Registered Nurse - Surgical Intensive Care/ Stepdown Unit

Job Title

Registered Nurse - Surgical Intensive Care/ Stepdown Unit

Duties

The Registered Nurse - Surgical Intensive Care/ Stepdown Unit demonstrates leadership in 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. They will provide care to a wide range of post-surgical patients who are subsequently requiring critical care treatment for any number of reasons. Major duties include, but are not limited to:

• Understanding of the basic pathophysiological concepts, treatments, and expected outcomes associated with the critical care environment.
• Apply the nursing process throughout physiological and psychosocial assessments, which assists in the organizing care interventions related to clinical acuity and needs.
• Demonstrate proficiency in practice based on conscious and deliberate planning and can be called upon to response to facility wide code responses (e.g. code blue).
• Demonstrate the ability to identify an issue, analyze it, develop and implement interventions.
• Complete initial assessments and reassessments of patient condition and response to treatment.
• Initiate follow-up as recommended while administering the prescribed therapies using appropriate judgment; evaluation of therapies is pertinent and timely.
• All other duties as assigned, pertaining to this occupation, to meet the needs of the Agency, Department, Facility, and/or Service.

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: Full-Time. Various; that may include: both 8 and 12 hour shifts, days, nights, weekends, and holidays. Schedule will ultimately be determined by Supervisor and/or needs of the Facility.

Telework: Ad-hoc telework may be approved in accordance with agency policy.

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized.