OCA - Registered Nurse - Acute Care/Telemetry 4K - Temple, Texas - Acute Care

Company: Central Texas Veterans Health Care System - Olin E
Location: Temple
Posted on: July 31, 2022

Job Description:

OCA - Registered Nurse - Acute Care/Telemetry 4K - Temple, Texas
Duties

Preferred Experience is updated as of 06/16/22.
This announcement is extended until August 18, 2022.
Salary listed is updated.

This is an OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCEMENT & will remain open until May 18, 2022, or until all positions are filled. The first cut-off date is March 04, 2022. Eligible applications received after that date will be referred at regular intervals or as additional vacancies occur on a as-needed basis until positions are filled. Applicants will remain active for 3 months after their initial application is received and/or updated. After that time, you must update your application through your USAJobs account if you would like to be made active again for possible consideration during the open period. The Registered Nurse - Acute Care/Telemetry (4K) provides clinical nurse expertise, care, and education to diverse patient populations. The nurse is required to work and support multiple inpatient areas within the medical center as staffing and patient acuity needs acutely arise. Duties include, but not limited to the following:

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• Performs assessment/data collection in an ongoing and systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychologic and cognitive status, analyzing patient care and bringing problems to resolution.
  
• Anticipates and implements preventive patient care measures.
  
• Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to adult and geriatric patients in the medicine/telemetry environment.
  
• Possesses the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpreting the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to their age-specific needs.
  
• Performs documentation duties on the floor and in the patient record, which is timely, accurate and concise, Works as part of a team in delivering patient care, Establishes priorities of patient care based on essential patient needs and available center resources of time, personnel, equipment and supplies, and functions as a Charge Nurse and/or preceptor as required.
  
  Work Schedule:
  
  Compressed/Flexible
  
  Telework
  
  Virtual
  
  Relocation/Recruitment Incentives

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