ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSE (NURSE PRACTITIONER)

Advanced Practice Nurse (Nurse Practitioner)

This ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSE (NURSE PRACTITIONER) position is in Primary Care services at the Providence VA Medical Center, located at the Providence, RI location. This position is full-time at 40 hours per week. The APN practices in Primary service as a Nurse Practitioner (NP) to provide a full range of services emphasizing quality, timeliness, and the advancement of the VA mission. The NP provides advanced clinical practice, consultation, and management.

Duties include but not limited to:

• Independently manages a panel of patients with acute and chronic health conditions with an emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention using evidence-based practice
• Develops and implements an individualized plan to achieve optimal population health and disease management
• Demonstrates leadership and works collaboratively with Primary Care Team and other interdisciplinary team members
• Orders and interprets diagnostic studies
• Prescribes pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions.
• Initiates referrals/consults to specialty services
• Provides education to patients and their families
• Assesses and adjusts the plan of care as needed to achieve optimal patient outcomes
• Exemplifies the ICARE core values of-Integrity, Commitment, Advocacy, Respect, and Excellence

Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards

Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

Work Schedule: Mon-Fri; 8a-4:30p.

Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized.

Telework: Not Authorized.

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized.

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Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized.

Notifications:

• This position is not a Bargaining Unit position.
• Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50, (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held.
• The salary is based on the grade and step approved for the selected candidate.

This position will be posted via two announcements for two different occupational series which can be considered to fill this vacancy. Qualified applicants from both announcements will be referred to the service for consideration but only one of the announcements will result in an applicant filling the position.

• Physician (Primary Care), VM-0602-15, vacancy number: 12994031