Nurse (Outpatient)

About the role

The Indian Health Service (IHS) seeks dedicated Registered Nurses to provide comprehensive, evidence-based, and patient-centered care in an ambulatory setting. Our mission is to improve the health of American Indian and Alaska Native communities.

Responsibilities

• Deliver compassionate care to pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
• Provide oversight and direction to LVNs and nursing assistants.
• Contribute to care coordination, health promotion, education, and quality improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• Must have passed the NCLEX-RN.
• Current, active, full, and unrestricted license or registration as a professional nurse from a State, D.C., Puerto Rico, or territory of the United States.

Qualifications

• A graduate or higher level degree, bachelor's degree, associate degree, or diploma from an accredited professional nursing educational program is required.
• Experience in outpatient nursing duties including triage, patient assessment, and implementing provider/clinic standing orders.
• Experience administering medications/treatments and observing, recognizing, and documenting patient responses and condition changes.
• Experience coordinating patient care activities with the care team and communicating patient status/needs to providers and other staff.
• Experience developing plans of care with the care team per clinical practice guidelines.
• Experience providing guidance/training/mentoring to clinical and non-clinical staff.

Benefits

• Recruitment/relocation sign-on bonus.
• May be subject to a background investigation.
• May be subject to rotating shifts, including days, evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays.

Pay

• Details on pay structure provided at ihs.gov.

Schedule

• Rotating shifts, including 8-, 10-, and 12-hour shifts.