Registered Nurse (Endoscopy Staff)

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Job Description

Help Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Provides conscious sedation.
• Provides patient care, care coordination, health promotion, health education and coaching on wellness, disease prevention, and chronic care management
• May function in several roles to include, pre-procedure assessments, post procedural recovery, and assisting physicians during procedures
• Assesses the patients physical and mental status prior to procedures, educates on procedural and post-procedural care, and documents responses to interventions, findings, and reports any changes.
• Establishes a therapeutic relationship, allowing the patient to attain, maintain or regain optimal function through assessment and treatment.
• Engages patients, families, and other caregivers to incorporate knowledge, values, and beliefs into care planning without judgement or discrimination.
• Provides competent, evidence-based procedural care to assigned patients and oversight of licensed vocational nurses and health/nursing assistants, as appropriate to the procedural setting
• Assumes responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient transition through the continuum of patient care, patient and family education, patient self-management after discharge, and supporting factors that impact customer satisfaction.
• Collaborates in the development, implementation, evaluation, and revision of policies, procedures, and/or guidelines.

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: 08:30 a.m. - 05:00 p.m. Monday - Friday

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Available

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Available

US Department of Veterans Affairs