Registered Nurse-Outpatient; Tomball Community Based Clinic

Position: Registered Nurse-Outpatient (Tomball Community Based Clinic)
The Tomball Community Based Outpatient Clinic is seeking a Registered Nurse who is responsible for providing competent, evidence-based gender-specific care to Primary Care patients and oversight of Licensed Vocational Nurses/Nursing Assistants, as appropriate to the setting. This nurse provides direct Veteran care and care coordination within the Primary Care Department.

Major duties for the Registered Nurse-Outpatient include, but are not limited to:

* Managing assigned panel(s), utilizing registries, and ensuring appropriate evaluation and access is provided to patient panels.

* Providing health promotion, health education and coaching on wellness, disease prevention, and chronic care management.

* Assisting in directing the provision of nursing education, orientation, competencies and providing quality improvement and outcomes utilization.

* Demonstrating leadership in delivering and improving holistic, primary care through collaborative strategies with others.

* Evaluating practice in an ongoing process, based on best evidence.

* Providing peers with informal constructive feedback for improvement.

* Fostering a safe and supportive environment conducive to the professional development of healthcare professionals.

* Contributing professional outpatient nursing perspective in discussions with the interdisciplinary team.

* Partnering with others to effect change and produce optimal outcomes.

* Supporting colleagues through knowledge sharing to provide safe, quality outpatient nursing care.

* Sharing educational findings, experiences, and ideas with peers.

* Questioning PACT clinical practices for the purpose of providing evidence-based care.

* Participating in activities and strategies to sustain an evidence-based-practice culture.

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; subject to change based on facility needs.

Telework:
Not available.

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.