Nurse Practitioner

Amazing civilian opportunity to work at A. T Augusta Military Medical Center!

Nurse Practitioner opening in support of the Intrepid Spirit Center Excellence in Ft Belvoir, VA caring for patients with traumatic brain injury.

Schedule: Monday - Friday, 40 hours

Job Details

• Implement and adapts medical theories and technologies, paralleling the latest advancements in scientific evidence, medical initiatives, and evolving healthcare technologies.

• Analyze epidemiological, biostatistical, environmental, and other appropriate scientific data, related to individual, aggregated, and population health. Reflect the growing significance of evidence-based practice, evidence-based interventions, and population-based chronic care management. Critically appraise existing medical literature/journals to determine and implement the optimal evidence for patient care plan.

• Integrate the art and science of both nursing and primary care/subspecialty medicine into practice. Assess acute and non-acute clinical problems. Obtain and records a problem-oriented health history; orders and interprets related laboratory and diagnostic tests.

• Perform a systematic physical examination and interprets abnormal and normal findings to form a diagnosis regarding physical, emotional, or social disabilities.

• Utilize experimental theories and new developments in the solution of complex health care problems, not susceptible to treatment by accepted methods.

• Prescribe medication, initiates emergency care, as appropriate.

• Conduct interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary collaboration with physicians regarding patient management, to include evaluating and revising therapeutic plans and managing high-risk, unstable, or extremely complex patients.

• Initiate and implements strategies to evaluate outcomes of practice, practice patterns, and systems of care against National benchmarks. Services associate in design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of healthcare and clinical research.

• Complete training to obtain knowledge and maintain competency in the following systems: MHS Genesis, Dragon dictation software, and Microsoft Office programs.

• Comply with regulatory, MTF, and Joint Commission quality inspection/ peer review/ utilization management requirements, and applicable system applications.

• Contractor employees shall prepare all documentation to meet or exceed established MTF standards, to include, but not limited to: timeliness, accuracy, content, and signature. Contractor employees shall only use DoD approved abbreviations for documentation in the patient health records.

• Document and close notes in MHS Genesis within three (3) business days of patient encounters.

• Respond to beneficiary messages submitted and received in the MHS Genesis secure portal systems within one (1) business day.

Qualifications

• Degree: Masters Degree or Doctoral Degree as a Nurse Practitioner.
• Education: Must be a graduate of 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).
• Board Certification: National certification for APRN practice in the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification (AANPCB).
• Certifications: BLS from the American Heart Association or American Red Cross
• Experience: At least two years of experience providing direct patient care in a clinical setting within the past five years, while privileged as a Nurse Practitioner.
• Licensure: Current, full, active, and unrestricted license to practice as a Nurse Practitioner.

H&W Rate: $5.42

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance