Registered Nurse - Domiciliary

Northern Arizona VA Health Care System is looking for a Registered Nurse (Domiciliary) to join the Mental Health & Behavioral Sciences team!

The duties of the position include but are not limited to the following:

* The Nurse Domiciliary Mental Health (MH) Registered Nurse (RN) executes position responsibilities to improve patient and organizational outcomes.

* Executes their position duties by providing patient-centered and recovery-oriented care and maintaining self-awareness while caring for patients living with substance use disorder and/or MH conditions.

* Facilitates shift reports, warm hand-offs, and develops content as well as facilitates nurse-led psycho educational groups.

* Use therapeutic communication techniques, practices de-escalation techniques, utilizes recovery-oriented language, and provides oversight of the patient safe medication management program.

* Demonstrates the ability to work with and lead MH interdisciplinary teams and work collaboratively with others as well as independently.

* Promote critical thinking, participates in patient safety and environment of care rounds, directs team response to psychiatric and medical care needs and emergencies, reports safety concerns, and assists and/or directs safety concern resolution.

* Documents nursing assessments, risk screens, measurement-based care tools, nursing plan of care, patient safety rounds, and environment of care rounds according to facility policy.

* Maintains professional boundaries to protect patient vulnerabilities and act in the best interest of the patient.

* Provides peers with formal or informal constructive feedback for improvement.

* Supports colleagues and other nurses through knowledge sharing to provide safe, quality nursing care.

* Fosters a safe and supportive environment conducive to the professional development of health care professionals.

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:

Full-time. This position potentially requires flexibility in schedule and assignments, as this is a 24/7 hospital. Some positions require rotation of tours or indefinite work on non-administrative tours as established by the immediate supervisor. Not all duties may be listed, so other duties may be assigned.

Telework:
Not available.

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment

Incentives:

Not Authorized.

Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
Not Authorized.