Nurse (Ambulatory Care)

About the Position: Serve as a Nurse (Ambulatory Care) at the Andrews Medical Group-Malcolm Grow Medical Clinics & Surgery Center located at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. Responsible for comprehensive professional clinical and preventive nursing care to patients in an outpatient setting. This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

Provide comprehensive professional nursing services of an advanced nature requiring critical thinking skills.

Assess and manage acute and episodic healthcare concerns, health maintenance and promotion, disease prevention and management, patient education and counseling, patient advocacy, case management, and coordination of care for patients.

Screen and prioritize based on the patient’s condition and preferences, the situation, cultural and age-specific considerations, education level and health literacy, and/or anticipated need for urgent and emergent care.

Gather information and/or documentation required for continuation of care referral requests; lab and diagnostic test results; providing healthcare information; and/or care coordination.

Make independent nursing diagnoses by analyzing assessment data to determine patient care needs, i.e., preventive services, health promotion, health maintenance, or health-related problems or issues.

Ensure compliance with professional standards of care and practice.

Must be proficient in all technical aspects of non-invasive cardiac testing to include ECG, treadmill stress testing, dobutamine stress echo IV insertion and holter/ambulatory monitoring.