Registered Nurse - Home Based Primary Care

HBPC delivers comprehensive, interdisciplinary primary care in the Veteran's home, with a focus on preventive care, chronic disease management, and palliative support.

The Home Based Community Care (HBPC) Staff Registered Nurse (RN) executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex rural homecare patients. The HBPC RN provides intensive care management by developing and coordinating the HBPC-enrolled Veteran's care plan, including ongoing assessment and re-assessment, care planning, care coordination, monitoring and evaluating clinical outcomes.

Assumes responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient transition through the continuum of patient care, patient and family education, and supporting factors that impact customer satisfaction. Collaborates in the development, implementation, evaluation, and revision of policies, procedures, and/or guidelines. Demonstrates performance and leadership that is broad enough to improve the care for clinically complex group of patients in a homecare setting.

Provides peers with formal or informal constructive feedback for improvement. Supports colleagues and other nurses through knowledge sharing to provide safe, quality outpatient nursing care. Fosters a safe and supportive environment conducive to the professional development of health care professionals. Evaluates outcomes of evidence-based decisions and practice changes for individuals, groups, and populations. Responsible for the documented outcomes at the program or service level.

Program or service level outcomes must be broad and complex and can be demonstrated at any organizational level within a facility.

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 (CST)

Telework:
Ad-hoc telework only.

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment

Incentives:

Not Authorized.

Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
Not Authorized.

PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO):
Not Authorized.