Registered Nurse (Patient Aligned Care Team)

Job Title

A Career At VA Salt Lake City Health Care System Can Take You Places

Duties

This is an OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCEMENT. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis. Initial review will be conducted on a weekly basis thereafter. Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Provide a full range of nursing care to Veterans/Patients, including complex care needs using the nursing process.
• Implements the PACT concept of right person, right place, right time that ensures access to care and supports staff functioning at the top of their scope.
• Management of Veteran chronic disease conditions through ongoing assessment of conditions and recognizing changes in condition and responding with timely and correct interventions.
• Establishes plan of care and goals with Veteran Patient after assessing learning needs, learning preferences, readiness to learn and modifies modalities of teaching when needed.
• Initiates referrals to other disciplines and services as appropriate and allowed by current Nursing Protocols.
• Offers preventative health measures to Veterans to include Whole Health modalities.
• Applies all modalities of care available to deliver best practice to panel.
• Ensures that documentation of care is complete, accurate, consistent, concise, and timely. Encounters will be coded appropriately and timely. Documentation will be alerted to other team members as needed. Recommend use of SOAP/SBAR models for documentation.
• Implements appropriate notification processes for problematic events involving patient, family, and staff along with appropriate documentation as needed.
• Uses tools and reports to provide proactive management of Veterans with chronic disease or at high risk.
• Promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety and rights of the patient.
• Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own nursing judgments and actions.
• Collaboration with healthcare consumer and other key stakeholders in the conduct of nursing practice.
• Develops and implements a plan to meet learning needs, instructing patients and families in basic health teaching.
• Ensures application of institutional policy to protect information from unauthorized release, loss, alteration, or deletion.
• Contributes to an environment of a High Reliability Organization with a culture of safety founded on a systems approach to developing health care solutions based on prevention, not punishment, with collective mindfulness.
• Responsible for environment of care (EOC) issues when on duty.
• Ensures, clean, safe environment.
• Labels all Medications
• Verifies medication refrigerator and nutrition refrigerator temperatures are within acceptable range, and cleaning logs are checked and recorded per policy.
• Confirms that emergency equipment (i.e., crash cart) is checked daily per policy and the log completed.
• Ensures other EOC issues, such as items on the PCS EOC Checklist, are enforced.
• Completes orientation, unit-based in-services, and mandatory educational activities in a self-directed manner.
• Participates in unit based educational activities and VA continuing education requirements to increase clinical and professional knowledge.
• Reads policies and other messages as directed.
• Collaborates with peers in completing unit workload efficiently.
• Participates in unit-based performance improvement activities to improve patient care.
• Makes changes in own practice in response to performance improvement findings.
• Reviews and shares current literature in relation to practice with co-workers.
• Participates in meeting VA Performance Measures to include AES.

Benefits

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: Monday- Friday, 7:00am-5:00pm

Telework: This position is authorized for telework - situational (ad hoc) and has NOT been authorized as virtual or remote.

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized