Registered Nurse-Home Based Primary Care

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The Home Based Registered Nurse provides care in Veterans' home to promote health & prevention of illness & injury. This includes appropriate nursing judgement through case finding, health teaching & counseling, provision of care supportive to or restorative of life & well-being; & executing medical regiments including administering medications & treatments.

The Registered Nurse (RN) 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 judgement, and evaluation of human responses to actual or potential health problems through such services as case finding heath 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 will include but are not limited to:

* Evaluating new consults to Home-Based Primary Care (HBPC) team, case management of HBPC patients and supporting the provisions of care in the home to a complex population of chronically ill or severely disabled Veterans of NF/SGVHS.

* Supporting 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.

* Traveling to other locations of care within NF/SGVHS to carry out job duties/assignments.

* Driving and/or traveling using personal vehicle or government vehicle to other site of care within NF/SGVHS, as well as, to community partners, as necessary to accomplish assignments.

* Performing duties as assigned by the Home Care Leadership team, Home Care Program Director, and the Associate Chief of Staff, Geriatrics and Extended Care.

* Traveling will be for long periods of time, up to three hours each way; travel is expected up to 75% of work week.

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 08:00am-04:30pm

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Note:

Work schedules are determined and approved by the supervisor. The incumbent may be required to work various shifts on a permanent or temporary basis based on facility/patient care needs).

Telework:
Not Available

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