Registered Nurse (Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program)

Major Duties

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

• Execute position responsibilities to improve patient and organizational outcomes.
• Execute their position duties by providing patient-centered and recovery-oriented care and maintain self-awareness while caring for patients living with substance use disorder and/or mental health conditions.
• Facilitate shift reports, warm hand-offs, and develop content as well as facilitate nurse-led psychoeducational groups.
• Use therapeutic communication techniques, practice de-escalation techniques, utilize recovery-oriented language, and provide oversight of the patient safe medication management program.
• Demonstrate the ability to work with and lead mental health interdisciplinary teams and work collaboratively with others as well as independently.
• Promote critical thinking, participate in patient safety and environment of care rounds, direct team response to psychiatric and medical care needs and emergencies, report safety concerns, and assist and/or direct safety concern resolution.
• Document nursing assessments, risk screens, measurement-based care tools, nursing plan of care, patient safety rounds, and environment of care rounds according to facility policy.
• Maintain professional boundaries to protect patient vulnerabilities and act in the best interest of the patient.
• Provide peers with formal and informal constructive feedback for improvement.
• Support colleagues and other nurses through knowledge sharing to provide safe, quality nursing care.
• Foster a safe and supportive environment conducive to the professional development of health care professionals.

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: 7:30 PM - 8:00 AM or 7:30 AM - 8:00 PM

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