Registered Nurse (PACT) Primary Care

About the role

The Registered Nurse position is in the Nursing service at the VA Bedford Healthcare System - located at the Bedford - MA location. This position is full time at 40 hours per week.

Responsibilities

• Manages assigned panel(s) - utilizes registries - and ensures appropriate evaluation and access is provided to patient panels
• Provides health promotion - health education and coaching on wellness - disease prevention - and chronic care management
• Affords support in directing the provision of nursing education - orientation - competencies and providing quality improvement and outcomes utilization
• Demonstrates leadership in delivering and improving holistic - primary care through collaborative strategies with others
• Evaluates practice in an ongoing process - based on best evidence
• Provides peers with informal constructive feedback for improvement
• Fosters a safe and supportive environment conducive to the professional development of healthcare professionals
• Partners with others to effect change and produce optimal outcomes
• Supports colleagues through knowledge sharing to provide safe - quality outpatient nursing care
• Shares educational findings - experiences - and ideas with peers
• Participates in activities and strategies to sustain an evidence-based-practice culture
• Assumes other related duties

Requirements

• English Language Proficiency
• Basic Education Requirements
• 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

Qualifications

• Scope - Education and Dimension criteria must be met in determining the grade assignment of candidates - and if appropriate - the level within a grade
• 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

Skills

• Leadership in delivering and improving holistic - primary care through collaborative strategies with others
• Evaluates practice in an ongoing process - based on best evidence
• Shares educational findings - experiences - and ideas with peers
• Participates in activities and strategies to sustain an evidence-based-practice culture

Benefits

• 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)

Pay

Competitive salary - regular salary increases - potential for performance awards

Schedule

Monday-Friday
8:00am-4:30pm

Telework

Ad-hoc

Virtual

This is not a virtual position