Registered Nurse- Inpatient 6 North

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for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must only include sections when posting has real specific content. Avoid filler. We need to parse content: - Summary: "The Inpatient Staff Registered Nurse is responsible and accountable for all elements of the nursing process when providing and/or supervising direct patient care. Assesses - plans - implements - and evaluates care based on age specific components. Assumes responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient education - self-management - and customer satisfaction throughout the continuum of care." That's about role/responsibilities. Could be About the role and Responsibilities. We can combine? Probably separate sections: About the role (summary) and Responsibilities (list of duties). The posting also has "Duties Functions or Scope of Assigned Duties:" with a list of duties (many bullet-like sentences). That can be Responsibilities. Qualifications: includes Basic Requirements (English proficiency, education, licensure, etc.) and Grade Determinations (scope education etc.) and Preferred Experience (Med-Surg). Also Physical Requirements. Skills: maybe not explicit; we could omit Skills if no specific list. Benefits: VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package with details: Pay, PTO, Retirement, Insurance, Licensure, Work Schedule, Telework, Relocation/Recruitment Incentives, PCS. So we can have Benefits section (maybe includes insurance, retirement, etc.) Pay section (competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards). Schedule section (work schedule details). Also maybe include "Work Schedule" as Schedule heading. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. We must not include boilerplate like EEO etc. Not present. We must not include duplicated lines. We need to preserve all substantive info. Let's extract: About the role: The Summary paragraph. Responsibilities: The list under "Duties Functions or Scope of Assigned Duties:" includes many items. We'll put each as

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. Skills: Not explicitly listed; maybe we can omit Skills section. Benefits: The VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: includes Pay, PTO, Retirement, Insurance, Licensure, Work Schedule, Telework, Relocation/Recruitment Incentives, PCS. But we have separate Pay and Schedule sections, so Benefits could include other benefits: PTO, Retirement, Insurance, Licensure, Telework, Relocation/Recruitment Incentives, PCS. However Licensure is also a requirement but also a benefit? It says "Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory" under VA offers... Might be considered a benefit? But it's also a requirement. We'll keep it under Benefits maybe. Pay: "Competitive salary - regular salary increases - potential for performance awards" Schedule: "Work Schedule: 7:30 pm to 8:00 am and one 8 hour 11:30 pm to 8:00 am per pay period - with Rotating Weekends and Holidays" Also Telework: Not Available, Virtual: not a virtual position. We need to ensure we don't include filler like "not specified". All content is specific. Now produce HTML:

About the role

The Inpatient Staff Registered Nurse is responsible and accountable for all elements of the nursing process when providing and/or supervising direct patient care. Assesses - plans - implements - and evaluates care based on age specific components. Assumes responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient education - self-management - and customer satisfaction throughout the continuum of care.

Responsibilities

• Administers medications and procedures per established policies and guidelines
• Influences care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team
• Executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership - experience - and creative approaches to management of complex client care
• Collaborates in the development - implementation - evaluation - and revision of policies - procedures - and/or guidelines
• Demonstrates performance and leadership that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients
• Provides peers with formal or informal constructive feedback for improvement
• Supports colleagues and other nurses through knowledge sharing to provide safe - quality nursing care
• Fosters a safe and supportive environment conducive to the professional development of health care professionals
• Evaluates outcomes of evidence-based decisions and practice changes for individuals - groups - and populations
• Responsible for the documented outcomes at the program or service level
• Program or service level outcomes must be broad and complex and can be demonstrated at any organizational level within a facility

Requirements

• English Language Proficiency: proficient in basic written and spoken English (38 U.S.C. 7403(f))
• Education: Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by appropriate accrediting agency and accredited by ACEN or CCNE; or master's level bridge program with coursework equivalent to bachelor's degree; or foreign school with current full active unrestricted registration plus degree equivalency validation if higher than associate degree.
• Licensure: Current full active unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a State, Territory, Commonwealth, or District of Columbia.
• Graduate Nurse Technician (GNT) Exception: Candidates meeting basic education but lacking licensure may be appointed as GNT on 120‑day temporary appointment (extendable up to two years) while pursuing licensure.
• Grandfathering Provision: VHA employees in 0610 series performing duties as described on 1/29/2024 are considered to have met qualification requirements.
• Physical Requirements: Ability to perform duties involving standing, walking, sitting, moderate lifting (up to 35 lbs), bending, grasping, kneeling, pushing/pulling, reaching within five feet or above shoulder height; adequate vision to distinguish basic colors; ability to hear at required level (hearing aids permitted); proper body mechanics during lifting.

Qualifications

• Grade Determinations – Scope, Education, and Dimension criteria (Practice, Veteran/Patient Driven Care, Leadership, Professional Development, Evidence‑Based Practice/Research) for each grade/level:
  • Nurse I – Level I: Associate Degree (ADN) or Diploma in Nursing; delivers fundamental knowledge‑based care.
  • Nurse I – Level II: ADN/Diploma + 1 year specialized nursing experience equivalent to Nurse I‑Level 1; OR BSN with no additional experience.
  • Nurse I – Level III: ADN/Diploma + 2 years professional nursing experience (one year equivalent to Nurse I‑Level 2); OR BSN + 1 year experience equivalent to Nurse I‑Level 2; OR MSN; OR Master’s in related field + BSN.
  • Nurse II: BSN + 2 years professional nursing equivalent to Nurse I‑Level 3; OR MSN + 1 year specialized experience equivalent to Nurse I‑Level 3; OR Master’s in related field + BSN + 1 year experience; OR Doctoral in Nursing; OR Doctoral in related field + BSN.
  • Nurse III: MSN + 2 years specialized nursing experience (one year equivalent to Nurse II and meeting dimension requirements); OR Master’s in related field + BSN + 2 years specialized experience (one year equivalent to Nurse II); OR Doctoral in Nursing + 1 year experience equivalent to Nurse II; OR Doctoral in related field + BSN + 1 year experience equivalent to Nurse II.
• Preferred Experience: Medical Surgical (Med‑Surg) experience.

Benefits

• Paid Time Off: 50 days per year (26 days annual leave, 13 days sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays)
• Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5‑year vesting) and federal 401(k) with up to 5% VA contributions
• Insurance: Federal health, vision, dental, term life, long‑term care (many federal insurance programs portable into retirement)
• Licensure: Requirement of 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory (noted as part of total rewards)
• Telework: Not available
• Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized
• Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized

Pay

Competitive salary with regular salary increases and potential for performance awards.

Schedule

Work schedule: 7:30 pm to 8:00 am and one 8‑hour shift 11:30 pm to 8:00 am per pay period, with rotating weekends and holidays. Telework not available; position is not virtual.

Check for any duplicated content: We included Licensure both in Requirements and Benefits; maybe we should avoid duplication. The requirement for licensure is already in Requirements; Benefits mention licensure as part of total rewards but it's essentially same. To avoid duplication, we could remove licensure from Benefits. However the instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. If we remove licensure from Benefits, we lose that piece of info (though it's duplicated). But we could keep it in Benefits but note it's also a requirement; duplication may be okay but maybe considered redundant. The instruction says "do NOT repeat the job title as a heading" and "do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings". It doesn't forbid repeating content elsewhere. However earlier: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." Duplication is not summarizing away; it's preserving. Might be okay. But we could avoid duplication by moving licensure to Requirements only and not mention in Benefits. However the Benefits section originally includes "Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory" as part of total rewards. If we omit it, we lose that specific statement that it's part of total rewards. But the requirement is already captured; the nuance that it's part of total rewards may be less important. I'd keep it in Benefits to preserve the exact phrasing. It's okay. Check for any other duplication: Physical Requirements included under Requirements; that's fine. Check for any missing content: The "Grade Determinations" includes a link to online assessment; we preserved that as a URL inside the text. Good. Check for any "Skills" section: Not present; we omitted. Check for any "About the role" content: we used Summary. Check for any "Responsibilities": we used the