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Surgical Specialty Nurse
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 10 days ago
About the Role
Proficient in practice based on conscious and deliberate planning. Self-directed in goal setting for managing complex client situations. 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 outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team.
What You'll Do
- →Provide competent, evidence-based specialty care to patients with oversight of licensed vocational nurses/nursing assistants as appropriate to the clinic setting.
- →Provide vocational nurses/nursing assistants as appropriate to the clinic setting.
- →Provides patient care, care coordination, health promotion, health education and coaching on wellness, disease prevention, and chronic care management.
- →Assist in directing the provision of nursing education, orientation, competencies and providing quality improvement and enhance outcomes utilization.
- →Integrate specialty care knowledge, skills, abilities, and judgment and is self-directed in goal setting for managing complex outpatient situations.
- →Responsible for the surgical and non-surgical patient care while utilizing all aspects of the nursing process and works in collaboration with the care coordinators, providers, residents, surgical technicians, and nurse manager.
- →Systematically assess the health status of individuals and documents related health data in accordance with institutional policy providing pre, intra, and post procedure care.
- →Required to train and maintain competency in set-up and break down of minor procedures.
- →Complete phone calls and secure messages within 24-48 hours and reviews alerts throughout clinic hours and resolve promptly, and ensure the clinic has an efficient flow and education to team members to meet clinic/patient needs.
- →Able to recognize urgent/emergent care situations and perform appropriate interventions.
- →Performs initial triage of walk-in patients to the clinical area that may need urgent or post-operative care on a daily basis.
- →Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: May be authorized for a highly qualified candidate Preferred Experience: 1-2 years of acute care experience. 1 year of outpatient and/or procedural clinic experience.
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.
- ✓IMPORTANT: A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
Personality Fit
Job ID: b933d4a6-deb4-4602-a860-48f1dee53905
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