Advanced Practice Nurse (Nurse Practitioner)

About the role

Nurse Practitioners play a crucial role in delivering compassionate care to American Indian and Alaska Native communities. They analyze patient histories, develop treatment plans, diagnose and treat health issues, and prescribe medications.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and interpret patient histories, symptoms, physical findings, or diagnostic information to develop appropriate diagnoses.
• Develop treatment plans based on scientific rationale, standards of care, and professional practice guidelines.
• Diagnose or treat acute health care problems such as illnesses, infections, and injuries.
• Prescribe medications based on efficacy, safety, dosage, and frequencies.
• Educate patients about self-management of acute or chronic illnesses, tailoring instructions to patients' individual circumstances.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Selectees may be subject to a probationary period.
• Must successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check.
• Position subject to rotating shifts; days, evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays.
• On-call hours or standby duty may be required.
• The agency must ensure that persons hired for these positions have not been found guilty of or pleaded nolo contendere or guilty to certain crimes.
• Due to this requirement, the agency must ensure that persons hired for these positions have not been found guilty of or pleaded nolo contendere or guilty to certain crimes.
• Vaccine exemption requests may be available according to the National and/or Service Unit guidance.

Qualifications

• A graduate or higher-level degree, bachelor's degree, associate degree, or diploma from an accredited professional nursing educational program is required.
• Successfully complete a PhD or equivalent doctoral degree from a professional nursing educational program or related medical science field.
• At least one full year of professional advanced practice nursing experience (equivalent to the GS-9 grade level).
• One or more full years of professional advanced practice nursing experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level.
• Perform or request special screening, developmental or laboratory tests and interpret the results.
• Provide direct medical care in the presence of illness or disability in order to maintain life, provide comfort, reduce distress and enhance coping ability.
• Prescribe and monitor medication/therapies, adjusting dosages or frequency as appropriate.
• Refer patients to appropriate higher level medical (or other) facilities, providing full clinical information for care and diagnostic procedures, facilitating emergent transfer to higher level of care when indicated.
• Collaborate with health care professionals to develop treatment protocols, standards of practice and policies.

Benefits

Receive a recruitment/relocation sign-on bonus, if eligible. A REAL ID will be required beginning May 7, 2025, in accordance with 6 C.F.R. 37.5 (2021).

Pay

Check out IHS's outstanding total compensation package for this job: Nurse Practitioner Total Compensation | Pay (ihs.gov)

Schedule

Position subject to rotating shifts; days, evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays. Shift rotations may vary from 8, 10 and 12-hour shifts.