Registered Nurse (Ambulatory Care)

Registered Nurse (Ambulatory Care)

This position supports the Chesapeake VA Clinic on South Military Highway in Chesapeake, VA The Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) Outpatient Staff RN is responsible for providing competent, evidence-based 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, to Veterans and their care within the Primary Care Department

Duties

• The Hampton VA Health Care System Center is a 1-C, teaching facility serving Eastern Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina. The main campus is in Hampton, Virginia with 4 community-based outpatient clinics in Chesapeake, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach, Virginia and Elizabeth City, North Carolina. There is one new Health Care Center in Chesapeake VA. Hampton VAMC provides comprehensive health care which includes Primary Care, Acute Inpatient, Acute Psychiatric, Chronic Spinal Cord Injury, a 169-bed Domiciliary, and long-term Community Living Center/Hospice Care Unit. Functions or Scope of Assigned

Duties

• Manages assigned panel(s), utilizes registries, and ensures appropriate evaluation and access is provided to patient panels. Provides health promotion, health education and coaching on wellness, disease prevention, and chronic care management. Assist in directing the provision of nursing education, orientation, competencies and providing quality improvement and outcomes utilization. Demonstrates leadership in delivering and improving holistic, primary care through collaborative strategies with others. Evaluates practice in an ongoing process, based on best evidence Partners with others to effect change and produce optimal outcomes. Supports colleagues through knowledge sharing to provide safe, quality outpatient nursing care. Shares educational findings, experiences, and ideas with peers. Questions PACT clinical practices for the purpose of providing evidence-based care. Participates in activities and strategies to sustain evidence-based-practice. Specifically, the PACT RN assumes the role of Charge or Co-charge Nurse. Demonstrates timely and effective communication. Promotes seamless care coordination. E Ensures effective and timely management of CPRS alerts, Call Center Relay Messaging Queue (CMRQ), and Secure Messaging by ensuring that patients' requests are acknowledged within 72 hours of receipt. Consistently complies with the Standard of Work (SOW) for ED and Inpatient 2-day post discharge calls Contributes to Accreditation Readiness including Quick Sweeps, Environment of Care (EOC) rounds, and clinic daily logs. Leads and/or participates in daily huddles. Initiates and follows through with patient schedule scrubbing days to weeks in advance. Conducts Outreach to patients prior to appointment time to complete reminders. Triages walk-in patients and collaborate with providers to determine a plan of care Collaborates with patients and interdisciplinary teams. Responsible for a robust chronic disease management program. Monitors PACT metrics with particular emphasis on HEDIS measures. Demonstrates proficiency in PACT reports including eQM (electronic quality management), VSSC (VA Support Service Center), SAIL and Primary Care Almanac, and PACT Compass. Collaborates with the patients and care teams to develop meaningful goals for patients. 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: 0800-1630 or 0730-1600, M-F. Telework: Ad-Hoc Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Qualifications

• Basic

Requirements

• English Language Proficiency. In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7403(f), no person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English. Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate accrediting agency and accredited by one of the following accrediting bodies at the time the program was completed by the applicant: The Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE); OR Individuals attending a master's level bridge program in nursing who have completed coursework equivalent to a bachelor's level degree in Nursing may have opportunity to become registered as a nurse with a state licensing board prior to completion of the bridge program. Upon achievement of a