RN- Emergency Department

Dayton VA Medical Center Nursing Position

Small Town Charm, Big City Amenities The Community - Dayton Ohio Dayton, city, seat (1803) of Montgomery county, southwestern Ohio, U.S., located 54 miles (87 km) northeast of Cincinnati, on a low floodplain of the Great Miami River, at the confluence of the Stillwater and Mad rivers and Wolf Creek. It is the heart of a metropolitan area that includes the cities of Kettering, Miamisburg, Xenia, Fairborn, Oakwood, Centerville, Beavercreek, and Vandalia.

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Dayton VA Medical Center The Dayton VA Medical Center has a proud heritage of providing high quality health care since 1867 to those who have served our country. We are a state of the art teaching facility serving Veterans more than 150 years. With the latest technological innovations and highly trained staff, the Dayton VA Medical Center is health care of today

Facility Facts and Specifics The Dayton VA Medical Center provides comprehensive health care, which includes Acute, Community Living Center, and Residential Care. The ambulatory care program is provided through a variety of clinics including a primary care program designed to assure that we offer an atmosphere of friendly, personal and individualized patient care. Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) are located in Lima, Middletown, and Springfield, Ohio along with Richmond, Indiana. The CBOCs offer a complete array of diagnostic, rehabilitative, and therapeutic programs and services using state of the art technology to treat the total patient and ensure the Veteran continuity of care. The Medical Center also has sharing agreements with Wright Patterson Air Force Base and eleven (11) community hospitals.

Requirements

• Providing professional nursing care principles, practices and procedures required to assess needs of patients;
• Knowledge of pharmaceuticals, their desired effects, side effects, and complications of their use; recognizing adverse signs and symptoms which are not always apparent and to react promptly in emergency situations including the implementation of life saving procedures;
• Providing counseling, guidance and health instruction to patients; and
• Identifying disease entities in order to recognize complications and therapeutic interventions required.
• Provide professional nursing duties according to established professional nursing principles, practices, and procedures in an ICU setting, assessing patient's physical, emotional, spiritual and socio-cultural needs;
• Demonstrate skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patient served; provides preoperative and post-operative nursing care to patients.

Qualifications

• Candidates must possess a bachelor's degree in Nursing and eligibility under the Superior Academic Achievement provision -OR- Possess of a bachelor's degree in Nursing and at least one full year of professional nursing experience-OR- Possess a diploma or associate degree in professional nursing
• Must possess a current, valid, unrestricted nursing license in a state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a Territory of the United States.
• Must have a minimum of 24 months experience in an emergency department environment during the last 36 months
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) as approved by the American Heart Association (AHA) is mandatory for all specialties.
• Evidence of current immunizations is required