Registered Nurse - Inpatient Mental Health

<p>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.</p><h3>Major Duties</h3><p>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. Compressed/Flexible: May be Authorized Telework: Not Authorized Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory Notifications: This is a Bargaining Unit position. This position is in the Excepted Service. Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50, (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held. This position is covered by a special rate.</p><h3>Requirements</h3>U.S. 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.<h3>Education</h3>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. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html. The Associate Degree Nursing (ADN), Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing (BSN), or Master of Science degree in Nursing (MSN) must be fully accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or the Commission On Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). Verification of accreditation may be obtained from http://www.acenursing.us/accreditedprograms/programsearch.htm or https://directory.ccnecommunity.org/reports/accprog.asp.- If your school has changed names, or is no longer in existence, you must provide this information in your application.- If your school was accredited by ACEN or CCNE at the time of graduation, but is no longer listed on the websites, you must provide documentation of accreditation with your application packet.