Registered Nurse - Nursing Officer of the Day

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The duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Incorporate position responsibilities and creative approaches to the management of patient care.
• Communicate the ability to organize the delivery of care to assure continuity of care for practice, including access to care and discharge planning.
• Communicate clinical knowledge and judgement to promote self-involvement in planning, decision-making, and evaluating outcomes.
• Possess knowledge of basic clinical practice to the assigned roles and responsibilities.
• Aware of evidence-based practices to improve outcomes for patients and/or departmental processes.
• Collaborate with staff as a team member to incorporate professional standards of care, scientific evidence, and practice to evaluate programs and/or service activities.
• Seek knowledge in leadership at the unit level that is sustainable, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex situations.
• Assume authority, responsibility, and accountability for managing and directing employees, staffing units, and allocating resources as necessary during weekends, holidays, after-hours tours during the absence of nursing management/leadership.
• Responsible for rounding and is a consultant to providers.
• Collaborate with the Administrative Officer of the Day (AOD) and other members of the interdisciplinary team as needed for decisions related to on-going patient care and actions taken in emergency situations and disasters.
• Provide programmatic outcomes to nursing leadership to assist with improving organizational processes and the delivery of patient care.
• Responsible for providing competent, evidence-based care to assigned patients.
• Delegate and supervise basic nursing care of licensed practical nurses and unlicensed assistive personnel.
• Assist in directing the provision of nursing education, orientation, competencies and provide quality improvement and outcomes utilization.
• Provide urgent and emergent care to patients with acute and/or chronic medical, surgical, and psychiatric conditions.
• Evaluate practice in and ongoing process, based on best evidence.
• Provide peers with informal constructive feedback for improvement.
• Foster a safe and supportive environment conducive to the professional development of healthcare professionals.
• Contribute professional nursing perspective in discussions with the interdisciplinary team.
• Partner with others to effect change and produce optimal outcomes.
• Support colleagues through knowledge sharing to provide safe, quality nursing care.
• Share educational findings, experiences, and ideas with peers.
• Question clinical practices for the purpose of providing evidence-based care.
• Participate in activities and strategies to sustain an evidence-based culture.
• Responsible and accountable for all elements of the nursing process when providing care.
• Collect pertinent date or information, including triage of patients based on the five-level triage system to prioritize patients that require more immediate care.
• Use the assessment data to determine diagnoses, problems, or other concerns.
• Identify expected outcomes to develop a collaborative and individualized plan for each patient.

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: Full-Time (Nights, Weekends, and Holidays)

Compressed/Flexible: Available

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized