Nurse Practitioner - Gastroenterology

Responsibilities

• Direct patient care - including telephone, video, and face-to-face outpatient care
• Ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests
• Suscribing medications and procedures per established policies and guidelines
• Consultation
• Research

Requirements

• Nurse Practitioner (NP): Responsible and accountable for all elements of the nursing process when providing and/or supervising direct patient care
• Assesses - plans - implements and evaluates care based on age-specific components
• Coordinates care focused on patient transition through the continuum of care - patient and family education - patient self-management after discharge - and supporting factors that impact customer satisfaction
• Collaborates with members of the interdisciplinary team

Qualifications

• Knowledge and active participation in unit/program level quality improvement processes and initiatives as well as customer service programs
• Demonstrates leadership in delivering and improving holistic care through collaborative strategies with others (VA Handbook 5005 - Part II - Appendix G6)
• Demonstrates proficiency in decision-making and using the nursing process for complex situations that effect performance outcomes at the point of care
• Enhances practice through development of collegial relationships
• Demonstrates self-sufficiency by the ability to solve problems independently
• Demonstrates critical thinking with efficiency and accuracy in assessing and managing situations

Benefits

• Comprehensive total rewards package including competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards, paid time off, retirement, federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care, and telework options

Pay

• Competitive salary
• Regular salary increases
• Potential for performance awards

Schedule

• 8:00am - 4:30pm - Monday - Friday