Registered Nurse (Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program)

Domiciliary RN Position Duties

The domiciliary RN executes their position duties by providing patient-centered and recovery-oriented care and maintaining self-awareness while caring for patients living with substance use disorder and/or MH conditions. Duties and responsibilities for the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Facilitates shift reports, warm hand-offs, and develops content.
2. Facilitates nurse-led psychoeducational groups.
3. Utilizes therapeutic communication techniques, practices de-escalation techniques, utilizes recovery-oriented language, and provides oversight of the patient safe medication management program.
4. Ability to work with and lead MH interdisciplinary teams.
5. Promote critical thinking.
6. Participates in patient safety and environment of care rounds.
7. Directs team response to psychiatric and medical care needs and emergencies.
8. Reports safety concerns and assists and/or directs safety concern resolution.
9. Documents nursing assessments, risk screens, measurement-based care tools, nursing plan of care, patient safety rounds, and environment of care rounds.
10. Maintains professional boundaries to protect patient vulnerabilities and act in the best interest of the patient.
11. Provides peers with formal or informal constructive feedback for improvement.

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: Shiftwork

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized