Clinical Nurse Leader
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs · Reno, NV · 1 mo ago
Healthcare$200/hrFull-time
We need to produce HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Not present. Responsibilities? Duties. Requirements? Qualifications. Benefits? There's a VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package with details: Pay, PTO, Retirement, Insurance, Licensure, Work Schedule, Telework, Relocation/Recruitment Incentives, EDRP Authorized, etc. We need to include sections only if posting has real specific content. So we can have sections: Responsibilities (duties), Qualifications (basic requirements, grade determinations, preferred experience, physical requirements), Benefits (maybe combine Pay, PTO, Retirement, Insurance, Licensure, Work Schedule, Telework, EDRP). However we must not create sections with filler like "not specified". The posting includes: "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: M-F - 7:30am-4:00pm Telework: AD-HOC Virtual: This is not a virtual position Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive Contact V21CCOEEDRP@va.gov - the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance Learn more Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized"
We should include sections: Benefits (maybe with subpoints). Pay: "Competitive salary - regular salary increases - potential for performance awards". Schedule: "M-F - 7:30am-4:00pm". Telework: "AD-HOC" (though they say Virtual: This is not a virtual position). EDRP: mention eligibility and contact. Also mention "Former EDRP participants ineligible". Also "Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized". Also "Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized". We can include these under Benefits or separate sections? The instruction: Use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have separate headings for Benefits, Pay, Schedule. But we should only include sections when posting has real specific content. It does have Pay, Schedule, Benefits (the total rewards). So we can create sections: Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Possibly also Skills? Not present. We'll omit Skills.
We need to use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have separate headings for Benefits, Pay, Schedule. But we should only include sections when posting has real specific content. It does have Pay, Schedule, Benefits (the total rewards). So we can create sections: Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Possibly also Skills? Not present. We'll omit Skills.
We need to use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So for duties list, we need
- . For qualifications, we have many subpoints; we can break into
- . For benefits, we can list items.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate like EEO etc. The posting didn't have obvious boilerplate except maybe at end "Learn more". We'll drop that.
We must preserve all substantive information. So we need to include the EDRP eligibility details, contact email, etc.
We need to ensure we don't invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep specifics like "Competitive salary - regular salary increases - potential for performance awards". Not just "Competitive salary". Keep as is.
We need to format as HTML fragment only.
Let's structure:
Responsibilities
- Counsel's patients to monitor symptoms and guides patient actions related to health maintenance strategies and self-care
- Directs staff to provide appropriate patient teaching and self-care strategies
- Collaborates/consults with patient and other care providers to direct plan of care
- Utilizes a repertoire of strategies to care for and manage a person's symptoms - which may include end of life care
- Provides supervision of clinical care to ensure effective outcomes in complex patient populations
- Routinely schedules rounds to ensure the diffusion of evidence-based nursing practice
- Demonstrates expert knowledge regarding medical center policies - procedures - memoranda that address ethical conduct and practices - in order to serve as a resource to staff in addressing and advocating for the protection of staff - patient and family rights
- Promotes practices reduce bed days of care and cost effective use of resources
- Accurately documents care of clients
- Works collaboratively with all members of the healthcare team including other advanced practice nurses - physicians - social workers - chaplains - dietitians and pharmacists to develop and trend performance improvement indicators
- Serves as a mentor/preceptor to staff and/or students
- Uses management skills and principles to provide and supervise practice within specific episodes and across episodes of illness and disease
Qualifications
We need to include Basic Requirements, Grade Determinations, Preferred Experience, Physical Requirements. Could break into subheadings? But only allowed headings are those listed; we could still use for Qualifications and then inside use
or
. We can include nested for lists.
We need to preserve all details. Let's extract:
Basic Requirements:
- English Language Proficiency (per 38 U.S.C. 7403(f) - must be proficient in basic written and spoken English)
- Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by appropriate accrediting agency and accredited by ACEN or CCNE at time program completed.
OR Individuals attending a master's level bridge program in nursing who have completed coursework equivalent to a bachelor's level degree in Nursing may have opportunity to become registered as a nurse with a state licensing board prior to completion of the bridge program.
Upon achievement of a State license - the individual may be appointed on temporary basis and later converted to a permanent appointment upon successful completion and graduation from the bridge program (Reference VA Handbook 5005 - Appendix G6)
OR In cases of graduates of foreign schools of professional nursing - possession of a current - full - active - and unrestricted registration will meet the requirement for graduation from an approved school of professional nursing to warrant an appointment as a Nurse who has completed an associated degree/entry level Nursing education program
Credit for foreign nursing education higher that associate degree/entry level requires a formal degree equivalency validation from a recognized equivalency evaluation accepted by VA such as International Consultants of Delaware (ICD)
Current - full - active - and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a State - Territory or Commonwealth (i.e. - Puerto Rico) of the United States - or the District of Columbia
Graduate Nurse Technician (GNT) Exception: Candidates who otherwise meet the basic education requirements - but do not possess the required licensure - may be appointed at the entry step of the grade and level applicable to the completed nursing education as a GNT on a 120-day temporary appointment while actively pursuing licensure (may be extended up to two years on a case-by-case-basis.)
NOTE: Grandfathering Provision - All persons currently employed in VHA in 0610 series and performing the duties as described in the qualification standard on the effective date of the standard (1/29/2024) are considered to have met all qualification requirements for the grade held including positive education and licensure/certification
Grade Determinations: The following Scope - Education and Dimension criteria must be met in determining the grade assignment of candidates - and if appropriate - the level within a grade
The Dimension requirements (Practice - Veteran/Patient Driven Care - Leadership - Professional Development and Evidence-Based Practice/Research) are detailed for each grade and level within the online assessment: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13059191
Then list Grade/Level Scope Education details for Nurse I - Level I, II, III, Nurse II, Nurse III.
We need to preserve all that text. It's long but we must include.
Preferred Experience: CNL certificate mandatory for position
Physical Requirements: This position requires visual acuity - keen hearing - clear distinctive speech - and manual dexterity
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
Must complete annual Employee Health requirements - such as annual TB screening or testing - as a condition of employment.
We'll put these in - where appropriate.
Now Benefits section: The posting includes "VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: ...". We'll break into items.
We can have
Benefits
- 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: M-F - 7:30am-4:00pm
- Telework: AD-HOC (Virtual: This is not a virtual position)
- Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
- EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact V21CCOEEDRP@va.gov - the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance
- Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
We could also have separate Pay and Schedule sections as per instruction, but we already included them under Benefits. The instruction says we can use those headings; but we should not create thin sections. It says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So maybe better to keep Benefits as one section containing all those items. However they gave examples of headings including Pay, Schedule. But we can choose to not create separate Pay and Schedule if we think it's thin. However the posting does have specific Pay and Schedule details; we could include them as sub-items under Benefits. That seems fine.
We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
Now we need to output only HTML fragment.
Let's craft.
Be careful to escape any HTML special characters? The text includes hyphens, colons, etc. No need to escape unless we have < or >. There's a URL: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13059191 - that's fine.
We'll produce:
Responsibilities
...
Qualifications
...
Benefits
...
Make sure each - contains the full sentence.
Now we need to include all details from Qualifications. Let's break into logical items.
We'll create sub-items for each bullet.
Basic Requirements
- . For qualifications, we have many subpoints; we can break into
- . For benefits, we can list items.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate like EEO etc. The posting didn't have obvious boilerplate except maybe at end "Learn more". We'll drop that.
We must preserve all substantive information. So we need to include the EDRP eligibility details, contact email, etc.
We need to ensure we don't invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep specifics like "Competitive salary - regular salary increases - potential for performance awards". Not just "Competitive salary". Keep as is.
We need to format as HTML fragment only.
