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Nurse Practitioners

  • Nurse practitioner resident training

    Nurse practitioner resident training

    “Scrub 101” teaches nurse practitioner residents how to assist providers in a sterile environment, such as in an operating room

  • Embrace the power of primary care with a career at VA

    Embrace the power of primary care with a career at VA

    As a primary care practitioner, you have skills and training that are valuable to our nation’s Veterans. Learn about the rewards waiting for you at VA.

  • Saluting VA’s 7,167 nurse practitioners

    Saluting VA’s 7,167 nurse practitioners

    VA recognizes nurse practitioners for the critical role they play in increasing access to care for Veterans throughout the VA health care system.

  • Nurse practitioners – a unique program for expanding care for Veterans

    Nurse practitioners – a unique program for expanding care for Veterans

    Twenty-eight new nurse residency programs were added in academic year 2021-2022 in response to one of America’s critical health care occupation shortages.

  • Essential events: Where to find VA recruiters this fall

    Essential events: Where to find VA recruiters this fall

    With the arrival of the fall season, VA recruiters are [...]

  • VIDEO: VA nursing career provides flexibility, work-life balance

    VIDEO: VA nursing career provides flexibility, work-life balance

    Working as a VA nurse was a natural career move [...]

  • Take advantage of protected training time through VA’s nurse residency program

    Take advantage of protected training time through VA’s nurse residency program

    VA’s nurse residency program helps newly licensed nurses get ready to address the unique health care needs of Veterans.

  • El Paso VA vaccinating Home-Based Primary Care Veterans

    El Paso VA vaccinating Home-Based Primary Care Veterans

    Many Veterans in the Home-Based Primary Care program are elderly and extremely vulnerable to communicable diseases. Nurses and nurse practitioners volunteered to work the weekend to vaccinate them.

  • VA is hiring more nurses during the coronavirus pandemic

    VA is hiring more nurses during the coronavirus pandemic

    VA has hired more nurses to support Veteran patient health care during the coronavirus pandemic. In March, VA conducted more than 2,300 screenings and interviews for nursing staff.

  • 30 nurses deploy to Gulf Coast VA locations

    30 nurses deploy to Gulf Coast VA locations

    More than thirty nurse practitioners, licensed practical nurses and registered nurses reported in August to the Biloxi VA as part of planned response to Veteran need during global health crisis.

  • Discover a life-changing career in Veteran mental health at Psych Congress

    Discover a life-changing career in Veteran mental health at Psych Congress

    Discover how you can make a difference in Veterans’ lives as a VA mental health practitioner at Psych Congress 2019 in San Diego.

  • Explore VA career pioneering safe pain care at PAINWeek 2019

    Explore VA career pioneering safe pain care at PAINWeek 2019

    Talk with VA recruiters about healthcare careers in pain management for Veterans at PAINWeek 2019, the national conference for frontline practitioners.

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Last updated November 17, 2025

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