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RN Pay Scale NY 48

Note to VA Employees: Grades and steps will be unaffected by this change but could result in a change to your current salary due to different pay scales.

The specific patient population to whom direct care is provided includes adults with a variety of different conditions. The incumbent must also be able to direct non professional staff's lifting, moving, and/or transferring of patients, and use equipment to provide patient care which usually involves lifting and/or pushing the equipment. The RN is responsible for the storage, proper cleaning techniques, and use of reusable medical equipment (RME). He/She is responsible for carrying out proper procedures for caring for patients in an isolation environment by following proper infection control procedures. Communicates regularly with nurse managers, physicians, nursing supervisors, charge nurses, transfer coordinators, allied healthcare staff, healthcare technicians, Pharmacy, and the business office.

The RN's role will include, but is not limited to the following duties:

Establishing nursing diagnoses.
Providing health education and procedural teaching to patients and significant others.
Administering and evaluating pharmacological and other therapeutic treatment regimens.
Administering medicine
Administering Injections - Vaccines etc.
Establishing priorities and making ethically-sound decisions to ensure safe patient care.
Assisting the physicians during diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to promote optimal patient outcomes by team collaboration.
Responding to emergency situations to promote optimal patient outcomes by recognizing changes in patients' health status.
Performing diagnostic studies within the scope of nursing practice as ordered by the physician.
Documenting patient data to ensure continuity in the provision and coordination of patient care.
Collaborating with other health care professionals.
Communicating with veterans ad family members regarding veteran's care.
May be responsible for charge nurse duties
Managing follow-up care.
Acting as resource to others.
Participating in continuing educational activities, achieving/maintaining certification.
Possess knowledge of unit level performance measures and participates in quality improvement monitoring
Additional duties as assigned

Primary Care and/or PACT experience HIGHLY preferred

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

Work Schedule: Day Shift, Monday-Friday
Telework: ad hoc may be authorized
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required