About This Role
This night-shift post on the cardiac ward pairs patient care with mentoring new nurses.
Responsibilities
- Perform a board spectrum of patient care services at the expert level
- Provide primary psychiatric care via medication management to Veteran adults on the BHIP team
- Assess, diagnose, treat, and measure outcomes of healthcare problems
- Initiate and adjust therapeutic regimens
- Perform histories and evaluations
- Order diagnostic and therapeutic tests/studies
- Initiate consults and referrals
- Prescribe medications/supplies in accordance with VA policy, VA Formulary, State regulations, and scope of practice
- Serve as a consultant to both nursing and medical staff for patients with complex treatment or care needs
- Work collaboratively with other interdisciplinary team members in providing quality care and patient education
- Participate in research activities
- Assist patients in acute and chronic rehabilitation techniques
- Serve on medical center, VISN, and/or national committees
- Assist in the development, evaluation, and communication of policies and standards of advanced nursing practice
Requirements
- U.S Citizenship (Non-citizens may be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy)
- Full unrestricted Licensure, Certification, or Registration
- Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate State-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)
- For graduates of foreign schools of professional nursing, possession of current, full, active, and unrestricted registration will meet the requirement of graduation from an approved school of professional nursing
- Completion of course work equivalent to a nursing degree in a MSN Bridge Program that qualifies for professional nursing registration
- 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
- Master of Science in Nursing with a major as a Nurse Practitioner from a program accredited by the NLNAC or CCNE at time of graduation
- National certification as Nurse Practitioner from the American Nurses Association or another nationally recognized certifying body (Certification must be in the specialty to which the individual is being appointed or selected)
- Colorado Prescriptive Authority
- Willingness to work weekends, irregular work hours, and extended hours
