Registered Nurse (Ambulatory Surgery)

About the role

The Salem Veterans Medical Center is seeking a Registered Nurse for the Ambulatory Surgery Unit. The role involves responsible and accountable care for all elements of the nursing process.

Responsibilities

• Delivers fundamental knowledge-based care to assigned clients while developing technical competencies.
• Provides pre-operative/procedural care, including the nursing assessment of patients, consent, and H&P validations.
• Starting of intravenous fluids including venipuncture, assisting with peripheral nerve blocks.
• Affirming all lab work and other pre-operative/procedural testing is completed and communicated to team members.
• Confirms surgical sites are prepared and marked, and the administration of medications as ordered.
• Provides clear and concise preoperative teaching and reviews discharge instructions to patients and families with written and verbal communication.
• Maintains monitoring of post-operative patient’s level of consciousness after the recovery of anesthesia/sedation.
• Observes signs of side effects of post-residual anesthesia medications.

Requirements

• Basic Requirements: English Language Proficiency, Graduate of a school of professional nursing, Current full active and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a State, Territory or Commonwealth of the United States, or the District of Columbia.
• Dimension Requirements: Practice, Veteran/Patient Driven Care, Leadership, Professional Development and Evidence-Based Practice/Research.

Qualifications

• Basic Education Requirements: Associate Degree (ADN) or Diploma in Nursing, or Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
• Specialized Experience: 1 year of specialized nursing experience equivalent to Nurse I - Level 1; or a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) with no additional professional nursing experience required.
• Master's Degree: Master's degree in nursing (MSN), or a Master's degree in a related field with a BSN and no additional professional nursing experience.
• Doctoral Degree: Doctoral degree in Nursing, or a Doctoral degree in a related field with a BSN and no additional professional nursing experience.

Skills

• Endoscopy Experience
• Sedation Experience
• ICU Experience

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Regular salary increases
• Potential for performance awards
• 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
• Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting)
• 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)
• Comprehensive total rewards package

Pay

Competitive salary - regular salary increases - potential for performance awards

Schedule

6:00am-4:30pm/7:30am-6:00pm (Various as determined by supervisor)

Work Location

6:00am-4:30pm/7:30am-6:00pm (Various as determined by supervisor)

Telework

Not Available

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives

Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS)

Not Authorized

PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO)

Not Authorized