Registered Nurse - Med/Surg

ICU Position at Long Beach VAMC

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The VA Long Beach Healthcare System is one of the most diversified health care systems in the VA. Located along the Southern California coast, the facility provides comprehensive inpatient, outpatient, and extended care programs. The medical center and its community clinics employ more than 2,200 full-time employees, and the VA Long Beach is the health care provider of choice for more than 50,000 Veterans. Active in both research and education, they partner with universities and education centers across Southern California to train a new generation of health care leaders.

ICU Responsibilities

• Providing professional nursing care principles, practices and procedures required to assess needs of patients.
• Knowledge of pharmaceuticals, their desired effects, and complications of their use; recognizing adverse signs and symptoms which are not always apparent and to reach promptly in emergency situations including the implementation of life-saving procedures.
• Provide counseling, guidance, and health instruction to patients; and-
• Identify disease entities in order to recognize complications and therapeutic interventions required.
• Provide professional nursing duties according to established professional nursing principles, practices, and procedures in a Med/Surg or PACU setting, assessing patient's physical, emotional, spiritual, and socio-cultural needs.
• Demonstrate skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patient; provide pre-operative nursing care to patients.

Qualifications

• Must have a bachelor's degree for nursing from an accredited program approved by either the Commission for Education in Nursing or the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.
• Must possess a current, valid, unrestricted nursing license in a state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a Territory of the United States.
• Must have a minimum of two years' experience within the last three years.
• Current BLS and ACLS certification as approved by the American Heart Association.

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