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Nursing Assistant
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 141 days ago
About the Role
The Oklahoma City VA Health Care System is hiring for one (1) Nursing Assistant. The Nurse Aide Provides direct care for complex, acute, primary care and long-term patients/residents per established Oklahoma City Veterans' Health Care System ( OKC VAHCS). The Nurse Aide will attend to needed and vital requirements of the patient/resident and ensure all regulatory and hospital guidelines and practices are followed, providing for a positive care experience within the OKC VAHCS.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Duties include, but are not limited to: The Nurse Aide will work within their scope of practice, competency level and the defined skills list for Nurse Aides for the Oklahoma City VAHCS.
- →Safely and accurately perform personal care skills.
- →Measures and records vital signs to include temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure and measuring height and weight.
- →Measures and records intake and output, feeding techniques, non-sterile specimen collection, transfer, positioning, and turning techniques.
- →The need to maintain appropriate communication with patients, families, and other health care workers, use medical asepsis and universal precautions, and document care given is inherent to the role.
- →Collects Veteran data, participates in care planning, performs approved skills per orders or by protocol in accordance with the care planning.
- →Assists with patient education and documentation of education provided.
- →Promotes independence of Veteran by means of respect, limit setting, and individualized treatment.
- →Initiates basic life support and promptly recognize/respond to emergent situations.
- →Participates in unit based educational activities and continuing education opportunities to increase clinical and professional knowledge.
- →Completes orientation, unit-based in-services, and mandatory educational activities in a self directed manner by established timeframes.
- →Identifies own deficits in skills and knowledge and acts to correct performance.
- →Offers supportive nursing care to critically or terminally ill patients/residents.
- →Provides emotional support to patient/resident and/or family and significant other.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓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.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓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.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓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 1 or 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: 484af0c6-da81-4d2c-a116-158f38cd16ea
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