Registered Nurse, Emergency Department

Emergency Department Registered Nurse

The Emergency Department Registered Nurse (ED RN) practice includes the roles of direct care provider, educator, administrator, researcher, consultant, leader, and advocate. Emergency nursing practice is independent and collaborative. It ranges from basic nursing care to stabilization, resuscitation, and life-support measures. Major duties include, but are not limited to:

• Providing competent, evidence-based care to assigned patients.
• Providing urgent and emergent care to patients with acute and/or chronic medical, surgical, and psychiatric conditions.
• Assessing patients by collecting pertinent data or information, including the triage of patients based on the five-level triage system to prioritize patients that require more immediate care to determine diagnoses, problems, or other concerns.
• Implementing care coordination, health teaching, and health promotion.
• Evaluating the progress toward achieving the expected goal and outcomes, and adjusts the plans as necessary.

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: 6:30am-7:00pm or 6:30pm-7:00am, Shift to be determined at selection, Rotating days off

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized