Registered Nurse (Domiciliary Mental Health)

About the role

The VA Finger Lakes Healthcare System is seeking a highly qualified full-time Registered Nurse to join the Domiciliary Mental Health Team at the Bath VA Medical Center. The Outpatient Mental Health (MH) Registered Nurse (RN) provides patient-centered and recovery-oriented care and maintains self-awareness while caring for patients living with MH conditions. The RN fosters a safe and supportive environment conducive to the professional development of healthcare professionals.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for providing and leading the provision of competent evidence-based care to assigned patients.
• Assist in directing the provision of nursing education, orientation, competencies, and providing quality improvement and outcomes utilization consultation.
• Provides patient-centered and recovery-oriented care and maintains self-awareness while caring for patients living with substance use disorder and/or MH conditions.
• Facilitate shift report, warm hand-offs, and 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.
• Actively participates in MH interdisciplinary treatment team, patient safety and environment of care rounds, and responds to psychiatric and medical care needs and emergencies as directed.
• Reports safety concerns and documents nursing assessments, risk screens, nursing plan of care, patient safety rounds, and environment of care rounds according to facility policy.
• Maintains professional boundaries to protect patient vulnerabilities and act in the best interest of the patient.
• Fosters a safe and supportive environment conducive to the professional development of healthcare professionals.
• Supports colleagues through knowledge sharing to provide safe, quality nursing care.
• Questions clinical practices for the purpose of providing evidence-based care.
• Performs additional duties as assigned.

Requirements

• English Language Proficiency: proficient in basic written and spoken English (per 38 U.S.C. 7403(f)).
• Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate accrediting agency and accredited by ACEN or CCNE at the time the program was completed.
• Individuals attending a master's level bridge program in nursing who have completed coursework equivalent to a bachelor's level degree in Nursing may have opportunity to become registered as a nurse with a state licensing board prior to completion of the bridge program; upon achievement of a State license may be appointed on a temporary basis and later converted to a permanent appointment upon successful completion and graduation from the bridge program.
• Graduates of foreign schools of professional nursing: possession of a current, full, active, and unrestricted registration meets the requirement for graduation from an approved school of professional nursing to warrant appointment as a Nurse who has completed an associated degree/entry level Nursing education program; credit for foreign nursing education higher than associate degree/entry level requires a formal degree equivalency validation from a recognized equivalency evaluation accepted by VA such as International Consultants of Delaware (ICD).
• Current, full, active, and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a State, Territory or Commonwealth (i.e.,