Registered Nurse (Patient Aligned Care Team)

Job Title

VA Salt Lake City Health Care System offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards

Duties

Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Management of Veteran chronic disease conditions through ongoing assessment of conditions and recognizing changes in condition and responding with timely and correct interventions.
• Establishes plan of care and goals with Veteran Patient after assessing learning needs, learning preferences, readiness to learn and modifies modalities of teaching when needed.
• Initiates referrals to other disciplines and services as appropriate and allowed by current Nursing Protocols.
• Offers preventative health measures to Veterans to include Whole Health modalities.
• Ensures that documentation of care is complete, accurate, consistent, concise, and timely. Encounters will be coded appropriately and timely. Documentation will be alerted to other team members as needed. Recommend use of SOAP/SBAR models for documentation.
• Implements appropriate notification processes for problematic events involving patient, family, and staff along with appropriate documentation as needed.
• Utilizes tools and reports to provide proactive management of Veterans with chronic disease or at high risk.
• Promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety and rights of the patient.
• Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own nursing judgments and actions.
• Collaboration with healthcare consumer and other key stakeholders in the conduct of nursing practice.
• Develops and implements a plan to meet learning needs, instructing patients and families in basic health teaching.
• Ensures application of institutional policy to protect information from unauthorized release, loss, alteration, or deletion.
• Maintains competency on PPE use/donning and doffing.
• Complies with safety rules and regulations for safe job performance and fire protection. Practices safe body mechanics, uses mechanical devices, and/or requests help when needed in moving, lifting, or turning patients to prevent injury to patient, self, or others. Promptly reports all accidents to supervisor and notifies supervisor promptly of unsafe or unhealthy environmental situations/conditions. Corrects safety hazards promptly. Puts broken equipment out of service immediately, tags it as such and follows-through for appropriate disposition of the broken equipment.
• Contributes to an environment of a High Reliability Organization with a culture of safety founded on a systems approach to developing health care solutions based on prevention, not punishment, with collective mindfulness.
• Responsible for environment of care (EOC) issues when on duty. Ensures, clean, safe environment.
• Labels All Medications.
• Verifies medication refrigerator and nutrition refrigerator temperatures are within acceptable range, and cleaning logs are checked and recorded per policy.
• Confirms that emergency equipment (i.e., crash cart) is checked daily per policy and the log completed.
• Ensures other EOC issues, such as items on the PCS EOC Checklist, are enforced.
• Completes orientation, unit-based in-services, and mandatory educational activities in a self-directed manner.
• Collaborates with peers in completing unit workload efficiently.
• Participates in unit-based performance improvement activities to improve patient care.
• Makes changes in own practice in response to performance improvement findings.
• Reviews and shares current literature in relation to practice with co-workers.
• Participates in meeting VA Performance Measures to include AES.
• Completes and demonstrates Basic Life Support (BLS) as required.
• Primary Care RN Care Managers will be educated in the role of case management skills that allow them to implement Chronic Disease Management for Veterans within their PACT team. In addition, they will also receive training for CCICM, Care Coordination Integrated Case Management, in preparation for Veterans on their PACT teams who need individualized management to better meet their needs. It is expected that they will also collaborate with other CCICM team members for appropriate care coordination across other service lines.

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

8:00am- 4:30pm, M-F

Telework

Not Available

Virtual

This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives

Not Authorized