Registered Nurse- Surgical Specialty Care

About the role

The James J Peters VA Medical Center is currently recruiting for a full-time Registered Nurse for Surgical Specialty Care : Outpatient Staff RN located in the Bronx - New York. The Registered Nurse assumes responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient education, self‑management, and customer satisfaction throughout the continuum of care.

Responsibilities

• Provides competent, evidence‑based specialty care to assigned patients and oversight of licensed vocational nurses/nursing assistants as appropriate to the setting.
• Delivers comprehensive, evidence‑based nursing care to patients experiencing acute or chronic disorders.
• Operates in outpatient units, surgical suites, or ambulatory clinics as a primary clinician, educator, and care coordinator within a multidisciplinary medical team.
• Assists in directing the provision of nursing education, orientation, competencies, and provides quality improvement and outcomes utilization consultation.
• Administers medications and procedures per established policies and guidelines.
• Influences care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Demonstrates leadership in delivering and improving holistic care through collaborative strategies with others.
• 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.
• Contributes professional nursing perspective in discussions with the interdisciplinary team.
• Partners with others to effect change and produce optimal outcomes.
• Evaluates practice in an ongoing process based on best evidence.
• Provides peers with informal constructive feedback for improvement.

Requirements

• English Language Proficiency: must be proficient in basic written and spoken English (38 U.S.C. 7403(f)).
• Education: 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.
• Alternative education paths:
  • Individuals in a master's‑level bridge program who have completed coursework equivalent to a bachelor's degree in Nursing may become registered with a state licensing board prior to bridge completion; upon licensure they may be appointed temporarily and later converted to permanent after graduation.
  • Graduates of foreign schools of professional nursing with a current, full, active, and unrestricted registration meet the requirement for an associate‑degree/entry‑level nursing education; foreign education higher than associate degree requires formal degree equivalency validation (e.g., International Consultants of Delaware).
• Licensure: current, full, active, and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in any U.S. state, territory, commonwealth (including Puerto Rico), or the District of Columbia.
• Graduate Nurse Technician (GNT) exception: candidates meeting basic education requirements but lacking licensure may be appointed as a GNT on a 120‑day temporary appointment (extendable up to two years) while pursuing licensure.
• Grandfathering provision: