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Registered Nurse - Pulmonology Nurse Navigator
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 7 days ago
About the Role
The New Mexico VA Health Care System (NMVAHCS) Care Navigation is seeking qualified applicants to join our team! Current New Mexico VA Health Care System Internal Facility employees only!
What You'll Do
- →The Pulmonology Registered Nurse (RN) executes position responsibilities that demonstrate expert leadership, experience, and creative approaches in providing complex patient management.
- →Provides patient management, care coordination, and disposition planning for Pulmonology patients.
- →The Pulmonology Nurse Navigator assists Veterans, family members, and caregivers with receiving the most appropriate options and services to meet their complex healthcare needs.
- →Duties include but not limited to the following: Responsible and accountable for all elements of the nursing process when providing and/or supervising direct patient care.
- →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.
- →Follows procedures per established policies and guidelines.
- →Influences care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team.
- →Executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to the management of complex client care.
- →Coordinates care with multiple providers across all levels and sites of care.
- →Coordination also includes assuring services interface within the Veterans Affairs (VA) and community programs to provide continuity of care to patients.
- →Provides oversight of the patient's journey through the diagnostic and treatment continuum, ensuring that all steps in the process are scheduled, timely, and completed, while tracking the overall treatment plan.
- →Follows selected patients through the continuum of care including diagnosis, treatment, or palliation/end of life.
- →Anticipates and implements preventive patient care measures.
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.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 2-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 498eb973-7484-4a35-a4bd-1ff9ac72cf07
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