Advanced Practice Nurse - Primary Care

Summary

This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) - a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific eligibility requirements per VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval - award amount (up to $200,000) & eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after review of the EDRP application.

Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply.

• Duties include - but are not limited to:
  Utilizes all available tools - such as registries - to enable effective and efficient identification and intervention of individual patients and cohorts
• Assures that clinical care provided meets all timelines and required documentation for the Chief of Staff (COS) office
• Participates in multi-disciplinary team meetings to achieve a patient centered - holistic approach for clinical care and needs of the Veteran - focusing on continuous improvement of critical team processes
• Ensures the patient's care plan contains medical recommendations for clinically indicated care
• Ongoing - continuous care of one or more assigned panel(s) of Veterans providing health education and health coaching on wellness - disease prevention - chronic care management and self-management skills to patients and personal support persons
• Collaborates with informatics technology staff to develop and implement systematized - electronically supported - standardized - tools to support PACT care delivery processes (e.g.
  
  - pre-visit reminder calls - post hospitalization follow-up calls - recall scheduling procedures - new patient orientation - disease registries and primary care protocols for chronic disease management
• 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 - 8:00am to 4:30pm Compressed/Flexible:
  Authorized Telework:
  Not Available Virtual:
  This is not a virtual position
• Relocation/Recruitment
  
  Incentives:
  
  Not Authorized EDRP Authorized:
  Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive
• Contact vhaedrpprogramsupport - the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance
• Learn more Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
  Not Authorized