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RN Staff - Home Based Primary Care (Brattleboro VT)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 57 days ago
About the Role
The RN Staff - Home Base Primary Care position is in Geriatrics and Extended Care Service at the VA White River Junction Healthcare System, located at the Brattleboro, VT location. This position is full-time at 40 hours per week. NOTE: The 2-page Resume requirement does not apply to this position. For more information, refer to Required Documents below.
What You'll Do
- →The RN Staff - Home Base Primary Care position is in Geriatrics and Extended Care Service at the VA White River Junction Healthcare System, located at the Brattleboro, VT location.
- →This position is full-time at 40 hours per week.
- →Included but are not limited to: Provide and supervise direct patient care, ensuring accountabilities for all elements of the nursing process.
- →Coordinate patient care across settings with emphasis on education, self-management, and patient satisfaction.
- →Administer medications and perform clinical procedures per established policies and guidelines.
- →Participate in unit and program-level quality improvement and customer service initiatives.
- →Deliver evidence-based care to HBPC patients, including oversight of licensed vocational nurses and nursing assistants.
- →Manage cases through assessment, triage, patient education, resource and medication coordination, and individualized care planning.
- →Plan and deliver comprehensive, technically competent care to veterans in their homes, addressing complex primary, geriatric, preventive, and palliative needs.
- →Implement interventions to maximize health, reduce hospital/ED visits, and align with each veteran's goals of care.
- →Conduct routine home visits to veterans as part of care delivery.
- →Support the orientation, education, and competency development of nursing staff; contribute to quality improvement and outcome evaluation activities.
- →Provide constructive feedback to peers and foster a safe, supportive, and professional environment for staff development.
- →Veteran/Patient-Driven Care: Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team to resolve issues impacting the veteran experience, including care coordination, timeliness, satisfaction, and environment of care concerns.
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 evaluation.
- ✓According to the onboarding drilldown, RNs are not listed for needed an exam unless they are incidental drivers.
- ✓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.
- ✓May be subject to satisfactory completion of our credentialing process.
Personality Fit
Job ID: efb154f1-9d8d-4d51-899c-13db285bb291
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