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Registered Nurse (Specialty Care Outpatient)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 7 days ago
About the Role
The Hampton VA Medical Center is a 1-C, teaching facility serving Eastern Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina. The main campus is located in Hampton, VA with 4 community-based outpatient clinics in Chesapeake, Portsmouth, and Virginia Beach, VA; and Elizabeth City, NC. Hampton VAMC provides comprehensive health care which includes primary care, acute inpatient, acute psychiatric, chronic spinal cord injury, an 169-bed domiciliary, and long term Community Living Center/hospice care unit.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include, but are not limited to: Specialty Care Outpatient Staff Registered Nurse (RN) is responsible for providing competent, evidence-based specialty care to assigned patients with oversight of licensed vocational nurses/nursing assistants as appropriate to the clinic setting.
- →This nurse provides patient care, care coordination, health promotion, health education and coaching on wellness, disease prevention, and chronic care management.
- →The nurse will assist in directing the provision of nursing education, orientation, competencies and providing quality improvement and outcomes utilization.
- →Practice includes directing other providers.
- →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.
- →This nurse has fundamental specialty care experience with the situations in which they are ultimately expected to perform, integrating theoretical concepts, basic critical thinking skills, and technically skilled practice.
- →Will be responsible for screening/triaging, assisting with procedures and/or administering infusions to include blood, hydration and biologics.
- →RN's 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.
- →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.
- →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.
- ✓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 trial 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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 58290f01-a5a8-4ba4-ada0-36cfe4b4bcfc
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