Nurse

Job Title

Registered Nurse

Duties

Delivers fundamental knowledge-based care to assigned clients while developing technical skills. Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates care based on Mental Health (MH) specific components. Assumes responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient education, self-management, and customer satisfaction throughout the MH continuum of care. Follows procedures per established policies and guidelines. Influences care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team. The Registered Nurse is accountable for providing psychosocial rehabilitation services to seriously mentally ill Veterans. Responsible and accountable for all elements of the nursing process when providing and/or supervising direct patient care. Administers medications and procedures per established policies and guidelines. Executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex client care. This position requires driving.

Major Duties:

• Leads the provision of nursing care to patients with complex care needs utilizing the nursing process in alignment with the ANA standards of nursing practice.
• Applies clinical knowledge/judgement to lead staff involvement in planning, decision making, and evaluation outcomes within the immediate practice setting.
• Effectively functions as a leader, with demonstrated outcomes, for the immediate practice setting.
• Improves Veteran/patient driven care by resolving experience issues such as coordination of care, timeliness or process issues, common themes of dissatisfaction, or environment of care concerns for the immediate practice setting.
• Applies patient, family and caregiver knowledge, Values and beliefs into care delivery without judgement or discrimination.
• Serves as a resource for patients, caregivers, and staff to address and resolve ethical issues in the immediate practice setting.
• Leads the implementation of high reliability principles and I CARE vales to increase consistency of care delivered and improve patient outcomes.
• Ensure appropriate delegation/completion of clinic task assignments to optimize safe clinical environment for staff, patients and visitors.
• Ensure clean and orderly exam rooms, procedural suites and supply rooms are fully stocked by end of each day
• Maintaining inventory/supply list, ensuring supply and sterile instrument sufficiency.
• Ensure supply and sterile instrumentation are appropriately stored and rotated in accordance with expiration dates and compliance standards.
• Ensure compliance and documentation of environmental temperature/humidity monitoring compliance of all refrigerators, consumables supply, re-usable, &/or loaned supply items &/or devices.

Preferred Experience

• Nurse with BSN or MSN
• Mental Health experience
• Home Health experience
• BLS certified

VA Offers a Comprehensive Total Rewards Package

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, 08:00am - 16:30pm

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

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