Summary
About the Position: This postion is with the Defense Health Agency; Defense Health Network East. Located at Blanchfield Army Community Hospital, Family Medicine at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. This is an open continuous announcement. Multiple vacancies exist and may be filled from this announcement at any of the locations listed. We accept applications on an ongoing basis; qualified applicants will be considered as vacancies become available. This is a Direct Hire Solicitation
Responsibilities
Provide practical nursing care to patients with a variety of medical conditions, performing tasks such as recording vital signs, ordering labs.
Perform direct nursing care to clinic patients via telemedicine and face-to-face care to include triage, procedures, nurse-managed protocols, medication management, and administrative duties.
Conduct focused nursing assessments and contribute to the care plan in collaboration with the healthcare team.
Administer prescribed medications with increased independence, ensuring proper patient dosages, routes, and times are followed.
Provide patient and family education tailored to specific medical conditions, treatment plans, and recovery goals
Assist educating patients to include diet, personal hygiene, acute or chronic illness, preventative health measures, development, immunizations, use of medical devices, and addresses questions about ongoing care.
Track laboratory results, radiology orders and referral results to completion, and assisting in making future appointments.
Qualifications
Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. Basic Requirement for Practical Nurse (Outpatient) : Licensure: A current license to practice as a practical or vocational nurse in a State, territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia; OR must have applied for a license to practice. Applications of candidates possessing a license must be accompanied by a certified or photostatic copy of the license, a notarized statement attesting to the fact, or a citation of the license number and State issuing it. Non-licensed candidates who have completed their training may be appointed subject to obtaining the required license during the probationary period. Those not licensed must furnish the date on which they applied for a license and the jurisdiction involved. No person appointed pending licensure may be retained beyond the probationary period if licensure has not been attained. In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirement listed below: Experience: One year of nursing experience in a hospital, outpatient clinic, nursing home, or other supervised medical, nursing, or patient care facility that provided a practical knowledge of human body structure and sterile techniques and procedures, performing such duties as measuring vital signs to assess, monitor, or detect changes in patients; screening or updating patient medical records within an automated healthcare system; and assisting with routine procedures for assigned patients. This definition of experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-04). Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.