Total 240 Health / Beauty / Fitness job vacancies in Fort Cavazos, Texas

The Registered Nurse, Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) duties include, but are not limited to the following:

• Completes face to face, telephone, and video assessments to establish nursing diagnoses as needed.
• Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates care based on population specific components.
• Knowledge and ability to appropriately carry out assigned patient care based on the patients' conditions; to use judgment in selecting the appropriate order and sequence of procedures and treatments; and to accurately recognize, report and record relevant patient information.
• Ability to observe, identify and respond to the patient's needs for care, including medication, equipment-assisted care, and patient/family education.
• Providing health education and procedural teaching to patients and significant others.
• Perform procedures per established policies and guidelines.
• Influences care outcomes using effective communication and collaboration with members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Administering medicine per established policies and guidelines.
• Establishing priorities and making ethically-sound decisions to ensure safe patient care.
• Assisting the physicians during diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to promote optimal patient outcomes by team collaboration.
• Responding to emergency situations to promote optimal patient outcomes by recognizing changes in patient's health status.
• Performing diagnostic studies within the scope of nursing practice as ordered by the physician.
• Documenting patient data to ensure continuity in the provision and coordination of patient care.
• Collaborating with other health care professionals.
• Communicating with veterans and family members regarding veteran's care.
• Knowledge and understanding of human behavior, patient motivations and reactions to situations, and ability to appropriately utilize this knowledge in working effectively with patients, family members and other staff.
• Establishes constructive relationships with individual patients and their families to promote positive relationships and communication.
• Fosters an environment of respect for individual patient and family rights to privacy and dignity in all aspects of care delivery.
• May be responsible for charge nurse duties.
• Managing follow-up care.
• Acting as resource to others.
• Participating in continuing education, achieving/maintaining certification.
• Possess knowledge of unit level quality improvement indicators.
• Applies knowledge and actively participates in unit/program level quality improvement processes and initiatives.
• Provides excellent customer service according to ICARE values.
• Executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches in the management of complex patient care.
• Additional duties as assigned such as covering/float to other teams (Teamlet).

• Serves as budget analyst with responsibility in performing planning, coordination, execution, and analysis for annual and/or multi-year budgetary programs.
• Researches, compiles, and summarizes data involving obligations, expenses and object class/line-item information, narrative information, and quantitative budgetary data.
• Analyzes budgetary relationships and provides budgetary reports to the Chief, Portfolio Management for use in developing recommendations to accommodate actions under conditions of short and rapidly changing program and budgetary deadlines
• Participates in meetings and discussions with program officials to advise on importance and soundness of program requirements, budget plans, spend plans, and reports.
• Performs budget execution work involving the monitoring of incurred and actual expenditures of a budget.
• Selects and applies analytical methods and techniques to predict or assess the effects of budgetary and/or programmatic changes.

• Transport patients from hospital units to the operating room.
• Position patient for the specific surgical procedures according to established guidelines.
• Hand instruments to the surgeon during the procedure by anticipating the surgeon's needs.
• Select, assemble, and organize required supplies, equipment, and instruments for specific surgical procedures.
• Obtain supplies needed during surgery such as blood, drugs, solutions, instruments, and additional sterile supplies.
• Wash, disassemble, sterilize, and reassemble instruments after surgical procedure is complete.
• Assemble operating room carts according to scheduled surgical procedures.
• Clean operating room after surgical procedures.

• The position provides technical expertise on factual, procedural and/or recurring issues for the command, staff, and subordinate units on personnel actions.
• Responsible for management of various military personnel functions that include updating actions for Personnel Readiness Review (PRR), in/out processing, Meal Card issuance, promotions/reductions, evaluations, awards, etc.
• Provides services to military personnel who have pay problems, researches pay problems, follows through with the responsible office to alleviate any errors found and coordinates unique requirements.
• Researches, analyzes, and develops solutions/ prepares straight forward reports based on historical data, personnel records, governing regulations, and best practices.
• Plans, develops, and oversees military operations systems that support and implement programs concerning the components of the military operations/personnel management life cycle in relation to Soldier readiness and availability for deployment.

• Perform a range of diagnostic examinations and treatments according to clinic processes and procedures.
• Prepares patients and rooms for patient care activities, examinations and diagnostic test.
• Sets up equipment and instruments and hands instruments to health care providers.
• Take and record accurate vital signs and other required measurements.
• Verify patient's eligibility for treatment.
• Schedule appointment with the appropriate clinic and health care provider dependent on patient disposition, complaint or symptoms or services requested.
• Complete lab work and other point of care testing within scope of practice.
• Obtain lab samples, perform point of care testing, and deliver specimens directly to the lab.
• Administer oral, intradermal, subcutaneous, intramuscular immunizations to all age groups in accordance with established protocols.

