Advanced Practice Nurse

About the position

This Advanced Practice Nurse position is in Primary Care Service at the VA Providence Healthcare System, located at the Middletown location. This position is full-time at 40 hours per week. The role includes independently managing a panel of patients with acute and chronic health conditions with an emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention using evidence-based practice. The nurse will develop and implement an individualized plan to achieve optimal population health and disease management, demonstrate leadership, and work collaboratively with the Primary Care Team and other interdisciplinary team members. Responsibilities also include ordering and interpreting labs, tests, and diagnostic studies, prescribing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, initiating referrals and consults to specialty services, providing education to patients and their families, and assessing and adjusting the plan of care as needed to achieve optimal patient outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Independently manages a panel of patients with acute and chronic health conditions.
• Develops and implements an individualized plan to achieve optimal population health and disease management.
• Demonstrates leadership and works collaboratively with Primary Care Team and other interdisciplinary team members.
• Orders and interprets labs, tests, and diagnostic studies.
• Prescribes pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions.
• Initiates referrals and consults to specialty services.
• Provides education to patients and their families.
• Assesses and adjusts the plan of care as needed to achieve optimal patient outcomes.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship.
• Active, current, full, and unrestricted APN license to practice as an NP in a State, Territory or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia.
• Basic Certification in an area of clinical specialty from a recognized certifying body.
• Education: A post-master's certificate or master's or doctoral degree as a Nurse Practitioner from an accredited institution.
• Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program.
• Participation in the COVID-19 vaccination program.

Nice-to-haves

• Primary Care experience preferred.
• 1 year of Clinical Experience.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards.
• 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays).
• Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA.
• Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care insurance.