<p>The Home Based Primary Care (HBPC) Outpatient Staff Registered Nurse (RN) Case Manager executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex HBPC care. This nurse provides direct Veteran care and care coordination, as it pertains, to Veterans and their care within the HBPC Program.</p> <p>The responsibilities of the HBPC RN include, but are not limited to:</p> <ul> <li>Demonstrates leadership, experience, and creative approaches to the management of HBPC clients with complex needs who live in their own homes or other community settings. </li><li>Performs activities as outlined in the Nurse Qualification Standards. </li><li>In this complex role, exhibits flexibility, sound judgment, independent problem solving and decision making, as well as collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of primary care providers in health promotion and disease prevention. </li><li>Must be a skilled clinician who demonstrates leadership in patient advocacy, provides, coordinates, facilitates, and improves patient care and customer service through health promotion and disease prevention as well as providing direct patient care utilizing protocols for selected disease management programs. </li><li>Uses sound judgment in assessing, planning, implementing, documenting and evaluating patient care and accurately documents and reports care -Identifies, analyzes and resolves patient care problems whose resolution results in the significant improvement of care to individual and/or groups of patients. </li><li>The incumbent achieves these objectives through: </li><li>Appropriate application of current concepts to clinical practice </li><li>Implementation of case management principles </li><li>Effective application of interpersonal relationship skills </li><li>A customer service focus </li><li>Coordination of the interdisciplinary team effort toward quality patient care </li><li>Integrity and assessing performance measures within his/her scope of practice. </li><li>This clinical position includes a level of physicality normally associated with direct patient care duties performed by nurses such as potentially long periods of continued walking, standing, sitting, moderate lifting, repeated bending, or kneeling. </li><li>Examples may include but are not limited to: </li><li>Significant amounts of time standing assisting assigned patients </li><li>Utilization of safe patient handling and mobility protocols Supervisory Controls: </li><li>The incumbent is responsible to the assigned rating and approving supervisors and is accountable to the Associate Director of Patient Care Services (ADPCS). </li><li>Qualifications Requirements: In addition to the Basic Requirements provided in VA Handbook 5005, Part II, Appendix G6, paragraph 2, the following are the grade requirements </li></ul> <p>Work Schedule: 08:00am - 4:30pm Monday - Friday</p> <p>Telework: Not Available</p> <p>Virtual: This is not a virtual position.</p> <p>Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized</p> <p>Financial Disclosure Report: Not required</p> <p>Physical Requirements: Standing (up to 2 hours), walking (up to 6 hours), stooping, bending, reaching, lifting, and turning; repositioning patients, assisting with transfers; pushing or lifting in excess of 45 pounds; visual (corrected to 20/30 or better with color discrimination); auditory acuity; arms above shoulder level; neck in a fully flexed or extended position; work on computers for extended periods of time. Work is primarily conducted in a well-ventilated, adequately heated and cooled building. May be exposed to inclement weather when traveling around medical center. May be exposed to normal office irritants - dust, pollen, noise, vibrations, or odors. May be exposed to therapy animals with and without advanced notice. May be exposed to patients and family in emotional upheaval or extreme pain. Must have emotional stability to properly care for usual patient population.</p>