Nurse Consultant PD19R071 – Bureau of Primary Health Care

Duties

This position is located in the Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Office of Quality Improvement. The duty location is Rockville, MD.

Nurse Consultants are a mission critical occupation for HRSA. These positions are critical in supporting Health Resources and Services Administration’s nursing care and treatment for outpatient, specialty clinics, urgent care and/or emergency patients.

As a Nurse Consultant, your major duties and responsibilities include:

Serving as an expert analyst in developing, monitoring, implementing, and evaluating current or projected complex, interrelated public health programs specifically aimed at improving health care quality in community health centers and networks of community health centers using health information technology.

Analyzing existing or proposed systems, strategies, services, or other health-related matters for long-rang implementation and administration of large public health programs.

Providing expert clinical nursing and program perspective in the assessment of polices, projects, and data related to the measurement of quality, legislative, and administrative proposals, and makes recommendations to HHS managers.

Providing contract or project management or oversight related to the quality of nursing services and health care delivery.

Consulting with experts in the delivery of nursing services and health care delivery to obtain information or assistance related to issues of concern.

Preparing issue papers, specifications for regulations, issuances, manuals, and reports to Congress,
and correspondence for an assigned health policy area, including clinical coverage issues for patient
care, medical and nursing assessments, and clinical case management.