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Registered Nurse (Associate Chief Nurse) Mental Health
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
The Registered Nurse- Associate Chief Nurse (ACN) Mental Health executes leadership that is characterized by substantial and continuous responsibility and accountability for population groups of integrated programs that cross services and discipline lines and influence the the organizational health care mission.
What You'll Do
- →A Career At VA Salt Lake City Health Care System Can Take You Places (youtube.com) Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following: Leads and oversees the day-to-day delivery of professional nursing services on the VA medical facility inpatient mental health unit and ensuring effective development and functioning of the therapeutic milieu.
- →Ensures safety observation occurs that is consistent with the level of observation ordered for each patient and the processes outlined in the SOP for Maintaining Safety and Security on the inpatient mental health unit.
- →Ensures requests for additional staffing necessary to provide safe clinical care are submitted in a timely manner to VA medical center leadership by completing the required staffing methodology according to VHA Directive 1351.
- →Directs the VA medical facility nursing team's collaboration and partnership with the ITT.
- →Sets VA medical facility inpatient mental health unit goals and measures outcomes related to Veteran and staff safety and the quality of patient care services utilizing nursing-related outcomes and high reliability principles.
- →Ensures all new VA medical facility inpatient mental health nursing staff (including float and agency staff) receive appropriate unit orientation such as ONS Psychiatric-Mental Health orientation program, PMDB, 1:1 safety observation, unit safety rules, patient safety rounding and environment of care rounding procedures.
- →Ensures that VA medical facility nursing staff engage Veterans in recovery-oriented therapeutic programming and milieu management.
- →Monitors required HER nursing documentation (e.g. 1:1 or individual meetings with Veterans, rounding documentation, documentation for critical incidents such as disruptive behavior reports or safety reports) to ensure completeness, timeliness, accuracy, and appropriateness.
- →Collaborates with the VA medical facility IMHPM and VA medical facility Patient Safety Officer to consistently ensure a safe and secure environment of care.
- →Collaborates with the VA medical facility IMHPM to ensure appropriate mitigation strategies are in place and communicated to all VA medical facility inpatient mental health staff until repairs are completed.
- →Reviews Veteran and staff feedback regularly (quarterly at a minimum) such as customer satisfaction surveys, the All-Employee Survey (AES), and available inpatient mental health data to ensure smooth operations and communicating the feedback and data to all VA medical facility inpatient mental health staff periodically.
- →Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
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.
Personality Fit
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