Registered Nurse

About the position

The Registered Nurse position at the Atlanta VA Healthcare System involves providing comprehensive nursing care to veterans in a primary care setting. The role emphasizes patient assessment, documentation, and collaboration with healthcare teams to ensure high-quality care. The nurse will be responsible for triaging patients, administering medications, and performing various clinical procedures while adhering to established protocols and policies.

Responsibilities

• Triages and promotes accurate documentation in the Primary Care (PC) PACT notes.
• Observes, records, and reports patient's response or changes in patient's condition.
• Promptly recognizes and responds to urgent or emergent situations.
• Assists provider with exams and procedures such as accu-checks, weight/height, and Telehealth duties.
• Performs treatments including EKG, injections, and dressing changes.
• Completes encounters in a timely and accurate manner.
• Prepares and administers medications, both oral and injections, per provider/protocol.
• Tracks and administers required immunizations as per provider/protocol.
• Completes written orders per provider/protocol.
• Enters consults for social services, prosthetics, nutrition, etc.
• Assists with and documents exit/discharged interviews, ensuring closure by confirming required patient education and orders have been processed/completed.
• Instructs/directs patients to Lab, X-ray, and other support services.
• Performs and enters urine pregnancy test results in CPRS.
• Performs ear irrigations as ordered per provider/protocol.
• Assists Team with panel management and chronic disease management per protocol.
• Promotes evidence-based patient-driven care and completes Clinical Reminders.
• Responds to Secure Messaging in a timely and appropriate manner (within 24-48 hours).
• Contacts patients with normal and abnormal lab results as documented in provider's progress note.
• Coordinates care, follow-up labs, procedures, case management, and addresses care coordination issues.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• Graduation from a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate accrediting agency.
• Current, full, active, and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the U.S.
• Proficiency in basic written and spoken English.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in a primary care setting.
• Knowledge of evidence-based practices in nursing.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team.

Benefits

• Competitive salary with regular salary increases and potential for performance awards.
• 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays).
• Traditional federal pension and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA.
• Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care insurance options.