Registered Nurse - PACT – Amazon Store
Summary The Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) Registered Nurse (RN) provides Veteran and family health education with a focus on self-management, shared decision making, and prevention and wellness that is based on the individual Veteran's goals. The PACT RN provides patient and family health education with a focus on self-management, prevention, and wellness, based on the patient's goals. Duties Help The Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) Registered Nurse (RN) enhances health care quality by providing health education, clinically appropriate preventive and therapeutic care, and fostering partnerships among patients, their personal support persons, and PACT Staff. The RN facilitates care coordination and navigation through a complex health care system, working across multiple care settings. This includes accessing health care providers and other services in the community to help patients receive the care they need and want without unnecessary duplication of services or avoidable inconvenience. Care coordination involves open communication among health care providers, legally permissible exchange of health care information, and logistical integration of health care encounters. Additionally, the PACT RN plays a key role in population management, a data-driven process designed to proactively identify a specific cohort of patients who may benefit from a tailored health care plan. This includes reaching out to individual patients within the cohort to offer timely interventions, rather than waiting for patients to self-identify and seek care on their own. Duties include but not limited to:
- Promotes Evidence-based patient-driven care incorporating population health
- Identifies and manages patient populations with chronic diseases
- Monitors PACT metrics for teamlet
- Collaborates with key members for the expanded team-(i.e.) Health Behavior Coordinator, health Promotion Disease Preventions Program Manager, MOVE Coordinator, Women's Health Coordinator, etc.
- Responsible for ensuring completion of all the roles and responsibilities on the Clinical Associate Roles and Responsibilities
- Delegates nursing activities; assumes oversight of all nursing care
- Facilitates transitions through collaboration with multi-disciplinary services, both internal and external to the VA Health System
- Performs scheduled/unscheduled clinic visits, group visits, telephone visits, and triages patients
- Promotes access through non-traditional patient encounters when appropriate
- Verifies and ensures completion of all orders
- Coordinates plan of care based on individual needs
- Oversees RN Clinics
- U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- You may be required to serve a probationary period.
- Subject to background/security investigation.
- Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents). Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- English Language Proficiency. In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7403(f), no person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English.
- Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate accrediting agency and accredited by one of the following accrediting bodies at the time the program was completed by the applicant: The Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE); OR Individuals attending a master's level bridge program in nursing who have completed coursework equivalent to a bachelor's level degree in Nursing may have opportunity to become registered as a nurse with a state licensing board prior to completion of the bridge program. Upon achievement of a State license, the individual may be appointed on temporary basis and later converted to a permanent appointment upon successful completion and graduation from the bridge program. (Reference VA Handbook 5005, Appendix G6); OR In cases of graduates of foreign schools of professional nursing, possession of a current, full, active, and unrestricted registration will meet the requirement for graduation from an approved school of professional nursing to warrant an appointment as a Nurse who has completed an associated degree/entry level Nursing education program. Credit for foreign nursing education higher that associate degree/entry level requires a formal degree equivalency validation from a recognized equivalency evaluation accepted by VA such as International Consultants of Delaware (ICD).
- 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: Candidates who otherwise meet the basic education requirements, but do not possess the required licensure, may be appointed at the entry step of the grade and level applicable to the completed nursing education as a GNT on a 120-day temporary appointment while actively pursuing licensure (may be extended up to two years on a case-by-case-basis.)
- Bachelor's in Nursing
- Minimum two years varied medical/surgical/critical care clinical experience as an RN with above average clinical and health assessment skills
- Strong computer skills
- Current BLS through the American Heart Association
- Demonstrated excellent critical thinking skills in a rapidly changing environment
- Demonstrated strong teaching skills
- Excellent skills in interpersonal relations with the health care team and the general public: strong patient/family advocate
- Team player who is proactive to change
- Creativity, flexibility, and the ability to work in fast-paced changing environments
- Three-five years varied medical/surgical/critical care clinical experience as an RN with above average clinical and health assessment skills
- Previous primary care/family practice/medical home and/or community-based experience
- Previous experience in Case Management