• Conduct program evaluations to identify operational safety and health problems requiring resolution.
• Evaluate new trends to determine the need for further inquiry regarding elimination or control of serious hazards to life and property.
• Identify deficiencies requiring correction to properly implement national safety standards.
• Inspect work areas to identify and eliminate safety hazards or unhealthy environmental conditions.
• Serve as a Garrison Master Driver.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• The outpatient MH RN is responsible for providing patient-centered and recovery-oriented care and maintaining self-awareness while caring for patients living with MH conditions.
• The MH RN facilitates care coordination, linking with the Inpatient MH Units to facilitate continuity of care, MH interdisciplinary treatment team huddles and meetings, warm hand-offs, and develops content as well as facilitates nurse-led psychoeducational groups.
• The MH RN uses therapeutic communication techniques, practices de-escalation techniques, utilizes recovery-oriented language, and provides Veterans, their family members, and/or significant others with education regarding their illness, medications, and treatment plan.
• The MH RN reports and assists and/or directs safety concern resolution and collaborates with program leadership to help improve patient and program outcomes; and directs team response to psychiatric and medical emergencies.
• The MH RN executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex client care.
• The MH RN documents nursing triage assessments, risk screens, measurement-based care tools, clinical reminders, and patient plan of care according to facility policy.
• The MH RN maintains professional boundaries to protect patient vulnerabilities and act in the best interest of the patient

Patient Advocacy within VA exists to ensure patient concerns are heard and addressed to improve the overall experience and quality of care for patients. Effective, high-functioning Patient Advocacy is integral to fulfilling the goal of providing Veterans with world-class health care. Major duties and responsibilities include:

Complaint Resolution

• Manages the facility Veteran Centered Complaint Resolution (VCCR) process, including complaint resolution, data capture and analysis of issues/complaints to make system improvements
• Assists Service-Level Advocates (SLAs) and front-line staff in resolving issues and addressing more complex complaints
• Explores all avenues to properly identify the nature and scope of the problem and to initiate appropriate action to expedite a resolution
• Proactively identifies existing or potential problem areas and suggests solutions or alternatives to existing procedures which contribute to these problems

• Serves as the liaison between the facility, patients, staff, and the community, ensuring Patients understand their rights, in addition to, their responsibilities
• Works directly with health care teams, Service Chiefs, and management to facilitate resolution to problems beyond the capability of front-line staff and participate in resolution of system problems by presenting the patient's perspective of the problem and the desired resolution
• Maintains a strong relationship with Veterans Service Organizations and others whose interests are in helping and protecting Veterans, their families, and their representatives
• Serves as liaison with congressional offices, responding directly to their staff assistants on matters involving patient concerns or dissatisfaction

• Ensures VHA Patient Advocacy goals, policy and requirements are met by collecting, analyzing, and evaluating relevant data, and preparing reports based on that data
• Works to identify the elements of clinical or administrative practices contribute to or create an atmosphere for patient dissatisfaction and recommends changes
• Presents patient issues and data at various facility meetings and committees
• Works closely with Facility Management to discuss trending concerns that may indicate the need for system improvements

• Set up, clean, calibrate and monitor respiratory equipment to ensure proper functionality.
• Administer a variety of tests and analyze results to assess respiratory patients.
• Develop and monitor treatment plans for patients with a variety of respiratory issues.
• Instruct patients and families in the use of respiratory equipment for home use.
• Monitor and interpret values, such as pulse oximetry, arterial blood gas analysis and expired carbon dioxide.

• Work independently as a licensed clinical social worker uses advanced concepts, principles, procedures, practices.
• Conduct comprehensive risk assessments of family advocacy patients using psycho-social instruments to form diagnosis.
• Obtain relevant data from legal, investigatory, medical, command, social service agencies, schools, resource programs, etc.
• Interview offenders regarding allegations of abuse or neglect in order to establish them with treatment resources.
• Develop treatment plans based on identified problems, psycho-social factors and treatment capabilities.
• Perform crisis intervention services to assist in the protection of family advocacy victims.
• Prepare related records and documents for inclusion in the Family Advocacy Program (FAP) record.
• Prepare written diagnoses to document patient assessments and/or treatments.

