Registered Nurse - Medical Intensive Care/Progressive Care

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Major duties include, but are not limited to:

• Leading and organizing delivery of care to assure continuity of care and peer accountability for practice, including access to care and discharge planning.
• Using advanced clinical knowledge judgment to promote staff involvement in planning, decision-making, and evaluating outcomes.
• Functioning as an expert in clinical practice and/or areas related to the assigned roles and responsibilities.
• Systematically evaluating current practice, and formulating outcomes for groups of practices and/or organizational processes within an area of expertise.
• Guiding, developing, and supporting staff from a leadership perspective.
• Using professional standards of care scientific evidence, and practice to evaluate programs and/or service activities.
• Delivering and improving holistic care through collaboration strategies with others to provide comprehensive nursing care to patients assigned to the assigned unit where conditions are usually of a critical nature.
• Possesses the clinical foundation on which the cognitive and practical expertise necessary to care for diverse and complex critical care disease processes can be constructed. He/she is proficient in his/her understanding of the basic pathophysiological concepts, treatments, and expected outcomes associated with the critical care environment.
• Applies the nursing process throughout physiological and psychosocial assessments, which assists in the organizing care interventions related to clinical acuity and needs.
• Demonstrates the highest levels of professional standards and ethical behaviors with respect to interpersonal relations, teamwork, and personal responsibility and compliance with institutional protocols and practices.
• Demonstrates proficiency in practice based on conscious and deliberate planning and can be called upon to respond to facility wide code responses (e.g. code blue).
• Demonstrates clinical competence and leadership in delivering and improving holistic care through collaborative strategies with others. such as patients, their family members/significant others and members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Self-directed in goal setting and in the management of complex patient situations utilizing the nurse process.
• Demonstrates the ability to identify and issue, analyze it, develop and implement interventions.
• Completes initial assessments and reassessments of patient condition and response to treatment. Initiates follow-up as recommended. while administering the prescribed therapies using appropriate judgement; evaluation of therapies is pertinent and timely.
• Focus on problems, initiate referrals to other disciplines and/or services as appropriate.
• Accurately documents in the medical record patient findings, assessments, and care provided.
• Effectively functions independently as the Charge Nurse in an assignment managing the care of a group of patients and caregivers.
• Demonstrates and/or verbalizes correct responses to emergencies as well as initiates effective action in emergencies.
• Demonstrates understanding of infection control precautions appropriate for the patient population.
• Participates/ leads unit-based shared governance, performance improvement and safety initiatives.
• Pursue an education plan to maintain/ improve knowledge in critical care nursing.

Benefits

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards

Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards

Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

Work Schedule: 7:00pm - 7:30am, to include weekends, and holidays. Schedule will de determined by Supervisor.

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

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Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

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