VA ICARE Award Recipient x2

Daisy Award Nominee

Passionate Nurse Practitioner with expertise in Primary Care, Sick Visits, Same Day Visits, Medical Weight Loss, Mental Health, ADHD, Depression, Anxiety, Men's Health, Chronic Pain Management, Addiction Medicine, and Hospital Medicine

An initial visit with a provider typically includes a medical history review, an assessment of your specific symptoms and concerns, and a treatment plan. 

Diagnosis, management, and treatment of mental health disorders through medication-focused treatments, delivering personalized medication strategies to enhance patients' mental well-being.

A follow-up visit with a provider involves checking the progress of the patient's treatment plan, assessing any new symptoms or managing side-effects of the treatment plan.  

Provides a structured approach to weight loss through the use of approved medications alongside lifestyle change.

Tailored to the specific health needs of men, covers a range of services from routine screenings and age-related health issues to reproductive and sexual health.

Offers comprehensive health assessments, routine check-ups, and preventative strategies to maintain optimal health.

Focuses on the diagnosis, treatment, and management of infectious diseases; managing acute and chronic infections, providing vaccinations, and offering travel health advice.

Explore a variety of support services tailored to your needs, including help with documentation, lab test prescriptions, and other miscellaneous support. 

Prescription Fulfillment enables providers to prescribe medications efficiently, ensuring patients receive the correct treatment promptly.

Offers specialized care for skin, hair, and nails, treating a wide range of skin conditions, performing skin surgeries, and providing cosmetic enhancements.

Joel Jones

Med-Surge/Critical Care Unit/Geriatric Psych 
• Works independently and autonomously 
• Provides a focused history for initial and ongoing physical examination 
• Performing physical examinations appropriate for age and clinical condition 
• Obtaining relevant health and medical information 
• Formulating a plan of care for diverse patients which is proven via evidenced based practice guidelines 
• Creating a correct differential diagnosis per patient clinical condition 
• Ordering and interpreting laboratory findings for diagnosis 
• Developing an evidenced base care plan per differential diagnosis, physical assessment, and diagnostic findings 
• Create high-quality cost-effective interventions and treatment plans 
• Conduct patient education and answering questions to promote health 
• Identifying patient needs and adding resources to promote patient’s overall health, compliance, and safety 
Evaluating the patient’s response to the treatment regimen and patient outcomes 


Hospitalist Nurse Practitioner

Med-Surge/Progressive Care/Intensive Care Units 
• Assessing and caring for patients in the Med- Surge, PCU, and ICU areas for the VA Hospital
• Restoring and promoting patients’ health including them in their care
• Establish a nurturing patient/nurse relationship providing a safe environment
• Answering patients’ question, giving education, and resolving problems using the interdisciplinary team
• Caring for the patient using the nursing process
• Correct Documentation
• Caring for a diverse patient population (Veterans and their families) which includes heart catherization, joint replacement, radical head and necks, bariatric patients among general 
diagnoses.
• Caring for Veterans and floating to need areas within the hospital


Float Pool Registered Nurse

Med-Surge/ Progressive Care Units 
• Assessing and caring for patients in the Med- Surge and PCU areas for IU North/Saxony
• Restoring and promoting patient’s health including them in their care
• Establish a nurturing patient/nurse relationship providing a safe environment
• Answering patients’ question, giving education, and resolving problems using the interdisciplinary team
• Caring for the patient using the nursing process
• Correct Documentation
• Caring for a diverse patient population which includes heart catherization, joint replacement, radical head and necks, bariatric patients among general diagnoses.


Resource Pool Registered Nurse

Med- Surge/Critical Care Department 
• Works independently and autonomously 
• Admit patients from the ED to corresponding unit dependent of diagnosis 
• Managing multiple issues simultaneously and appropriately prioritize based on patients’ needs 
• Formulating a plan of care for diverse patients according to evidenced based guidelines 
• Creating a correct differential diagnosis per patient clinical condition 
• Ordering and interpreting laboratory findings for diagnosis 
• Create high-quality cost-effective interventions and treatment plans 
• Conduct patient education and answering questions to promote health 
• Excellent customer service skills 
• Creating timely referrals for interventions and to promote health 

Nurse Practitioner 

Primary Care 
• Works independently and autonomously 
• Float Nurse Practitioner for the Primary Care PACT Teams 
• Managing acute and chronic diseases 
• Total holistic care of patients 
• Preventative Care, screening at appropriate age 
• Obtaining history and physical examination 
• Ordering diagnostic testing and interpretation of lab tests 
• Ordering correct medication therapy for acute and chronic diseases 
• Developing an evidenced base care plan per differential diagnosis, physical assessment, and diagnostic findings 
• Create high-quality cost-effective interventions and treatment plans 
• Conduct patient education and answering questions to promote health 
• Minimizing hospitalizations by managing overall health 
• Referral to appropriate specialties when needed 
• VA Video Connect (VVC) telehealth for patients to ensure continuity of care 
• Telehealth visits reaching patients who have difficulty coming to the clinic 
• Resource to all the PACT Teams and staff 


Float NP

Wade's Care First NP Services
•	Telehealth Practice 
•	Providing treatment for acute to chronic conditions
•	Primary Care 
•	Depression and Anxiety
•	ADHD
•	Medical Weight loss
•	Men’s Health
•	Same day visits 
•	Sick visits 
•	Works independently and autonomously  
•	Managing acute and chronic diseases  
•	Total holistic care of patients  
•	Preventative Care, screening at appropriate age 
•	Obtaining history and physical examination  
•	Ordering diagnostic testing and interpretation of lab tests  
•	Ordering correct medication therapy for acute and chronic diseases 
•	Developing an evidenced base care plan per differential diagnosis, physical assessment, and diagnostic findings 
•	Create high-quality cost-effective interventions and treatment plans 
•	Conduct patient education and answering questions to promote health 
•	Minimizing hospitalizations by managing overall health 
•	Referral to appropriate specialties when needed 

9/2024- present
ProactiveMD Contracted Primary Care NP