RN Staff - Spinal Cord Injury

RN Staff Position

This RN Staff position is in the Spinal Cord Injury service at the VA Boston Healthcare System, located at the Boston, MA location. This position is full-time at 40 hours per week. Duties include but are not limited to:

• Works with others in the SCI PACT team to address health promotion, disease prevention, and primary care needs of Veterans with SCI/D
• Completes comprehensive skin, wound, and ostomy assessments and recommends appropriate prevention and/or treatment interventions
• Provides timely and accurate documentation of skin and wound issues using Veterans Affairs (VA) approved enterprise standardized electronic health record (EHR) system.
• Assess, plans, implements, and evaluates care based on skin and wound assessment findings.
• Demonstrates proficiency in performing the full scope of wound assessment and management including measurement, staging of pressure injuries, cleansing, application compression therapy, and selection and application of wound care treatments and therapies.
• Treatment recommendation may include wound dressings, advanced therapies, specialty mattresses, innovative technology (mobile application, 3D imaging, TeleWound, etc.) and other resources.
• Responsible and accountable for individual nursing practice and determines the appropriate delegation of tasks consistent with the nurse's obligation to provide optimal care. The focus is on individual growth and development in practice with increased levels of self-direction.
• Brings principles and theory with limited application of critical thinking skills.
• Up to 8hrs per week dedicated to the management of wounds and ostomy care within the VA Boston West Roxbury campus.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm

Compressed/Flexible: Not Available

Telework: May be available on an Ad-Hoc basis at supervisor's discretion

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

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Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not Authorized

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: A full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

Notifications:

• This position is in the Excepted Service
• Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50, (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held.
• Veterans' preference does not apply for internal or other current permanent Federal agency employees.

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