Registered Nurse – Float Pool

Summary

VA Puget Sound is seeking a dedicated and adaptable Float Pool Registered Nurse (RN). In this dynamic role, the RN provides high-quality, patient-centered care while covering day-to-day staffing shortages. This is an open continuous announcement. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing/rolling basis and qualified candidates will be considered as long as a vacancy remains unfilled.

The announcement may be closed at any time after the initial open period once all vacancies have been filled.

Duties

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Responsible and accountable for individual nursing practice and determines the appropriate delegation of tasks consistent with the nurse's obligation to provide optimal care.
• Responsible for maintaining competencies and required job duties such as reading email, attending in-services, and actively participating in staff meetings.
• Completes mandatory trainings.
• Safely and effectively uses patient care equipment.
• Correctly and safely performs nursing procedures.
• Recognizes overt abnormal signs and symptoms and/or changes in patients' condition and responds appropriately.
• Implements physician's/provider's orders in a timely and complete manner.
• Implements nursing interventions/orders in a timely and complete manner.
• Formulates a plan of care based on nursing assessments, using the nursing process, based on the ANA Standards of Nursing.
• Completes initial assessment of patient condition and response to treatment and initiates follow-up as needed.
• Includes the patient and family/significant other in developing the initial plan of care and establishing goals. Updates plan of care.
• Assesses patient's learning needs, learning preference and readiness to learn.
• Develops and implements a plan to meet learning needs, instructing patients and families in basic health teaching and discharge planning.
• Evaluates and documents patient response to interventions and progress towards attainment of goals and expected outcomes.
• Revises plan of care according to evaluations of patient's responses and outcomes.
• Uses the Electronic Health Record (EHR) software per policy.
• Works as a team with NAs and LPNs and delegates follows up on tasks.
• Delivers medications using BCMA.
• Adheres to Fall Prevention protocols.
• Adheres to one-to-one and close nurse observation protocols.
• Provides complex wound care.
• Administers blood products as ordered.
• Administers IV Fluids, TPN, Lipids, PCA and manages multiple IV medications while checking compatibility.
• Completes cardiac telemetry monitoring training and passes exam with 80% or greater within first 6 months of working on an Acute Care unit.
• Monitors telemetry and responds to rhythm changes timely.
• Adheres to remote telemetry procedures and policies.
• Provides coverage to telemetry monitoring, as assigned.
• Serves as primary staffing resource to COVID unit when operating, to include coverage of charge nurse duties, as assigned.
• VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards.
• Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards.
• 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.
• 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 Work.
• Schedule: 7:30pm – 8:00am and 11:30pm – 8:00am with rotating weekends/holidays.
• Compressed/Flexible: Authorized Telework: Not authorized Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Requirements

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.

Conditions of employment include:

• 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.

Education

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. Note: The National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission/NLNAC changed its name to ACEN in May 2013. ACEN’s website may be utilized to verify accredited programs using automated inquiry processes; however, for verification of any nursing program’s accreditation prior to 1998, an automated inquiry cannot be used and ACEN must be contacted directly via their email contact information on the ACEN website to verify.) Note: In order to grant credit towards an appointment based on foreign nursing education higher than the associate degree level, formal degree equivalency validation from a recognized degree equivalency evaluation agency accepted by VA such as the International Consultants of Delaware (ICD) must be obtained.

Required Documents

Prepare the documents below before applying. Always confirm the exact requirements on the official announcement, since they vary by position:

• Your full resume/CV may be uploaded without page limitation into the 'Other' document upload field.
• Letter DD-214/ Statement of.
• Other (3) PCS Orders.
• Notice (RIF) SF-15 SF-50/ Notification of.
• Preference eligible candidates and other.
• Veterans will be given preference when qualification of candidates are approximately equal for.
• Title 38 positions in VHA.
• When applying for Federal Jobs, eligible Veterans should claim preference for 5pt (TP), 10pt (CP/CPS/XP), or for Sole Survivor Preference (SSP) in the questionnaire.
• You must provide a legible copy of your DD214(s) which shows dates and character of service (honorable, general, etc.).