Registered Nurse- Patient Aligned Care Team Outpatient

About the role

The Veterans Healthcare System of the Ozarks seeks a Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) Outpatient Staff Registered Nurse (RN) for the Jay-Oklahoma location.

Responsibilities

• Delivers fundamental - knowledge-based care to assigned clients while developing technical competencies.
• Utilizes registries and ensures appropriate evaluation and access is provided to patient panels.
• Manages assigned panel(s).
• Provides health promotion, health education, and coaching on wellness, disease prevention, and chronic care management.
• Administers medications and procedures per established policies and guidelines.
• Influences care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Affords assistance in directing the provision of nursing education, orientation, competencies, and provides quality improvement and outcomes utilization.
• Improves Veteran/patient-driven care by resolving experience issues such as coordination of care, timeliness, or process issues, common themes of dissatisfaction, or environment of care concerns for the immediate practice setting.

Requirements

• Basic Requirements: English Language Proficiency, Graduate of an approved nursing program, Current full active unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse, Possession of a current full active unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States, or the District of Columbia.
• Nurse I - Level I: Associate Degree (ADN) or Diploma in Nursing, Nurse I - Level II: ADN or Diploma in Nursing AND 1 year of specialized nursing experience, Nurse I - Level III: ADN or Diploma in Nursing AND 2 years of professional nursing experience, Nurse II: BSN with 2 years of professional nursing experience, Nurse III: MSN and 2 years of specialized nursing experience, Doctoral degree in Nursing with 1 year of specialized nursing experience.

Qualifications

• Basic Requirements: English Language Proficiency, Graduate of an approved nursing program, Current full active unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse, Possession of a current full active unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States, or the District of Columbia.
• Nurse I - Level I: Associate Degree (ADN) or Diploma in Nursing, Nurse I - Level II: ADN or Diploma in Nursing AND 1 year of specialized nursing experience, Nurse I - Level III: ADN or Diploma in Nursing AND 2 years of professional nursing experience, Nurse II: BSN with 2 years of professional nursing experience, Nurse III: MSN and 2 years of specialized nursing experience, Doctoral degree in Nursing with 1 year of specialized nursing experience.

Skills

• Ability to lift 45 pounds and carry 45 pounds, ability to walk 7 hours, stand 7 hours, reach above shoulder, use fingers, both hands required, kneel 0.5 hours, bend 7 hours, both legs required, ability for rapid mental and muscular coordination simultaneously, near vision correctable at 13"" to 16"" to Jaeger 1 to 4, far vision correctable in one eye to 20/20 and to 20/40 in the other, ability to distinguish basic colors, ability to distinguish shades of colors, hearing without aid, mental and emotional stability, work with detergents and antiseptic solutions.

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 insurance.

Pay

• Competitive salary with regular salary increases and potential for performance awards.

Schedule

• Monday - Friday 8:00am to 4:30pm (subject to change per the needs of the facility).

Telework/Virtual

• This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives

• Not authorized.

Permanent Change of Station (PCS)

• Not authorized.