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Emergency Room Registered Nurse
Veterans Health Administration · Posted today
About the Role
The Registered Nurse in the Emergency Department at VA San Diego Health Care Systems executes position responsibilities that demonstrates leadership, in delivering and improving holistic care through collaborative strategies with others.
What You'll Do
- →VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards The ED RN assumes the following major duties and responsibilities: Leads and organizes delivery of care to assure continuity of care and peer accountability for practice, including access to care and discharge planning.
- →Uses advance clinical knowledge/judgment to promote staff involvement in planning, decision making, and evaluating outcomes.
- →Functions as an expert in clinical practice and/or areas related to the assignment of roles and responsibilities.
- →Systematically evaluates current practice and formulates outcomes for groups of patients and/or organizational processes within an area of expertise.
- →Guides, develops, and supports staff from a leadership perspective.
- →Uses professional standards of care, scientific evidence, and practice to evaluate programs and/or service activities.
- →Participates in orientation, unit-based in-services, and mandatory education activities in a self-directed manner.
- →Evaluates unit performance as measured against The Joint Commission standards and takes action to correct deficits to ensure compliance as part of continued readiness.
- →Supports and encourages others to read and correctly interpret medical center and service-level policies and procedures.
- →Assumes leadership role in identifying policies, procedures, standards, guidelines, and protocols requiring review or revision.
- →Applies and directs others to apply infection control measures appropriately in delivering care.
- →Identifies and analyzes systems problems which effect/impede patient care and initiates their resolution.
- →Provides leadership in coordinating patient care and collaborating with other disciplines/departments to achieve patient care outcome.
- →Performs procedures or seeks help when needed, such as phlebotomy, IV insertion, 12 lead ECG, blood transfusions, urinary catheter insertion and care.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓You may be required to serve a probationary period.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 014acd9f-6447-487c-bf37-40dd15341656
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