Nurse, Healthcare Nursing

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

Including but not limited to:

• Leads and organizes delivery of care to ensure continuity of care and peer accountability or practice in alignment with the ANA Standards of Nursing Practice.
• Applies advanced clinical knowledge/judgment to lead staff involvement in planning, decision-making, and evaluating outcomes beyond the immediate practice setting.
• Applies nursing expertise to lead improvement, with demonstrated outcomes, beyond the immediate practice setting.
• Veteran/Patient Driven Care
• Leads initiatives to improve the Veteran experience i.e., care coordination, timeliness to resolve issues, negative trends, or environment of care concerns, beyond the immediate practice setting.
• Demonstrates leadership in patient advocacy by protecting the health, safety, and rights of patient population groups beyond the immediate practice setting.
• Leads staff to identify, analyze and address ethical issues that impact patients, caregivers, and staff beyond the immediate practice setting.
• Models' high reliability principles and I CARE values to improve the consistency of care delivery and patient outcomes beyond the immediate practice setting.

• Demonstrates positive, effective communication skills, professional behaviors and leadership that promotes a commitment to excellence, improving nursing practice, and fostering collaboration among customers beyond the immediate practice setting.
• Makes sustained contributions to healthcare by actively participating in healthcare facility or service-level committees or councils, establishing active relationships and demonstrating leadership in improving care beyond the immediate practice setting.
• Leads with emotional and social intelligence. Demonstrates resilience in coping with challenging and stressful situations, to assist others in increasing their self­ determination and competence beyond the immediate practice setting.
• Excels in making appropriate judgements. Demonstrates integrity in the workplace and facilitates formal and informal mentoring opportunities to develop current and future leaders beyond the immediate practice setting.
• Initiates and leads interdisciplinary teams that utilize critical thinking to improve nursing practice beyond the immediate practice setting.

• Leads educational initiatives that expand knowledge to improve outcomes beyond the immediate practice setting.
• Accountable for personal and professional career goals with outcomes that have an impact beyond the immediate practice setting.
• Guides the professional growth of others beyond the immediate practice setting.
• Advances nursing practice through contributions to knowledge development or education beyond the immediate practice setting.
• Evidence-Based Practice/Research:
• Demonstrates expertise in evidence-based practice/research resulting in improved outcomes beyond the immediate practice setting.
• Demonstrates expertise in managing resources that contribute to efficient, cost­ effective care and sharing knowledge beyond the immediate practice setting.
• Demonstrates expertise in performance improvement by leading initiatives and sharing outcomes beyond the immediate practice setting.
• Demonstrates expertise by integrating patient preferences into care delivery decisions and sharing knowledge and outcomes with peers beyond the immediate practice setting.

Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards

50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)

Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm