Registered Nurse - Community Living Center

Build a rewarding nursing career in the Community Living Center, where you will play an important role in helping Veterans maintain function, independence, safety, and quality of life. As part of an interdisciplinary team, you will combine hands-on nursing care with care coordination, resident and family engagement, and evidence-based practice to meet each Veteran's individual needs. This position also offers opportunities to serve as a clinical resource, collaborate across services on complex care needs, contribute to performance improvement, and help maintain a safe, therapeutic environment for Veterans receiving continuing care.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individualized nursing care for Community Living Center residents while coordinating services across the continuum of care.
• Administer medications, treatments, and nursing procedures while promoting safe, effective, and resident-centered care.
• Engage Veterans, families, and caregivers in care planning, incorporating their needs, preferences, values, and goals into treatment decisions.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary team members and other services to coordinate complex care needs and create a seamless experience for Veterans.
• Serve as a clinical resource and liaison between nursing staff and the Nurse Manager to support communication and coordinated care delivery.
• Conduct clinical and environmental rounds to evaluate care delivery, assess the therapeutic environment and safety, and identify opportunities for program improvement.
• Apply evidence-based nursing practice, research, and current literature to strengthen care delivery and support quality and performance improvement initiatives.
• Participate in the development and implementation of professional nursing standards and help ensure appropriate nursing coverage to support continuity of resident care.

Shifts and Hours

We operate on a 12-hour shift schedule:

- Day Shift: 6:00 AM - 6:30 PM

- Night Shift: 6:00 PM - 6:30 AM

You are scheduled to work 80 hours in a two-week period. This includes a mix of:

- 12-hour shifts (6 shifts)

- 8-hour shifts (1 shifts)

- Day Shift: 6:00 AM - 2:30 PM

- Night Shift: 10:00 PM - 6:30 AM

Scheduling Notes

- Shift Assignment: While we do our best to accommodate preferences, your scheduled shift may vary based on the center's needs. We cannot guarantee a permanent day or night shift.

- Night Shift Rotation: Staff assigned to day shifts will rotate onto night shifts for a two-week period based on seniority.

- Rotating hours, weekends and holidays

• English Language Proficiency. In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7403(f), no person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English.
• Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate accrediting agency and accredited by one of the following accrediting bodies at the time the program was completed by the applicant: The Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE); OR Individuals attending a master's level bridge program in nursing who have completed coursework equivalent to a bachelor's level degree in Nursing may have opportunity to become registered as a nurse with a state licensing board prior to completion of the bridge program. Upon achievement of a State license, the individual may be appointed on temporary basis and later converted to a permanent appointment upon successful completion and graduation from the bridge program. (Reference VA Handbook 5005, Appendix G6); OR In cases of graduates of foreign schools of professional nursing, possession of a current, full, active, and unrestricted registration will meet the requirement for graduation from an approved school of professional nursing to warrant an appointment as a Nurse who has completed an associated degree/entry level Nursing education program. Credit for foreign nursing education higher that associate degree/entry level requires a formal degree equivalency validation from a recognized equivalency evaluation accepted by VA such as International Consultants of Delaware (ICD).
• Current, full, active, and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a State, Territory or Commonwealth (i.e., Puerto Rico) of the United States, or the District of Columbia. Graduate Nurse Technician (GNT) Exception: Candidates who otherwise meet the basic education requirements, but do not possess the required licensure, may be appointed at the entry step of the grade and level applicable to the completed nursing education as a GNT on a 120-day temporary appointment while actively pursuing licensure (may be extended up to two years on a case-by-case-basis.)

• 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 evaluation.
• 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.