Job Opportunity At Eastern Oklahoma Va Health Care System
Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System is a Joint Commissioned accredited Level 1c complexity that consists of a 61-bed hospital located in Muskogee as well as six community-based outpatient clinics located in Tulsa, Bartlesville, Claremore, Vinita, McAlester, and Idabel. In 2021, Congress approved federal funding for a new Veterans Hospital in Tulsa which will be the first hospital to be built under the Communities Helping Invest through Property and Improvements Needed for Veterans Act of 2016.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for providing competent, evidence-based care to assigned patients.
- Provides patient management, care coordination, and discharge/disposition planning for inpatient and outpatient settings.
- Assists Veterans, family members, and caregivers with receiving the most appropriate options and services to meet their complex health care needs.
- Coordinates care with multiple providers across all levels and sites of care.
- Addresses psychosocial, as well as nursing and medical needs of patients and their families/caregivers, through participation with the interdisciplinary care team.
- Analyzes and manages laboratory and radiology results and provides information to the providers.
- Utilizes databases to provide population management to track patient care through all episodes of care.
- Evaluates care and outcomes to ensure timely and appropriate provision of services.
- Leads the facility's efforts to integrate current and future Connected Health Modalities with healthcare providers and patients and serves as liaison and administrator to VISN and National teams.
VA Offers A Comprehensive Total Rewards Package:
- Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards
- Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year
- Retirement: Traditional federal pension and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
- Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care
- Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US state or territory
- Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 7:30am-4:00pm
- Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
- Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Requirements
- U.S. Citizenship
- 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.
- Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- Subject to background/security investigation.
- Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification 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).
- You may be required to serve a probationary period.
Qualifications
- Basic Requirements
- English Language Proficiency.
- 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.
- 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.
- Preferred Experience: Experience with technology preferred.
- Grade Determinations
- The following Scope, Education and Dimension criteria must be met in determining the grade assignment of candidates, and if appropriate, the level within a grade.
Physical Requirements
- This position requires visual acuity, keen hearing, clear distinctive speech, and manual dexterity.
- This position requires potentially long periods of continued walking, standing, stooping, sitting, bending, pulling, and pushing.
- Transferring patients and objects may be required.
- The incumbent may be exposed to infected patients and contaminated materials and may be required to don protective clothing in isolation situations, operative/invasive procedures, or home settings.
- The incumbent may occasionally be exposed to patients who are combative secondary to delirium, dementia, or psychiatric disorders.
- The incumbent must be a mature, flexible, sensible individual capable of working effectively in stressful situations, able to shift priorities based on patient needs.
- Must complete annual Employee Health requirements, such as annual TB screening or testing, as a condition of employment.
- In addition, this position requires a pre-employment physical.
- Requires lifting 45 pounds and over; pushing and pulling; reaching above shoulder; use of fingers and both hands; walking and standing for 6 hours; and kneeling.
- Ability for rapid mental and muscular coordination simultaneously.
- Near vision correctable at 13" to 16" to Jaeger 1 to 4. Far vision correctable in one eye to 20/20 and to 20/40 in the other.
- Must have depth perception and ability to distinguish basic colors and shades of colors.
- Hearing aid is permitted.
Education
Additional Information
- This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.
- This position is in the Excepted Service and does not confer competitive status.
- VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply.
- The health-related positions in VA are covered by Title 38, and are not covered by the Schedule A excepted appointment authority.