Registered Nurse- HBPC Outpatient

Job Title

Nursing

Duties

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Responsible and accountable for individual nursing practice and determines the appropriate delegation of tasks consistent with the nurse's obligation to provide optimal outpatient care.
• Provides direct Veteran care and care coordination, as it pertains, to Veterans and their care within the HBPC Program.
• Responsible for case management, assessment, triage, Veteran education, resource coordination, medication and treatment coordination, and care planning.
• Plans and delivers technically competent care in the home of Veterans with complex needs, including health promotion, health prevention, geriatric care, primary care, and palliative care.
• Utilizes interventions, which maximize health capabilities and reduces unnecessary urgent care and emergency room visits, per Veteran's goals of care. Makes home visits to Veterans in the program.
• Assist in directing the provision of nursing education, orientation, competencies and providing quality improvement and outcomes utilization.
• Responsible for the documented HBPC outcomes at the program or service level.
• Demonstrates leadership in delivering and improving holistic, home-based care through collaborative strategies with others. Evaluates practice in an ongoing process, based on best evidence.
• Partners with others to effect change and produce optimal outcomes. Supports colleagues through knowledge sharing to provide safe, quality HBPC nursing.
• Makes home visits to Veterans in the program. Collaborates in the development, implementation, evaluation, and revision of policies, procedures, and/or guidelines.
• Supports colleagues and other nurses through HBPC knowledge sharing to provide safe, quality nursing care.
• Contributes professional outpatient nursing perspective in discussions with the interdisciplinary team.

Benefits

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: 7:30AM- 4:00PM

Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized

Telework: Not Authorized

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized