Registered Nurse - Primary Care

About the role

The role involves direct care for adults with various conditions, requiring the incumbent to manage non-professional staff and use equipment for patient care. The incumbent must also communicate with multiple healthcare professionals and manage patient care effectively.

Responsibilities

• Establishing nursing diagnoses
• Providing health education and procedural teaching to patients and their families
• Administering and evaluating pharmacological and other therapeutic treatment regimens
• Administering medicine and injections
• Establishing priorities and making ethical decisions to ensure safe patient care
• Assisting physicians during diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
• Responding to emergency situations
• Performing diagnostic studies within the scope of nursing practice
• Documenting patient data
• Collaborating with other health care professionals
• Communicating with veterans and family members regarding veteran’s care
• Maintaining charge nurse duties
• Managing follow-up care
• Acting as a resource to others
• Participating in continuing educational activities

Requirements

The incumbent must possess a 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. Preferred experience includes 3-5 years of acute care, medical/surgical experience.

Qualifications

• Basic Written and Spoken English proficiency
• Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by an accrediting agency
• 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
• Master's degree in nursing (MSN) or related field with a BSN and no additional professional nursing experience for Nurse III

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Regular salary increases
• Potential for performance awards
• 50 days of paid time off per year
• Retirement benefits
• Health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care insurance
• Relocation/recruitment incentives not authorized
• Permanent Change of Station (PCS) not authorized
• No EEO/Equal Opportunity/Scam Warning boilerplate

Pay

Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards.

Schedule

Based on the needs of the service.

Skills

• Knowledge of unit level performance measures
• Ability to collaborate with other health care professionals
• Ability to communicate with veterans and family members
• Ability to manage charge nurse duties
• Ability to participate in continuing educational activities

Benefits

• Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting)
• Federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance
• Free health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care insurance
• Driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards must be REAL ID compliant
• Pass pre-employment physical examination
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP)