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Nurse Practitioner (General Surgery)

  • Full Time, onsite
  • Veterans Health Administration
  • Columbia, United States of America
Salary undisclosed

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  • Obtaining medical histories and performing physical examinations.
  • Provides and coordinate medical care for assigned patients in any care setting, including establishing diagnoses, formulating, and implementing care plans, and providing follow-up care.
  • Evaluates outpatients to determine the need for further health care.
  • Carry out health promotion, disease prevention, and patient education activities.
  • Order and obtain laboratory specimens.
  • Order VA specialty consults in accordance with VHA and local facility policy and procedures.
  • Ancillary services, such as, pharmacy, social services, physical medicine and rehabilitation therapies, prosthetic services, etc.
  • Order patient care supplies.
  • Write orders for or prescribing medications.
  • Admits and discharge patients in consultation with, and on behalf of, the collaborating physician, obtaining admission history and performing physical examinations, conducting patient rounds, documenting progress notes and summaries in the patient record, and writing patient orders on assigned patients.




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 (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: Tuesday-Friday 0700-1730.
Telework: Not Available.
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized.

Starting at $100,846 Per Year (VN 00)