Summary

The Advanced Practice Nurse-Specialty Clinics position is located in Nursing - Specialty Clinics at the West Haven campus. This position is full time at 40 hours per week. This APRN works with our Heart Failure population and will coordinate often with Attending Physicians - RN Navigator and telehealth RN specializing in HF.

Duties

• VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards The Advanced Practice Nurse will function in Specialty Clinics and provide care and counseling of persons or in the promotion and maintenance of health and prevention of illness and injury based upon the nursing process which includes systematic date gathering - assessment - appropriate nursing judgement - and evaluation of human responses to actual or potential health problems
• Responsibilities include
• but are not limited to: Assisting the supervising Physician (or agent) in evaluation and management of inpatients and clinic patients: Performing initial histories and physical examinations on new outpatients and inpatients
• Providing ongoing inpatient and outpatient care for assigned patients
• Screening outpatients to determine need for further health care and/or admission
• Analysis of remote monitoring data
• Ongoing treatment of individuals with Cardiac devices - AICD/Pacer - etc.
• Monitoring of certain patient populations throughout procedures - i.e
• MRI
• Response to notifications from patient devices
• Longitudinal care for a complex population
• Seeing patients for routine monitoring and/or emergent needs in clinic
• 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 through Friday - 7:30 am-4:00 pm Virtual: This is not a virtual position
• Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Notifications: This position is an AFGE Bargaining Unit position
• May be required to attend conference at other facilities or other VA sites on occasion
• The incumbent may be required to travel to other VA campuses and CBOC's
• This position is in the Excepted Service.