Registered Nurse - Nursing Officer

Job Title

Job duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Deliver and coordinate safe, efficient, and effective patient care across all facility areas.
• Provide and direct nursing care using the nursing process: data collection, assessment, clinical judgment, and evaluation.
• Promote health maintenance and illness/injury prevention.
• Communicate and interpret hospital and nursing policies for staff, physicians, and other personnel to support quality care.
• Address employee conduct issues using open, constructive communication.
• Support and apply nursing research and evidence-based practices to improve patient and departmental outcomes.
• Facilitate appropriate patient placement based on census, acuity, staffing, and anticipated admissions.
• Use fiscally responsible judgment when allocating and utilizing resources.
• Assign float pool staff as needed.
• Respond to codes, rapid responses, and patient deaths.
• Communicate clinical knowledge and judgment to involve staff in planning, decision-making, and outcome evaluation.
• Maintain foundational knowledge of clinical practice appropriate to assigned roles.
• Collaborate with staff to integrate professional standards, scientific evidence, and best practices into programs or service activities.
• Seek continued knowledge and leadership development to manage complex situations.
• Assume authority and accountability for staffing, resource allocation, and oversight during weekends, holidays, and off-tour hours in the absence of leadership.
• Conduct rounding and serve as a consultant to providers.
• Collaborate with the Administrative Officer of the Day and interdisciplinary team for patient care decisions and emergency/disaster response.
• Provide programmatic outcomes and feedback to nursing leadership to improve processes and patient care delivery.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package:

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, Rotating Shifts to include days, nights, holidays and weekends

Compressed/Flexible:
Available

Telework:
Not available

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position

Relocation/Recruitment

Incentives:

Not authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
Not authorized