• Assist management staff to develop and implement plans, procedures, policies, and programs to attain established nursing objectives.
• Assign personnel based on patient care needs according to the workload management system skill level and experience of nursing personnel.
• Make recommendations regarding necessary staffing adjustments for both short and long-term basis.
• Direct the work of all nursing personnel during the tour of duty, reviews quality of care provided and provides input for performance evaluations.
• Perform a wide variety of nursing duties on various wards and in the emergency room of the hospital, including direct patient care.
• Teach and mentor professional and paraprofessional nursing staff, assisting with complex nursing and diagnostic procedures.
• Coordinate activities that affect the Department of Nursing with other elements of the hospital such as Admissions and Dispositions, Administrative Officer of the Day, Nutrition Care Division, Laboratory, and Physicians.
• Examine and analyze problems and complaints by patients and makes administrative decisions appropriate to the responsibility of the position.
• Review patient records and plans of care.
• Perform duties as a Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examiner (SAMFE) which includes performance of on-call duties for SAFE exams.
• Provide forensic nursing care to victims by conducting head-to-toe physical assessment/examination, written and photographic documentation of injuries and evidence, and collection and packaging/preservation of physical evidence.
• Participate in related legal proceedings providing fact and/or expert testimony during legal proceedings when summoned or appointed to do so.
• Mentor, evaluate, and precept forensic nurses and other SAMFE trainees, and recommends modifications in the clinical training program as dictated by the individual learning needs or demonstrated ability of individual trainees.

• Perform independent, comprehensive telephone and clinical triaging, and facilitates care coordination through a multidisciplinary approach.
• Screen patient charts to assess the medical history and determine health care needs.
• Develop appropriate nursing plans.
• Communicate with providers regarding determinations and situations, documents events appropriately.
• Assist health care providers with examinations and procedures.
• Monitor or ensure the monitoring of patients pre, during and post-procedure per established protocols and SOPs
• Prepare and administer oral, subcutaneous, intra-muscular and intravenous medications.
• Recognize and report abnormal test results, changes in symptoms and the need for follow-up.
• Assist clinic with patient and staff education.

• Analyze operational support requirements/requests from higher Headquarters (HQ) and other Department of Defense (DOD) agencies.
• Inform Action Officers of delays, adjustments in suspense actions, and priorities or other major changes as they occur.
• Plan work, establish priorities, directs, reviews and accepts or rejects the work of military and civilian personnel assigned to the section.
• Perform Action Officer duties regarding Soldier Recovery Unit (SRU) Operations, training and plans.
• Conducts mission analysis of Operation Orders (OPORDs) and Fragment Orders (FRAGOs) assigned by Command leadership.
• Evaluate tasks and their impact on the Command’s mission and resources through analysis of time-sensitive messages.
• Regularly assist in the setup of briefings as directed by the Command team on operational matters involving the Soldier Recovery Unit (SRU).
• Prepare and present written and verbal information and decision briefings for the Command leadership in accordance with Army doctrine and policies.

This is a career ladder progression position; the duties described below are at the GS-11 level. If selected at a grade below GS-11, the incumbent will serve in a developmental capacity, wherein the work is less complex in nature and the supervisor, or a senior level employee provides specific instruction and guidance. At the GS-11 grade level, the incumbent:

• Independently conducts a wide variety of onsite safety and health inspections and investigations of mining operations as applicable, mills, preparation plants and related facilities.
• Prepares written reports of inspections and investigations, issuing citations and orders for violations found during examinations.
• Promotes safety and health among mine operators and workers by directing and participating in safety and health training programs, meetings, demonstrations, mine rescue competitions, and related activities.
• Provides technical advice and guidance to mine operators to help them solve problems and comply with mine safety and health requirements.
• Assists mine operators in the planning of modifications to improve and/or correct deficiencies in the operation such as selecting and installing new equipment and changing materials or methods.
• Promotes safety and health among mine operators and workers by directing and participating in safety and health training programs, meetings, demonstrations, mine rescue competitions, and related activities.
• Serves as a MSHA representative and information source on mine safety and health.
• Testifies at judicial hearings regarding notices of violations and orders of withdrawal.

Work Environment: The incumbent inspects and/or investigates both surface and underground mining operations as applicable, which is a very hazardous and stressful work environment surrounded by a high risk of exposure to potentially dangerous situations. In addition to the characteristically dark, wet, and cramped environment, underground mines contain noxious gases and fumes, and the danger of potentially explosive dust or gases, electrical fires, roof falls, and exposure to radiation.

Duties include, but are not limited to:
The incumbent is a member of a data team that explores new technologies and databases, including (but not limited to): VSSC, Pyramid Analytics, CDW (Corporate Data Warehouse), Power BI, TABLO, MAPTITUDE, and AMCMS (which is a new technology created in 2021). Participates in complex projects to apply the technologies in support of Veterans' health care needs. Assignments include complex segments of projects for which the incumbent is independently responsible. Inputs and retrieves data, prepares analyses and presents recommendations to senior specialists, supervisor, or others as may be appropriate.

Participates in assessing data to identify, quantify and resolve organizational problems. Work as part of a team for operations-focus assignments and projects initiated by data analysis or executive leadership. Projects and studies are diverse and intense in nature which requires feedback from subject matter experts or departmental or program offices. Assist with developmental documents which include report preparation from data analysis, project summaries and final recommendations.


Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:30am - 4:00pm, 8:00am - 4:30pm or 8:30am - 5:00p
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Program Analyst/PD00272A
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized