Registered Nurse - Acute Care (Emergency Department

Registered Nurse
- Acute Care (Emergency Department)

This Registered Nurse
- Acute Care (Emergency Department) position is located in Nursing, Acute Care Service at the Togus location. This position is full-time at 40 hours per week. Duties include but are not limited to:

• Responsible for providing competent, evidence-based care to assigned patients.
• Delegate and supervise basic nursing care of licensed practical nurses and unlicensed assistive personnel.
• Assist in directing the provision of nursing education, orientation, competencies and providing quality improvement and outcomes utilization.
• Provide urgent and emergent care to patients with acute and/or chronic medical, surgical, and psychiatric conditions.
• Nursing care ranges from basic nursing care to stabilization, resuscitation, and life-support measures.
• Integrates knowledge, skills, abilities, and judgment and is self-directed in goal setting for managing complex situations.
• Validates understanding of the rationale for care processes and decisions.
• Demonstrates expanded knowledge base of the nursing process in the care of assigned patients.
• Developing basic leadership skills within the concept of the unit through seeking additional leadership experiences.
• Questions clinical practices for the purpose of providing evidence-based care.
• Demonstrates the ability to cope with and manage competing priorities.
• Responsible and accountable for all elements of the nursing process when providing care.

Work Schedule:

Full-Time, Variable Nights, Weekends and Holidays, 6:30pm - 7:30am

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.

EDRP Authorized:
Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact Karen Chapman, the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance. Learn more

EDRP Assignment Code: CR

Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
Not Authorized

Notifications:

• This position is a Bargaining Unit position
• This position is in the Excepted Service
• This position is covered by a special rate
• Veterans' preference does not apply for internal or other current permanent Federal agency employees.
• Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50, (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held.

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 VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards