Nurse (Clinical/Floating) GS-0610-11

Responsibilities

Provide independent clinical nursing care for all patients from neonates/pediatric through geriatric.
Determines and provides patients and families in areas requiring support to facilitate special and innovative approaches.
Delegates, oversees, and directs work to personnel of lower-level positions.
Provides comprehensive age-appropriate nursing care to medical, post-surgical, patients based on physician’s medical care plan.
Provides an advanced level of specialized nursing care to adult critically ill and injured patients.
Performs triage and provides nursing care to patients arriving in critical condition.
Provides comprehensive nursing support to all patients in the Perioperative Center.
Performs independent, comprehensive telephone and clinical triaging.

Qualifications

• Basic Requirement: A graduate or higher-level degree, bachelor's degree, associate degree, or diploma from an accredited professional nursing educational program is required. This education must have been accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs, Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education, or an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education at the time the degree was obtained. (Note: You must attach a copy of your transcripts.)
• Licensure: A current, active, full, and unrestricted license or registration as a professional nurse from a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States; and you must have passed the National Council Licensure Examination.
• Exemption: You are exempt from the basic requirements above if you are a current federal employee occupying a position in the 0610 occupational series and have been continuously employed in this occupational series since September 27, 2017, or before. Applicants claiming this exemption must meet the requirement below. Note: You will be required to provide appropriate documentation to the respective Human Resources Office to validate your status.
• Education/Experience: A diploma, associate degree, or bachelor's degree in Nursing from a professional nursing program and possession of at least one full year of professional in patient nursing experience (equivalent to the GS-09 grade level or above) which includes performing float and staff nursing care and medical treatment services impacting patients varying from neonates/pediatric through geriatric. (Note: You must attach a copy of your transcripts.)
• OR Education: A PhD or equivalent doctoral degree from a professional nursing educational program or related medical science field or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education from a professional nursing program.
• Exemption: You are exempt from the qualification requirements above if you are a current federal employee occupying a position in the 0610 occupational series and have been continuously employed in this occupational series since September 27, 2017, or before. Applicants claiming this exemption must meet one of the requirements below. Note: You will be required to provide appropriate documentation to the respective Human Resources Office to validate your status.

Pay

Up to - $115,340 per year

Schedule

N/A

Benefits

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