Advanced Practice Nurse - Practitioner; 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.

• The Nurse Practitioner is a clinical provider that practices within the Rules and Regulations of the Nursing Practice Act of the state of licensure
• The Nurse Practitioner collaborates with other disciplines to develop, implement, and coordinate a system of patient care delivery that promotes communication, teamwork, high quality care, patient satisfaction, positive outcomes, appropriate utilization of resources and cost-effective services
• The Nurse Practitioner practices general medicine with a focus on community-based outpatient clinical care
• The Nurse Practitioner independently follows his/her own panel of general medicine patients - functioning as their primary care provider
• The primary care Nurse Practitioner provides total care of the patient's medical needs by performing history and physical exams - ordering appropriate lab tests - evaluating those tests to ensure quality care of the patient
• This will include providing preventative medicine services - managing chronic disease problems and providing outpatient follow-up as needed
• The primary care Nurse Practitioner will ensure that the care is coordinated and communicated to the outpatient
• The primary care Nurse Practitioner will provide services as directed to meet the needs of the patient population being served by the medical center
• The Nurse Practitioner must be flexible in the work assignments based upon the immediate needs of the service line
• The primary care Nurse Practitioner must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served by the Wilmington VA Medical Center
• The individual must demonstrate the knowledge of the changes associated with aging and possess the ability to provide care based upon physical, psycho/social, cultural, safety and other age-related factors as noted in the competencies described in departmental and/or unit specific policies and procedures
• 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 to Friday - 8am to 4:30pm;
  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 ??????? Contact VHAVISN
  04HR
  EDRP - the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance
• Learn more Permanent Change of Station (PCS): ???????
  
  Not Authorized