Registered Nurse-Float Pool

Job Title

Duties

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Responsible and accountable for individual nursing practice and determines the appropriate delegation of tasks consistent with the nurse's obligation to provide optimal care.
• Responsible for maintaining competencies and required job duties such as reading email, attending in-services, and actively participating in staff meetings.
• Completes mandatory trainings.
• Safely and effectively uses patient care equipment.
• Correctly and safely performs nursing procedures.
• Recognizes overt abnormal signs and symptoms and/or changes in patients' condition and responds appropriately.
• Implements physician's/provider's orders in a timely and complete manner.
• Implements nursing interventions/orders in a timely and complete manner.
• Formulates a plan of care based on nursing assessments, using the nursing process, based on the ANA Standards of Nursing.
• Completes initial assessment of patient condition and response to treatment and initiates follow-up as needed.
• Includes the patient and family/significant other in developing the initial plan of care and establishing goals.
• Updates plan of care.
• Assesses patient's learning needs, learning preference and readiness to learn.
• Develops and implements a plan to meet learning needs, instructing patients and families in basic health teaching and discharge planning.
• Evaluates and documents patient response to interventions and progress towards attainment of goals and expected outcomes.
• Revises plan of care according to evaluations of patient's responses and outcomes.
• Uses the Electronic Health Record (EHR) software per policy.
• Works as a team with NAs and LPNs and delegates follows up on tasks.
• Delivers medications using BCMA.
• Adheres to Fall Prevention protocols.
• Adheres to one-to-one and close nurse observation protocols.
• Provides complex wound care.
• Administers blood products as ordered.
• Administers IV Fluids, TPN, Lipids, PCA and manages multiple IV medications while checking compatibility.
• Completes cardiac telemetry monitoring training and passes exam with 80% or greater within first 6 months of working on an Acute Care unit.
• Monitors telemetry and responds to rhythm changes timely.
• Adheres to remote telemetry procedures and policies.
• Provides coverage to telemetry monitoring, as assigned.
• Serves as primary staffing resource to COVID unit when operating, to include coverage of charge nurse duties, as assigned.

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, 7:00pm-8:00am / 6- 12 hours shifts and one 8 hour shift

Compressed/Flexible: Authorized

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

US Department of Veterans Affairs