RN - General

Future Opportunity!

Registered Nurse – Primary Care

Contract/Facility: Dayton VA Medical Center

Location: Dayton, OH 45428

Contract Type: SCA

Revision Date: 9.9.2026

The Primary Care Registered Nurse (RN) provides direct and indirect nursing care in a VA clinical setting, contributing to patient assessment, determining priorities, identifying nursing measures and therapeutic objectives, and evaluating outcomes. The RN uses independent judgment, flexibility, organizational skills, and an interdisciplinary approach to provide safe, timely, patient-centered care in accordance with VA rules, regulations, policies, and standards.

This is a future opportunity!

This section provides a high-level summary of the main functions of this position and is not an exhaustive list of all duties required to perform this role.

• Arrives on time and is physically present for scheduled clinic assignments.
• Determines the appropriate course of treatment and communicates with referring clinicians in person or by phone as appropriate.
• Provides indirect nursing care by contributing to patient assessment, determining priorities, identifying nursing measures and therapeutic objectives, and evaluating outcomes.
• Uses independent judgment, flexibility, organizational skills, and an interdisciplinary approach in the provision of nursing care.
• Obtains patient history and pertinent family history.
• Assesses patients and plans appropriate nursing care.
• Documents the plan of care and care provided in the patient’s medical record.
• Verifies transcription of physician orders and follows facility policy regarding verbal orders.
• Communicates pertinent patient data to the charge nurse and/or physician as appropriate.
• Reassesses patient condition and revises the plan of care based on identified nursing problems.
• Administers medications and intravenous (IV) therapies.
• Maintains knowledge of the actions, usual dosages, and location of commonly used emergency drugs, including those on the crash cart.
• Assesses and documents patient response to administered medications.
• Interprets cardiac rhythms and understands their clinical implications.
• Recognizes emergencies and initiates appropriate measures and therapies; assists with surgical and diagnostic procedures as appropriate.
• Instructs patients and families regarding prescribed medications, therapies, and surgical or diagnostic procedures.
• Assesses patient and family knowledge, implements an appropriate plan of instruction, and documents demonstrated understanding.
• Operates defibrillators, EKG machines, cardiac monitors, and other emergency technical equipment.
• Participates in discharge planning as appropriate.
• Assures the content and correctness of prepared reports and signs documents to validate their content.
• Maintains a neat personal appearance and professional decorum.
• Consistently applies VA customer service standards and demonstrates helpful, courteous, and respectful conduct.
• Respects patient rights, including visual and auditory privacy.
• Assesses intake and output every shift and more frequently when indicated by specific standards of nursing care.
• Reviews laboratory data and electronic medical records.
• Performs central line and ventilator care in compliance with health care system policy when applicable.
• Performs skin assessments and initiates measures to prevent Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers (HAPU).
• Ensures medication orders from the previous shift have been noted and either carried out or transcribed into the medical record appropriately.
• Carries out prescribed physician orders and documents actions in the patient’s medical record.
• Cares for patients with a variety of catheters and prostheses.
• Initiates life-saving measures in the absence of a physician when necessary.
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