Registered Nurse- Med/ Surg

Job Title

Nursing Position

Duties

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Major duties and responsibilities of the position:

• Deliver fundamental knowledge-based care to assigned clients while developing technical skills.
• Demonstrate integration of biopsychosocial concepts, cognitive skills, and technically competent practice while providing care to clients.
• Demonstrate proficiency in practice based on conscious and deliberate planning. Self-directed in goal setting for managing complex client situations.
• Responsible and accountable for all elements of the nursing process when providing and/or supervising direct patient care.
• Influences care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Execute position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex client care.
• Responsible and accountable for individual nursing practice and determines the appropriate delegation of tasks consistent with the nurse's obligation to provide optimal care.
• Ability to formulate a plan of care based on nursing assessments.
• Seek guidance in how to improve care provided to patients and families.
• Delegate elements of care to the appropriate individual based upon assessed needs, condition, and safety of the patient.
• Bring principles and theory with limited application of critical thinking skills.
• Provide competent, evidence-based care to assigned patients with oversight of licensed vocational nurses/nursing assistants as appropriate to the setting.
• Assist in directing the provision of nursing education, orientation, competencies and providing quality improvement and outcomes utilization.
• Partner with the patient, family, and interdisciplinary team to promote effective and safe transitions across the health care continuum.
• Integrate knowledge, skills, abilities, and judgment and is self-directed in goal setting for managing complex situations.
• Validate understanding of the rationale for care processes and decisions.
• Question clinical practices for the purpose of providing evidence-based care.
• Demonstrate competence in practice and decision-making, deliberate planning, and critical thinking skills.
• Demonstrate leadership in delivering and improving holistic care through collaborative strategies with others.
• Provide peers with informal constructive feedback for improvement.
• Foster a safe and supportive environment conducive to the professional development of healthcare professionals.
• Contribute professional nursing perspective in discussions with the interdisciplinary team.
• Collaborate in the development, implementation, evaluation, and revision of policies, procedures, and/or guidelines.
• Demonstrate performance and leadership that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients.
• Evaluate outcomes of evidence-based decisions and practice changes for individuals, groups, and populations.
• Responsible for the documented outcomes at the program or service level.

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. Six 12-hour and one 8-hour shift per pay period. Tours include Days/ Nights / Weekends / Holidays, and are subject to change based on the needs of the health care system.

Telework: Not Available.

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized.

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized.