RN Outpatient Primary Care PACT

About the role

This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) – a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific eligibility requirements per VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program approval – award amount (up to $200,000) and eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after review of the EDRP application. Former EDRP participants are ineligible to apply.

Qualifications

• English Language Proficiency: must be proficient in basic written and spoken English (38 U.S.C. 7403(f)).
• Education: Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate accrediting agency and accredited by ACEN or CCNE; or equivalent pathways (master’s level bridge program, foreign nursing education with current full active unrestricted registration, or degree equivalency validation).
• Licensure: Current full active unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a U.S. state, territory, Commonwealth, or District of Columbia.
• Graduate Nurse Technician (GNT) exception: candidates meeting basic education requirements but lacking licensure may be appointed as a GNT on a 120‑day temporary appointment (extendable up to two years) while pursuing licensure.
• Grade determinations: specific scope‑education and dimension criteria for Nurse I‑Level I‑III, Nurse II, Nurse III (see posting for detailed combinations of ADN/Diploma, BSN, MSN, Doctoral degrees and required experience).
• Preferred experience: 5 years of Med/Surg RN experience or 2 years of RN ER/ICU experience within the last 3 years; 1 year RN Adult Outpatient Primary Care experience within the past 3 years; BSN or above; AAACN Ambulatory Care Certification.

Responsibilities

• Complete face‑to‑face, telephone, and video assessments to establish nursing diagnoses as needed.
• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care based on population‑specific components.
• Use judgment to select appropriate order and sequence of procedures and treatments; accurately recognize, report, and record patient information.
• Observe, identify, and respond to patient needs for care, including medication, equipment‑assisted care, and patient/family education.
• Provide health education and procedural teaching to patients and significant others.
• Perform procedures per established policies and guidelines.
• Influence care outcomes through effective communication and collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
• Administer medicine per established policies and guidelines.
• Establish priorities and make ethically‑sound decisions to ensure safe patient care.
• Assist physicians during diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to promote optimal patient outcomes.
• Respond to emergency situations by recognizing changes in patient health status.
• Perform diagnostic studies within the scope of nursing practice as ordered by the physician.
• Document patient data to ensure continuity of care.
• Collaborate with other health care professionals.
• Communicate with veterans and family members regarding veteran’s care.
• Apply knowledge of human behavior, patient motivations, and reactions to work effectively with patients, families, and staff.
• Establish constructive relationships with patients and families to promote positive relationships and communication.
• Foster an environment of respect for individual patient and family rights to privacy and dignity.