Registered Nurse - Clinical Nurse Generalist

Summary

The Clinical Nurse Generalist Position will focus extensively on providing guidance to acute care and critical care nurse orientee(s) at the VA North Texas Health Care System (VANTHCS). The Clinical Nurse Generalist will help ensure successful completion of nursing orientation process and allow the nurse orientee(s) to feel prepared to function in their role independently.

Through our partnership with the Univ. of Texas Medical Center at Dallas, we have emerged as a major teaching and medical research center. The Clinical Nurse Generalist Position will focus extensively on providing guidance to acute care and critical care nurse orientee(s) at the VA North Texas Health Care System (VANTHCS). The Clinical Nurse Generalist will help ensure successful completion of nursing orientation process and allow the nurse orientee(s) to feel prepared to function in their role independently.

The Clinical Nurse Generalist will help precept, train, assess, and coach the nurse orientee(s) to ensure they are learning the organizational protocols, completing orientation milestones, receiving feedback/guidance, and providing instruction on nursing skills. The Clinical Nurse Generalist will collaborate with the assigned preceptor, unit-based educators (UBE), Project Coordinator, and staff development specialist (SDS).

The Clinical Nurse Generalist provides clinical skills with an emphasis on hands‑on training. The Clinical Nurse Generalist serves as a role model, mentor, educator, and facilitator. The Clinical Nurse Generalist will help create an educational environment which fosters innovation, responsiveness, and accountability. The Clinical Nurse Generalist will be flexible and adaptable to responsibilities that impact the organization to promote Veteran‑centric care.

The Clinical Nurse Generalist serves as the primary clinical resource to the nurse orientee(s) in their assigned clinical unit/department. The Clinical Nurse Generalist will work on the assigned nursing unit in the role with a clinical assignment, as needed up to 20% of their time of each pay period, which equates to 8 hours biweekly. The Clinical Nurse Generalist will provide bi‑weekly feedback, more often if needed, to the Project Coordinator regarding preceptee and preceptor experiences.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards

Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards
Paid Time 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 VA
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: Monday - Friday, 0730‑1600/0800‑1630. May be required to work other shifts, be on call, work weekends and/or holidays as patient care and needs of the service require. Should operational needs dictate, candidates must be willing to work within other units (including community based outpatient clinics, for example) to assist and support continuation of the provision of care/services.
Telework: Not Available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment

Incentives:

Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required
Bargaining Unit: This position is not part of the Bargaining unit.

• 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…