The Registered Nurse, Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) duties include, but are not limited to the following:
- Completes face to face, telephone, and video assessments to establish nursing diagnoses as needed.
- Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates care based on population specific components.
- Carries out assigned patient care based on the patients' conditions; to use judgment in selecting the appropriate order and sequence of procedures and treatments; and to accurately recognize, report and record relevant patient information.
- Observes, identifies and responds to the patient's needs for care, including medication, equipment-assisted care, and patient/family education.
- Provides health education and procedural teaching to patients and significant others.
- Performs procedures per established policies and guidelines.
- Influences care outcomes using effective communication and collaboration with members of the interdisciplinary team.
- Administers medicine per established policies and guidelines.
- Establishes priorities and making ethically-sound decisions to ensure safe patient care.
- Assists the physicians during diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to promote optimal patient outcomes by team collaboration.
- Responds to emergency situations to promote optimal patient outcomes by recognizing changes in patient's health status.
- Performs diagnostic studies within the scope of nursing practice as ordered by the physician.
- Documents patient data to ensure continuity in the provision and coordination of patient care.
- Collaborates with other health care professionals.
- Communicates with veterans and family members regarding veteran's care.
- Applies knowledge and understanding of human behavior, patient motivations and reactions to situations, and ability to appropriately utilize this knowledge in working effectively with patients, family members and other staff.
- Establishes constructive relationships with individual patients and their families to promote positive relationships and communication.
- Fosters an environment of respect for individual patient and family rights to privacy and dignity in all aspects of care delivery.
- May be responsible for charge nurse duties.
- Manages follow-up care.
- Acts as resource to others.
- Participates in continuing education, achieving/maintaining certification.
- Possess knowledge of unit level quality improvement indicators.
- Applies knowledge and actively participates in unit/program level quality improvement processes and initiatives. -
- Provides excellent customer service according to ICARE values.
- Executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches in the management of complex patient care.
- Additional duties as assigned such as covering/float to other teams (Teamlet).
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 0730 - 1600. May be required to work other shifts, be on call, work weekends and/or holidays as patient care and needs of the service require.
Should operational needs dictate, candidates must be willing to work within other units (including community based outpatient clinics, for example) to assist and support continuation of the provision of care/services.
Telework: Not available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized
Bargaining Unit Status: This position is part of the bargaining unit.
VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package:
VA Nurse Total Rewards Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards
Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and 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)
Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory
Starting at $73,685 Per Year (VN 00)