Registered Nurse Home Based Primary Care

Job Title

Registered Nurse-Home Based Primary Care Outpatient

Job Description

The Registered Nurse-Home Based Primary Care Outpatient provides care and counseling of persons or in the promotion and maintenance of health and prevention of illness and injury based upon the nursing process which includes systematic data gathering, assessment, appropriate nursing judgment, and evaluation of human responses to actual or potential health problems through such services as case finding, health teaching, health counseling; provision of care supportive to or restorative of life and well-being; and executing medical regimens including administering medications and treatments prescribed by a licensed or otherwise legally authorized provider. Duties include but are not limited to:

• Evaluating new consults to HBPC team, case management of HBPC patients and supporting the provision of care in the home to a complex population of chronically ill or severely disabled Veterans of NF/SGVHS.
• Support the provision of care by others to the HBPC population, Homemaker/Home Health Aide population, Home Hospice and Intermittent Skilled Services patient population, MFH, and Contract Nursing Home population.
• Required to travel to other locations of care within NF/SGVHS to carry out job duties/assignments. The RN is required to drive and/or travel using personal vehicle or government vehicle to other sites of care within NF/SGVHS, as well as, to community partners, as necessary to accomplish work assigned. Travel will be for long periods of time, up to three hours each way; travel is expected up to 75% of work week.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Home Care Leadership team, Home Care Program Director, and the Associate Chief of Staff, Geriatrics and Extended Care.

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 or 8:00am-4:30pm

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized