Nurse Practitioner - Maplewood Community Care Clinic

Overview

The Maplewood Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) has an opening for a Full‑Time Advanced Practice Nurse (APN). 13 CBOCs within the Minneapolis VA Health Care System provide care to Veterans near their home town and serve over 47,000 Veterans throughout Minnesota and Western Wisconsin. The APN provides a full range of services emphasizing quality, timeliness, and the advancement of the Veterans Affairs (VA) mission.

The APN provides advanced clinical practice, consultation, and management.

• The services currently provided include internal medicine/primary care, which is defined as the continuous, coordinated and interdisciplinary provision of comprehensive health services in an outpatient setting for a defined panel of assigned patients as well as those patients assigned to colleagues when access to care is necessary utilizing the Primary Care Management Module (PCMM) VHA standards.
• Each Nurse Practitioner (NP) will have a collaborating physician with a signed practice agreement. The NP panel will be adjusted based on VISN standards for panel management.
• Services that will be provided to defined paneled patients include but are not limited to diagnosis, treatment and referral of acute and chronic medical conditions, screening for diseases according to CDC and VA guidelines, targeted health promotion and disease prevention activities, health education, case management, referral service and urgent care.
• PACT clinics are focused on the Advanced Clinic Access principles, promoting access when the veteran feels the need to be evaluated. The care setting is not limited to the clinic visits with the provider, but also includes My Healthy Vet, telephone triage and clinic visits with team members such as the RN case manager, social worker and pharmacist.
• Focus on care includes the chronic disease initiative focusing on areas of CHF, COPD and DM, mental health collaboration in the PC setting, MOVE program focusing on weight loss, diet and activity as well as health promotion/disease management.
• Work schedule:
  
  Monday‑Friday; administrative days.

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

• This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific individual eligibility requirements in accordance with VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) and eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after complete review of the EDRP application.
• The EDRP Coordinator(s) can be reached at VHAVISN
  23ED
  RP.

Requirements are not listed in the posted material.