Registered Nurse - Emergency Room

Job Title

Registered Nurse (Nights) On The Emergency Room Team

The Buffalo VA Medical Center is seeking a qualified full-time Registered Nurse (Nights) on the Emergency Room Team. The Registered Nurse (RN) - Emergency Room is responsible for providing competent, evidence-based care to assigned patients, and will delegate and supervise basic nursing care of licensed practical nurses and unlicensed assistive personnel. The incumbent will assist in directing the provision of nursing education, orientation, competencies and providing quality improvement and outcomes utilization. He/she provides urgent and emergent care to patients with acute and/or chronic medical, surgical, and psychiatric conditions with nursing care ranges from basic nursing care to stabilization, resuscitation, and life-support measures. The Registered Nurse - Emergency Room practice includes the roles of direct care provider, educator, administrator, researcher, consultant, leader, advocate, and will evaluate practice in an ongoing process, based on best evidence. He/she provides peers with informal constructive feedback for improvement, and fosters a safe and supportive environment conducive to the professional development of healthcare professionals, while simultaneously contributing professional nursing perspective in discussions with the interdisciplinary team. The incumbent will partner with others to effect change and produce optimal outcomes, and support colleagues through knowledge sharing to provide safe, quality nursing care by sharing educational findings, experiences, and ideas with peers. He/she will question clinical practices for the purpose of providing evidence-based care, and participate in activities and strategies to sustain an evidence-based-practice culture. Emergency room nursing practice is independent and collaborative.

Work Schedule: Full-Time. 12-hour night tour of duty (6:00 PM - 6:30 AM) to include weekends and holidays

Compressed/Flexible: Authorized

Telework: Not Authorized

Virtual: This is not a virtual position

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact View email address on click.appcast.io, the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance. Learn more

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package VA Nurse Total Rewards that includes:

• 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