This position is located on the Community Living Center (8A) unit at the Alvin C. York Campus in Murfreesboro, TN. and reports to Nurse Manager, 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 residents, and use equipment to provide resident-centered 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 residents 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.
- Direct patient care
- Providing health education and procedural teaching to patients and significant others.
- Administering and evaluating pharmacological and other therapeutic treatment regimens.
- Administering medicine
- 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 and 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 education achieving/maintaining certification.
- Possess knowledge of unit level monitors and quality improvement findings.
- Additional duties as assigned
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: 0700 to 1930 for 12 hours and 0700 to 1530 for 8 hours. Dayshift Based on the needs of the service
EDRP Authorized:
Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact , VISN 9 HR EDRP VISN9HREDRP@VA.GOV, the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance.
Learn more Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not Authorized
Functional Statement Number: #70576-F
Pay Schedule: N031
Starting at $76,091 Per Year (VN 00)