Nurse Practitioner; Home Based Primary Care

Summary

The Home Based Primary Care (HBPC) Nurse Practitioner (NP) is a registered nurse with advanced educational and clinical preparation for delivery of primary and comprehensive health care - incorporating selected medical services into professional nursing practice.

• The NP provides comprehensive care to patients with a variety of medical - surgical - or psychiatric diagnoses
• Care is provided to individuals - families and groups with an emphasis on the promotion of health and the prevention of disease
• The NP manages a panel of home care patients who have complex - chronic and end-of-life problems including common diseases and human responses to disease
• The NP exhibits strong clinical skills to improve patient care for an aging - adult population
• as well as excellent interpersonal relationship skills in interpreting and communicating health care information to the patient - family - and the interdisciplinary health care team
• The NP executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership - experience - and creative approaches to management of complex client care
• Duties include but are not limited to:
  Diagnosing and treating acute and chronic health care problems - performing adult care check-ups - and prescribing medication and treatments
• Performs patient interviews - physicals - psychosocial assessments - and documents findings
• Initiates appropriate screening - diagnostic - and laboratory studies and treatment - analyzes results - and makes appropriate referrals or consultations
• Analyzes patient data - integrates information obtained into patient database - and identifies health care requirements
• Develops and evaluates a patient management plan - including patient education - within an interdisciplinary framework
• Provides episodic care - which could include cardiopulmonary resuscitation and treatment of shock - hemorrhage - poisoning - burns - convulsions - trauma and emotional crisis as needed
• Visits HBPC patients on wards and communicates with inpatient staff to promote optimal continuity of patient care
• Prescribes medication in accordance with NP prescribing privileges
• Prescribes non-pharmacological therapies and treatments including but not limited to prosthetics - colostomy supplies - dressings - etc
• Serves as a patient advocate and facilitates communication with patients - families/significant others - and other home and community team members
• 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 Financial Disclosure Report:
  Not required.