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Registered Nurse - Float Pool
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 7 days ago
About the Role
VA Puget Sound is seeking a dedicated and adaptable Float Pool Registered Nurse (RN). In this dynamic role, the RN provides high-quality, patient-centered care while covering day-to-day staffing shortages. This is an open continuous announcement. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing/rolling basis and qualified candidates will be considered as long as a vacancy remains unfilled. The announcement may be closed at any time after the initial open period once all vacancies have been filled.
What You'll Do
- →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.
- →Responsible for maintaining competencies and required job duties such as reading email, attending in-services, and actively participating in staff meetings.
- →Completes mandatory trainings.
- →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.
- →Implements physician's/provider's orders in a timely and complete manner.
- →Implements nursing interventions/orders in a timely and complete manner.
- →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.
- →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.
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.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment.
Personality Fit
Job ID: e54035a7-a684-4fdf-a1a2-7a7a0a6d221c
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