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Registered Nurse - Inpatient Mental Health
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
This Registered Nurse position is located in the Inpatient Mental Health (4A) unit for Nursing Service at the Providence location. This positions is permanent intermittent position.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include but are not limited to: Anticipate and implement preventive patient care measures.
- →Responsible for direct patient care within the behavioral health inpatient unit and facilitates the appropriate plan of care.
- →Manage patient care promoting positive patient outcomes including the areas of addiction, chemical dependency, and withdrawal to include; areas of medical and psychiatric emergencies, detox (withdrawal symptoms) and patient safety.
- →Utilize evidenced based assessment scales such as the Clinical Institute Withdrawal of Alcohol Scale, Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale with appropriate intervention.
- →Perform assessments, planning, implementation and evaluation of health care needs and care of veterans in their care.
- →Demonstrate knowledge of therapeutic factors, dynamics of group work to facilitate or co-facilitate groups, participating or conduct patient community groups and provide patient education as needed.
- →Identify and report all unsafe conditions to appropriate personnel to ensure a safe environment for all patients, medical center personnel, and visitors.
- →Assess Veterans risk for suicide and demonstrates knowledge of suicide precautions as well as using evidence-based assessment tools such as the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale.
- →Determine the need for restraint or seclusion treatment modalities if patient is in danger to self or others.
- →Demonstrate working practices that include adherence to Infection Control standards and the safe use and operation of equipment.
- →Assure that appropriate documentation reflects assessment of patient needs, interdisciplinary treatment plans, clinical interventions, and evaluation of patients' responses to treatments.
- →Demonstrates competency in assessing and caring for the specialized needs of veterans of special populations such as but not limited to the female veteran, the geriatric patient, and all veterans with mental health needs.
- →Work Schedule: This is a intermittent position.
- →Work schedule is to be determined by supervisor.
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.
- ✓May be subject to satisfactory completion of our credentialing process.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 53a3d4b0-4bd5-4833-9b0d-825184d957f9
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