Summary

The Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) Certified Nurse Practitioner (NP) practices in Surgery Service to provide a full range of services emphasizing quality - timeliness - and the advancement of the Veterans Affairs (VA) mission.

Duties

• Duties include but are not limited to: Provide direct patient care - including order writing - documentation - admitting - discharging - and performing indicated procedures
• Assist with administrative tasks to improve overall team functioning
• Organize and direct daily work rounds
• Ensure cardiothoracic post-operative pathway checklist elements and plans of the day are addressed during daily rounds
• Provide patient cross-coverage to facilitate House staff attendance at educational conferences
• Serve as clinical preceptor for APN trainees and students in affiliation with area universities
• Independently manage a panel of patients with acute and chronic health conditions with an emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention using evidence-based practice
• Develop and implement individualized plans to achieve optimal population health and disease management
• Demonstrate leadership and work collaboratively with the interdisciplinary team
• Order and interpret laboratories - tests - and diagnostic studies
• Prescribe pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions
• Initiate referrals and consults to specialty services as indicated
• Provide education to patients and their families
• Assess and adjust plans of care to achieve optimal outcomes
• Exemplify ICARE core values-Integrity - Commitment - Advocacy - Respect - and Excellence
• 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 - 4:30pm Telework: Not available Virtual: This is not a virtual position
• Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized