Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Primary Care

Summary

The Twin Ports Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) has an opening for a Full-Time APN. 13 CBOCs within the Minneapolis VA Health Care System provide care to Veterans near their home town and serve over 47,000 Veterans throughout Minnesota and Western Wisconsin. The Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) provides a full range of services emphasizing quality, timeliness, and the advancement of the Veterans Affairs (VA) mission.

The APN provides advanced clinical practice, consultation, and management.

• 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. The services currently provided include internal medicine/primary care – which is defined as the continuous, coordinated and interdisciplinary provision of comprehensive health services in an outpatient setting for a defined panel of assigned patients as well as those patients assigned to colleagues when access to care is necessary utilizing the Primary Care Management Module (PCMM) VHA standards.
• Each Nurse Practitioner (NP) will have a collaborating physician with a signed practice agreement.
• The Nurse Practitioner panel will be adjusted based on VISN standards for panel management.
• Services that will be provided to defined paneled patients include but are not limited to: diagnosis, treatment and referral of acute and chronic medical conditions; screening for diseases according to CDC and VA guidelines; targeted health promotion and disease prevention activities; health education; case management; referral service and urgent care.
• PACT clinics are focused on the Advanced Clinic Access principles.
• These principles promote access when the veteran feels the need to be evaluated.
• The care setting is not limited to the clinic visits with the provider – it includes My Healthy Vet – telephone triage and clinic visits with team members such as the RN case manager, social worker and pharmacist.
• Focus on care includes the chronic disease initiative focusing on areas of CHF, COPD and DM, mental health collaboration in the PC setting, MOVE program focusing on weight loss, diet and activity as well as health promotion/disease management.
• Work Schedule:
  
  The tour of duty for this position is typically Monday – Friday – days.
• Additional information may be provided during the interview process.