Critical Care Registered Nurse - Acute Care

Job Title

STAT/Acute Care Registered Nurse

Job Description

The STAT/Acute Care Registered Nurse provides expert, flexible, and rapid-response care for Veterans experiencing complex or life-threatening conditions. This RN demonstrates leadership, clinical expertise, and professional accountability by collaborating with interdisciplinary teams, evaluating clinical performance, and contributing to quality improvement initiatives. The position requires a strong critical-care background and the ability to manage dynamic patient care situations across varied inpatient settings.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Performs position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex patient care.
• Collaborates in the development, implementation, evaluation, and revision of policies, procedures, and/or guidelines.
• Demonstrates performance and leadership that is broad enough to improve the care for acutely/critically ill patients who are at high risk for actual or potential life threatening health problems, regardless of the setting for nursing care.
• Provides peers with formal or informal constructive feedback for improvement.
• Supports colleagues and other nurses through knowledge sharing to provide safe, quality nursing care.
• Fosters a safe and supportive environment conducive to the professional development of health care professionals.
• Evaluates outcomes of evidence-based decisions and practice changes for individuals, groups, and populations.
• This nurse has vast experience and knowledge with the situations in which they are ultimately expected to perform, skillfully integrating theoretical concepts, strong critical thinking skills, and exhibits an expert technically skilled practice.
• Provides high intensity care and vigilance, is considered an expert in the field of nursing and serves as a resource and mentor to others.
• Contributes professional nursing perspective in discussions with the interdisciplinary team.
• Serves as a change agent and collaborates with other services to produce optimal outcomes.
• Exudes leadership as an ICU Nurse and educates and shares knowledge with the whole hospital institution.
• Collaborates with team members and hospital leaders in the evaluation of nursing protocols and procedures.
• Responsible for participating in activities supporting nursing excellence, quality improvement and unit based and/or organizational level Shared Governance councils.
• Accountable for utilizing clinical expertise and evidence-based practice to find innovative approaches to address concerns to improve the quality care provided to our veterans.

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: 1930-0800 Compressed/Flexible: Yes Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

US Department of Veterans Affairs