Registered Nurse

Job Title

Registered Nurse in the Community Living Center in Extended Care Service

Job Description

The Battle Creek VA Medical Center is recruiting for a Registered Nurse in the Community Living Center in Extended Care Service. The Extended Care Service Community Living Center Staff Nurse is a Professional Nurse with broad-based clinical knowledge enabling him/her to effectively implement health promotion, disease prevention, and management for adult or older adult residents requiring skilled Nursing interventions in a long term care setting.

CLC Staff Nurses typically provide care for residents with complex, mixed chronic medical and/or psychiatric conditions, residents with cognitive impairments, and residents who are terminally ill.

The CLC Staff Nurse utilizes the Nursing process when assessing, planning, implementing, evaluating, and documenting Nursing care provided.

He/she works collaboratively with the interdisciplinary team when planning and providing care to Nursing Home residents and their families.

The Staff Nurse functions independently as a charge Nurse on the unit, organizing and delegating care activities to other RNs, LPNs, and NAs and providing feedback to the Nurse Manager regarding the practice of others in order to improve care. He/she may either direct the care of other Staff members or provide direct patient care depending on the needs of the unit.

The CLC Staff Nurse participates in Quality Improvement activities in the CLC and/or Medical Center with the objective of improving patient care outcomes.

He/she takes an active role in identifying his/her own educational needs and continually updating clinical skills.

Community Living Center Units: 83-1 Palliative Care 84-1 Long Term/Respite Care/Rehabilitation 84-2 Dementia

Benefits

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: Sunday through Saturday, 7:00PM to 7:30AM 80 hours per pay period (2 weeks). Hours may be rotated or extended based on the needs of the Medical Center and our Veterans.

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