Advanced Practice Nurse - Community Living Center

Community Living Center Advanced Practice Nurse

The Community Living Center (CLC) Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) is a licensed independent practitioner with advanced education and national certification who provides evidence-based care for a population of patients.

Duties include, but are 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.
• Executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex Veteran care.
• Functions within a defined scope of practice as a direct care provider and/or expert clinician. The APN provides specialty and/or primary health care within the Rehabilitation and Extended Care ICC.
• Identifies CLC residents with challenging dementia-related and non-dementia related behaviors.
• Utilizes the use of evidence-based behavioral and non-pharmacological interventions to reduce the frequency and severity of challenging behaviors.
• Supports development of the interdisciplinary plan of care with interdisciplinary team.
• Serves to facilitate the optimal level of functioning of the Veteran in a less restrictive level of care.
• Develops collaborative partnerships with a variety of community settings.
• Provides inpatient clinical management at the unit level.
• Provides leadership in the application of the nursing process to client care, organizational processes and/or systems, improving outcomes at the program or service level.
• Manages program resources (financial, human, material, or informational) to facilitate safe, effective efficient care.
• Implements an educational plan to meet changing program or service needs for self and others.
• Completes assessment and documentation of medical history, diagnosis, and plan of care.
• Initiates, orders, and evaluates plans of care for the Community Living Center Veterans.
• Provides History and Physicals, medical screenings, and medical follow-up for all newly admitted and established Veterans on the Community Living Center.
• Provides patient/family education regarding disease process, risk factors, symptom control, treatment (including use of medications).
• Orders laboratory, imaging, and other diagnostic tests as applicable.
• Consults with other providers in a multidisciplinary team.
• Initiates referrals to other services/specialists as needed.
• Promotes a practice environment that supports professional responsibility, accountability, and professional development.
• Must be proficient and demonstrate competency and the ability to either set up or reprocess Reusable Medical Equipment as applicable for all equipment for which they have been trained.
• Exemplifies the ICARE core values of Integrity, Commitment, Advocacy, Respect, and Excellence.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards

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: Monday - Friday, 7:30am - 4:00pm

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized