Registered Nurse - Spinal Cord Injury

The Spinal Cord Injury Service consists of a 38 bed CARF-accredited rehabilitation unit. This service provides care for medically complex patients including vent dependent patients, and provides acute SCI rehabilitation, medical rehospitalizations, post-op care, pressure ulcer treatment, annual evaluations, and outpatient treatment.

Duties include but are not limited to:

* Responsible and accountable for individual nursing practice and determines the appropriate delegation of tasks consistent with the nurse's obligation to provide optimal care (ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses).

* Delivers safe care to assigned patients, while developing technical competencies.

* Safely and effectively uses patient care equipment.

* Correctly and safely performs nursing procedures.

* Recognizes overt abnormal signs and symptoms and/or changes in patients' condition and responds appropriately.

* Monitor telemetry and respond to rhythm changes

* Implements physician's/provider's orders in a timely and complete manner.

* Implements nursing interventions/orders in a timely and complete manner.

* Requests assistance from co-workers when needed; knows when to ask for help.

* Formulates a plan of care based on nursing assessments, using the nursing process, based on the ANA Standards of Nursing.

* Completes initial assessment of patient condition and response to treatment and initiates follow-up as needed.

* Includes the patient and family/significant other in developing the initial plan of care and establishing goals.

* Updates plan of care with assistance as needed.

* Assesses patient's learning needs, learning preference and readiness to learn.

* Develops and implements a plan to meet learning needs, instructing patients and families in basic health teaching and discharge planning.

* Documentation is consistent, accurate, concise, and timely.

* Evaluates and documents patient response to interventions and progress towards attainment of goals and expected outcomes.

* Revises plan of care according to evaluations of patient's responses and outcomes.

* Uses the Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS), Essentris, Clinical Procedures, and Bar Coded Medication Administration (BCMA) software per policy, as well as any future patient documentation programs.

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. Compressed day shifts with alternating weekends, 7:30am - 4:00pm and 7:30am - 8:00pm.

Compressed/Flexible:
Available

Telework:
Not authorized

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment

Incentives:

Not authorized.

Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
Not authorized.