Registered Nurse - Domiciliary Mental Health

Domiciliary Mental Health Registered Nurse (RN)

The Domiciliary Mental Health (MH) Registered Nurse (RN) executes position responsibilities to improve patient and organizational outcomes. Duties include but not limited to:

• Providing patient-centered and recovery-oriented care and maintaining self-awareness while caring for patients living with substance use disorder and/or MH conditions.
• Facilitating shift reports, warm hand-offs, and developing content as well as facilitating nurse-led psycho educational groups.
• Use of therapeutic communication techniques, practices de-escalation techniques, utilizes recovery-oriented language, and provides oversight of the patient safe medication management program.
• Demonstrating the ability to work with and lead MH interdisciplinary teams and work collaboratively with others as well as independently.
• Promoting critical thinking, participating in patient safety and environment of care rounds, directing team response to psychiatric and medical care needs and emergencies, reporting safety concerns, and assisting and/or directing safety concern resolution.
• Documenting nursing assessments, risk screens, measurement-based care tools, nursing plan of care, patient safety rounds, and environment of care rounds according to facility policy.
• Maintaining professional boundaries to protect patient vulnerabilities and act in the best interest of the patient.
• Providing peers with formal or informal constructive feedback for improvement.
• Supporting colleagues and other nurses through knowledge sharing to provide safe, quality nursing care.
• Fostering a safe and supportive environment conducive to the professional development of health care professionals.
• Other duties as assigned.

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 including weekends and holidays:
Day Shift . Given the nature of this position, the work schedule is set by the supervisor and is based on the needs and mission of the VA, the service, patients etc.

Telework:
Not available.

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment

Incentives:

Not authorized.

Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
Not authorized.