Advanced Practice Nurse - Employee Occupational Health Nurse Practitioner

Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs; St. Louis (MO); In loco; USD 110.000 - 160.000; Tempo pieno

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Paid time off: 50 days/year (26 annual

Sick leave: 13 days/year

Federal holidays: 11 per year

Federal health/vision/dental insurance

Descrizione del lavoro

The Advanced Practice Nurse - Employee Occupational Health NP serves in Primary Care Service, delivering advanced clinical care, consultation, and employee health management for Veterans Affairs.

The role emphasizes health promotion, disease prevention, and safety for staff, with a standard Monday–Friday schedule and VA total rewards benefits.

Mansioni

• Functions as an expert consultant in health promotion, disease prevention, and safe patient handling and movement.
• Develops, implements, coordinates, and evaluates employee health education programs.
• Safeguards the health and safety of employees and others.
• Conducts pre-placement physical exams to assess fitness for duty.
• Performs exams and medical reports for OWCP cases treated in the facility.
• Performs administrative examinations to determine medical qualification status upon request.
• Performs special evaluations to determine fitness-for-duty when requested.
• Orders laboratory tests, x-rays, and referrals as indicated.
• Collaborates with the Occupational Health Physician for diagnosis and treatment plan in complex cases.
• Refers medical problems beyond the scope of EOH to the next level of care.
• Collaborates with Infectious Disease, Infection Prevention, Whole Health for employee health education plans.
• Provides health counseling to employees to promote compliance with stress management and injury prevention.
• Performs annual health screenings and wellness evaluations.
• Exemplifies ICARE values: Integrity, Commitment, Advocacy, Respect, Excellence.
• Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized.

Descrizione del lavoro

Summary

The Advanced Practice Nurse - Employee Occupational Health NP practices in Primary Care Service to provide a full range of services emphasizing quality - timeliness - and the advancement of the Veterans Affairs (VA) mission. The NP provides advanced clinical practice - consultation - and management.

Duties

• Major Duties Include but are not limited to: Functions as an expert consultant in health promotion - disease prevention - and safe patient handling and movement Actively contributes to the development - implementation - coordination - and evaluation of VHA employee health education programs - taking into consideration the age - development needs - and occupational needs of employees
• Safeguards the health and safety of employees and others
• Identifies unsafe working conditions or health hazards
• Conducts pre-placement physical exams to assess physical - cognitive - and emotional fitness for duty
• Performs exams and completes medical reports for all OWCP (Office of Workers' Compensation Programs) cases treated in the facility
• Performs administrative examinations to determine medical qualification status when requested
• Performs special evaluations to determine fitness-for-duty when requested
• Orders laboratory tests - x-rays - diagnostic studies and makes referrals as indicated for further assessment
• Collaborates with the Occupational Health Physician for confirmation of diagnosis and treatment plan in complex or unstable employee care situations
• Refers medical problems beyond the scope of EOH to the next appropriate level of care
• Collaborates / consults with colleagues from Infectious Disease - Infection Prevention - Whole Health and other groups to direct plan of health education for employees
• Provides health counseling to employees to encourage compliance for specialized stress management - injury prevention and other health promotion needs
• Performing annual health screenings and wellness evaluations
• Exemplifies the ICARE core values of-Integrity - Commitment - Advocacy - Respect - and Excellence
• VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards Pay: Competitive salary - regular salary increases - potential for performance awards Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave - 13 days of sick leave - 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory Work Schedule: Monday through Friday - 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM Telework: Ad hoc Virtual: This is not a virtual position
• Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized
• Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized.