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The following are the list of duties but not limited to:
- Safely and accurately perform personal care skills, including measuring and recording vital signs to include temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure and measuring of height and weight.
- Provides direct care for acute, long-term, perioperative, primary care and psychiatric patients/residents per established Oklahoma City VA HCS abiding by policies and nursing procedures.
- Measures and records intake and outpatient, feeding techniques, non-sterile specimen collection, transfer positioning, and turning techniques. Self-directed in seeking out RN, Lead Nurse, or Change Nurse to report patient-related information.
- The Nurse Aide will work within their scope of practice, competency level and the defined skills list for Nurse Aides for the Oklahoma City VAHCS.
- Maintain appropriate communication with patients, families, and other health care workers, use medical asepsis and universal precautions, and documents care given is inherent to the role.
- Self-directed in seeking out RN, Lead Nurse, or Charge Nurse to report patient-related information.
- Collects Veteran data, participates in care planning, performs approved skills per orders or by protocol in accordance with the care planning.
- Assists with patient education and documentation of education provided.
- Promotes independence of Veteran by means of respect, limit setting, and individualized treatment.
- Initiates basic life support and promptly recognize/respond to emergent situations.
- Monitor patients/residents per levels of observation, acuity levels and assignment sheet.
- Offers supportive nursing care to critically or terminally ill patients/residents. Provides emotional support to patient/resident and/or family and significant other.
- Receptive to constructive feedback and self-directed in improving performance and interpersonal skills to enhance professional development.
- Participates in unit base educational activities and continuing education opportunities to increase clinical and professional knowledge. Completes orientation, unit-based in-services, and mandatory educational activities in a self-directed manner by established timeframes.
- Identifies own deficits in skills and knowledge and acts to correct performance.
- Attend daily huddle and team meeting as per area.
- Work with team to "scrub" clinic to promote open access. Completes pre-visit calls for appointment reminders as per area.
- Actively participates in Committees and tasks groups that improve the overall nursing program.
- All other duties assigned based on the needs of the facility.
Work Schedule: 730pm to 8am alternating 4-day shifts with rotating weekend and holiday coverage as required by facility needs
Compressed/Flexible:Compressed
Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized
Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases
Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66
. 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)
Telework: Not Available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 59208A, 59209A, 59210A
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Starting at $37,274 Per Year (GS 3-5)