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OUR MISSION: To fulfill President Lincoln's promise - "To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan" - by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's Veterans. How would you like to become a part of a team providing compassionate care to Veterans?
01/16/2019 to 01/29/2019
$68,599 - $115,330 per year
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1 vacancy in the following location:
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CBCA-10401781-19-MJL
521835100
1st Consideration: Current Central Texas Veterans VA employees 2nd Consideration: Current VA employees 3rd Consideration: All other applicants
The Registered Nurse (RN) assigned to the VAPORHCS Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) Primary Care Clinic functions as the PACT Nurse Care Manager (NCM) and may be assigned to the clinics located in Portland, Vancouver, Camp Rilea, Bend, Salem, Fairview, The Dalles, West Linn, Community Resource Referral Center (CRRC), or Hillsboro. The PACT NCM is a member of the PACT Teamlet (Primary Care Provider, Nurse Care Manager, Licensed Practical Nurse, Health Technician, and Clerical Associate) and supports the work of the expanded team (Pharmacist, Social Worker, Home Telehealth RN, Psychologist, and Dietician). The NCM demonstrates advanced clinical knowledge in assessing, planning, implementing, documenting, and evaluating care for an assigned panel of patients at VAPORHCS: Recognizing the age-related cognitive, physical, emotional, and chronological maturation needs of the adult and geriatric patient focusing on chronic disease management. Identifies and provides case management for high-risk cohort of patients utilizing chronic disease management data mining tools to include but not limited to Care Management Tool (CMT), Business Intelligent Strategic Learning (BISL), VISN 20 Access Report, VISTA, and VHA Support Service Center (VSSC) reports such as PC Almanac, Compass, Primary Care Management Module (PCMM) Care Needs Assessment (CNA). Utilizes other registries to manage disease processes such as Diabetic, Mammography, Cardiovascular, and Opioid Registries to access data base for pain management. Performs timely Post-Discharge/ ED/ Urgent Care and Walk-ins' using appropriate documentation templates/notes, codes, education. Assesses and enrolls eligible patients into nontraditional modalities of care such as Home telehealth and Telemedicine. Utilizes Teach and Motivational Interviewing techniques to encourage positive health behavioral change and Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Provides patient and family education with a focus on self-management, prevention, and wellness, based on 'what matters most' to the patient. Reviews, tracks, and devises strategies to improve Healthcare Effective Data Information Sets (HEDIS) metrics, clinical reminders, panel access, timely encounter closures, and other performance metrics.
Work Schedule: Monday-Friday; varying tours
Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/ . If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.
Physical Requirements: This position requires potentially long periods of continued walking, standing, stooping, sitting, bending, pulling and pushing. Transferring patients and objects may be required. The incumbent may be exposed to infected patients and contaminated materials and may be required to don protective clothing in isolation situations or operative/invasive procedures. The incumbent may occasionally be exposed to patients who are combative secondary to delirium, dementia, or psychiatric disorders. The incumbent must be a mature, flexible, sensible individual capable of working effectively in stressful situations, able to shift priorities based on patient needs.
Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
Annual leave shall accrue for full-time Nurses, and Nurse Anesthetists at the rate of 8 hours for each full biweekly pay period.
This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.
It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those that have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment.
This position is in the Excepted Service and does not confer competitive status.
United States Citizenship Required; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply. The health related positions in VA are covered by Title 38, and are not covered by the Schedule A excepted appointment authority.
Veterans and Transitioning Service Members: Please visit the VA for Vets site for career-search tools for Veterans seeking employment at VA, career development services for our existing Veterans, and coaching and reintegration support for military service members.
If you are unable to apply online or need to fax a document you do not have in electronic form, view the following link for information regarding an Alternate Application.
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
In describing your experience, please be clear and specific. We may not make assumptions regarding your experience.
Your application, résumé and/or supporting documentation will be verified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect consideration for employment.
NOTE: Applicant's education and length of nursing practice (experience) will be considered by a Nurse Professional Standards Board in determining the grade and step of the applicant selected.Experience as an RN will be evaluated to determine if the experience is of an acceptable level of quality with regard to the following four dimensions of nursing: Practice, Professional Development, Collaboration and Scientific Inquiry. Each dimension of practice has criteria that demonstrate essential core competencies for VHA Nursing Personnel. The criteria are as follows:
Practice: practice, ethics and resource utilization;
Professional Development: performance, education/career development;
Collaboration; collaboration, collegiality;
Scientific Inquiry: quality of care, research.
All applicants are required to submit the following supporting document type(s):
·VA Form 10-2850a Application for Nurse and Nurse Anesthetists ): http://www.va.gov/vaforms/medical/pdf/vha-10-2850a-091998-fill.pdf )
Application 10-2850a is required to be considered for this position. Please complete the form in its entirety. If you answer "YES" to questions 30 through 38, please attach a separate sheet of paper with a brief explanation for each question to which you answered "Yes". Information must be current and not older than a year. Outdated and/or incomplete applications will be ineligible for consideration.
·Resume: Your resume must include the following information for each job that you list:Job title; Complete Work Place Addresses ; Duties (be as detailed as possible); Month and year start/end dates (e.g. June 2007 to April 2008); Full-time, part-time status, PRN (include hours worked per week).
Applicants may also submit the following supporting document type(s),which may not be required for all applicants:
·Cover Letter
·DD-214
·OF-306
·Other Veterans Document
·SF-15
·SF-50
·Transcript - If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
All applicants are encouraged to apply online. To apply for this position, you must complete the full questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 01/29/2019~ to receive consideration.
Once your online application is submitted you will receive a confirmation notification by email. After we receive application packages (including all required documents) and the vacancy announcement closes, we will review applications to ensure qualification and eligibility requirements are met. After the review is complete, a referral certificate(s) is issued and applicants will be notified of their status by email. Referred applicants will be notified as such and may be contacted directly by the hiring office for an interview. All referred applicants receive a final notification once a selection decision has been made.
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VA Portland Health Care System (VAPORHCS) is a Level 1A interdisciplinary teaching and quarternary facility with service-lines serving primary care, emergency medicine, medicine, surgery, specialty, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurology, oncology, dentistry, geriatrics and multiple community-based outpatient clinics (CBOC). VAPORHCS operates a Community Resource and Referral Center (CRRC) which serves homeless Veterans in downtown Portland and also provides Home-Based Primary Care. VAPORHCS received initial Magnet designation in May 2006, re-designation in December 2010, and again in October 2015.