation and teamwork.
- →Influences care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team.
- →Provides health promotion, health education and coaching on wellness, disease prevention, and chronic care management.
- →Will assist in directing the provision of nursing education, orientation, competencies and providing quality improvement and outcomes utilization.
- →Partners with the patient, family, and interdisciplinary team to promote effective and safe transitions across the health care continuum, including the Veteran's goals of care.
- →Fundamental primary care experience with the situations in which they are ultimately expected to perform, integrating theoretical concepts, basic critical thinking skills, and technically skilled practice.
- →Treats all patients, families and other caregivers with dignity and respect incorporating knowledge, values, and beliefs into nursing care delivery without judgement or discrimination.
- →Provides the Veteran's family, caregiver and/or significant other, the Veteran's representative, visitors to VA facilities, all VA staff, and other customers with consistent information according to establish policies and procedures.
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
Job ID: 9cba8835-da6e-4f5d-a554-ed7216ed9a60
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