Registered Nurse; PACT Outpatient

Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) Outpatient Staff Registered Nurse (RN)

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) Outpatient Staff Registered Nurse (RN) is responsible and accountable for individual nursing practice and determines the appropriate delegation of tasks consistent with the nurse's obligation to provide optimal care.
• This nurse provides sex-specific direct Veteran care and care coordination, as it pertains, to Veterans and their care within the Primary Care Department.
• This nurse provides health promotion, health education and coaching on wellness, disease prevention, and chronic care management.
• Ability to formulate a plan of care based on nursing assessments.
• Seeks guidance on how to improve care provided to patients and families.
• Delegates elements of care to the appropriate individual based upon assessed needs, condition, and safety of the patient.
• The nurse brings primary care principles and theory with limited application of critical thinking skills.
• Specifically, the PACT RN assumes the role of Charge or Co-charge Nurse. Demonstrates timely and effective communication. Promotes seamless care coordination. 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.
• 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.
• 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. Conducts nurse visits and provide patient education.
  
  Rooms patients, performs treatments, administers medications, performs other patient care duties. Follows up on Community Care Consults.
• The Outpatient RN is fully competent in the application of Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior (PMDB) to Level
  3. They are directly responsible to the Nurse Manager, Chief Nurse of Ambulatory Care and Associate Director of Patient Care Services. Outpatient nurses provide service to outpatient care settings and specialize in the whole health of the Veteran. The Outpatient RN demonstrates technical and operational knowledge and can apply PMDB skills in the outpatient setting.
• Knowledge of professional nursing practice and the ability to apply the nursing process (assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation) with close supervision.
• Knowledge of Veteran/patient driven care, patient experience, satisfaction, and safety.
• Communicates, collaborates, and utilizes leadership principles to perform as an effective member of the interprofessional team.
• Incorporates educational resources/opportunities and self evaluation for professional growth.
• Awareness of evidence-based practice/research to improve quality of care and resource utilization.
• Meets the needs of all customers while supporting the Medical Center and Service missions.
• Provides care and/or services appropriate to the age of the patients being served, and which is appropriate to the cognitive; emotional, and chronological maturation of the patient.
• Protects printed and electronic files containing sensitive data in accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974 and other applicable laws, federal regulations, VA statutes and policy, and VHA guidelines.

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:

M-F 8:00am-4:30pm

Telework:
Ad-hoc as needed.

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment

Incentives:

Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
Not Authorized