Let's structure:
Responsibilities
- Counsel's patients to monitor symptoms and guides patient actions related to health maintenance strategies and self-care
- Directs staff to provide appropriate patient teaching and self-care strategies
- Collaborates/consults with patient and other care providers to direct plan of care
- Utilizes a repertoire of strategies to care for and manage a person's symptoms - which may include end of life care
- Provides supervision of clinical care to ensure effective outcomes in complex patient populations
- Routinely schedules rounds to ensure the diffusion of evidence-based nursing practice
- Demonstrates expert knowledge regarding medical center policies - procedures - memoranda that address ethical conduct and practices - in order to serve as a resource to staff in addressing and advocating for the protection of staff - patient and family rights
- Promotes practices reduce bed days of care and cost effective use of resources
- Accurately documents care of clients
- Works collaboratively with all members of the healthcare team including other advanced practice nurses - physicians - social workers - chaplains - dietitians and pharmacists to develop and trend performance improvement indicators
- Serves as a mentor/preceptor to staff and/or students
- Uses management skills and principles to provide and supervise practice within specific episodes and across episodes of illness and disease
Qualifications
We need to include Basic Requirements, Grade Determinations, Preferred Experience, Physical Requirements. Could break into subheadings? But only allowed headings are those listed; we could still usefor Qualifications and then inside use
or
- . We can include nested
- where appropriate.
Now Benefits section: The posting includes "VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: ...". We'll break into items.
We can have
Benefits
- 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: M-F - 7:30am-4:00pm
- Telework: AD-HOC (Virtual: This is not a virtual position)
- Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
- EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact V21CCOEEDRP@va.gov - the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance
- Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Responsibilities
- ...
Qualifications
- ...
Benefits
- ...
- contains the full sentence. Now we need to include all details from Qualifications. Let's break into logical items. We'll create sub-items for each bullet. Basic Requirements
- for lists.
We need to preserve all details. Let's extract:
Basic Requirements:
- English Language Proficiency (per 38 U.S.C. 7403(f) - must be proficient in basic written and spoken English)
- Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by appropriate accrediting agency and accredited by ACEN or CCNE at time program completed.
OR Individuals attending a master's level bridge program in nursing who have completed coursework equivalent to a bachelor's level degree in Nursing may have opportunity to become registered as a nurse with a state licensing board prior to completion of the bridge program.
Upon achievement of a State license - the individual may be appointed on temporary basis and later converted to a permanent appointment upon successful completion and graduation from the bridge program (Reference VA Handbook 5005 - Appendix G6)
OR In cases of graduates of foreign schools of professional nursing - possession of a current - full - active - and unrestricted registration will meet the requirement for graduation from an approved school of professional nursing to warrant an appointment as a Nurse who has completed an associated degree/entry level Nursing education program
Credit for foreign nursing education higher that associate degree/entry level requires a formal degree equivalency validation from a recognized equivalency evaluation accepted by VA such as International Consultants of Delaware (ICD)
Current - full - active - and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a State - Territory or Commonwealth (i.e. - Puerto Rico) of the United States - or the District of Columbia
Graduate Nurse Technician (GNT) Exception: Candidates who otherwise meet the basic education requirements - but do not possess the required licensure - may be appointed at the entry step of the grade and level applicable to the completed nursing education as a GNT on a 120-day temporary appointment while actively pursuing licensure (may be extended up to two years on a case-by-case-basis.)
NOTE: Grandfathering Provision - All persons currently employed in VHA in 0610 series and performing the duties as described in the qualification standard on the effective date of the standard (1/29/2024) are considered to have met all qualification requirements for the grade held including positive education and licensure/certification
Grade Determinations: The following Scope - Education and Dimension criteria must be met in determining the grade assignment of candidates - and if appropriate - the level within a grade
The Dimension requirements (Practice - Veteran/Patient Driven Care - Leadership - Professional Development and Evidence-Based Practice/Research) are detailed for each grade and level within the online assessment: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13059191
Then list Grade/Level Scope Education details for Nurse I - Level I, II, III, Nurse II, Nurse III.
We need to preserve all that text. It's long but we must include.
Preferred Experience: CNL certificate mandatory for position
Physical Requirements: This position requires visual acuity - keen hearing - clear distinctive speech - and manual dexterity
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
Must complete annual Employee Health requirements - such as annual TB screening or testing - as a condition of employment.
We'll put these in
- . For benefits, we can list items.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate like EEO etc. The posting didn't have obvious boilerplate except maybe at end "Learn more". We'll drop that.
We must preserve all substantive information. So we need to include the EDRP eligibility details, contact email, etc.
We need to ensure we don't invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep specifics like "Competitive salary - regular salary increases - potential for performance awards". Not just "Competitive salary". Keep as is.
We need to format as HTML fragment only.
Let's structure: