Registered Nurse - Resource Pool/Float

Serve Veterans in a dynamic nursing role that offers the opportunity to work across multiple care settings while expanding your clinical experience. As a Resource Pool/Float Registered Nurse, you will support continuity and quality of care wherever your expertise is needed, building therapeutic relationships with Veterans and their families while delivering individualized, evidence-based nursing care. You will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, contribute to shared care decisions, and strengthen your practice through varied assignments, continuing education, and participation in activities designed to improve patient outcomes and care delivery.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

- Provide direct and indirect nursing care to Veterans across multiple nursing units based on patient and organizational needs.

- Assess patient conditions and develop, implement, and evaluate individualized plans of care using the nursing process.

- Administer medications, treatments, and nursing procedures in accordance with established clinical policies and guidelines.

- Coordinate care across the continuum with a focus on patient education, self-management, safety, and positive health outcomes.

- Engage Veterans, families, and caregivers in care planning by incorporating their needs, preferences, values, and goals into treatment decisions.

- Collaborate with interdisciplinary team members to develop, implement, and evaluate coordinated approaches to patient care.

- Delegate appropriate elements of nursing care based on patient needs, clinical condition, safety considerations, and the capabilities of team members.

- Apply evidence-based practices and participate in unit-based performance improvement activities that enhance quality, effectiveness, and resource-conscious patient care.

• 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.)

• BLS/ACLS preferred
• Critical Experience Preferred

• 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.