Registered Nurse; PACT

Overview

The RN (PACT) provides direct patient care and care coordination - as it pertains - to Veterans and their care within the Primary Care Department.

• A Career At VA Salt Lake City Health Care System Can Take You Places (). Duties include - but not limited to:
  Provide full range of nursing care to Veteran/Patients - including complex care needs using the nursing process
• Implement the PACT concept of right person - right place - right time that ensures access to care and supports staff functioning at the top of their scope
• Management of Veteran chronic disease conditions through ongoing assessment of conditions and recognizing changes in condition and responding with timely and correct interventions
• Establish plan of care and goals with Veteran Patient after assessing learning needs - learning preferences - readiness to learn and modify modalities of teaching when needed
• Initiate referrals to other disciplines and services as appropriate and allowed by current Nursing Protocols
• Offer preventative health measures to Veterans to include Whole Health modalities
• Apply all modalities of care available to deliver best practice to panel
• Ensure that documentation of care is complete - accurate - consistent - concise - and timely
• Encounters will be coded appropriately and timely
• Documentation will be altered to other team members as needed
• Recommend use of SOAP/SBAR models for documentation
• Implement appropriate notification processes for problematic events involving patient - family - and staff along with appropriate documentation as needed
• Utilize tools and reports to provide proactive management of Veterans with chronic disease or at high risk
• Promote - advocate for - and strive to protect the health - safety and rights of the patient
• Demonstrate responsibility and accountability for own nursing judgements and actions
• Collaborate with healthcare consumer and other key stakeholders in the conduct of nursing practice
• Develop and implement a plan to meet learning needs - instruct patients and families in basic health teaching
• Ensure application of institutional policy to protect information from unauthorized release - loss - alteration - or deletion
• Maintain competency on PPE use/donning and doffing
• Comply with safety rules and regulations for safe job performance and fire protection
• Practice safe body mechanics - use mechanical devices - and/or request help when needed when moving - lifting - or turning patients to prevent injury to patient - self - or others
• Promptly report all accidents to supervisor and notify supervisor promptly of unsafe or unhealthy environmental situations/conditions
• Correct safety hazards promptly
• Put broken equipment out of service immediately - tag as such - and follow though for appropriate disposition
• Contribute to an environment of a High Reliability Organization with a culture of safety founded on a systems approach to developing health care solutions based on prevention - not punishment - with collective mindfulness
• Responsible for environment of care (EOC) issues when duty
• Ensure - clean - safe environment
• Label ALL medications
• Verify medications refrigerator and nutrition refrigerator temperatures are within acceptable range - and cleaning logs are checked and recorded per policy
• Confirm that emergency equipment (i.e.
  
  - crash cart) is checked daily per policy and the log completed
• Ensure the EOC issues - such as items on the PCS EOC Checklist - are enforced
• Complete orientation - unit-based in-services - and mandatory educational activities in a self-directed manner
• Participate in unit based educational activities and VA continuing education requirements to increase clinical and professional knowledge
• Read Outlook email messages daily when on duty without prompting
• Read policies and other messages as directed
• Submit completed annual self-assessment to the supervisor in a timely manner by the requested deadline
• Use the proper chain of command for communication
• Collaborate with peers in completing unit workload efficiently
• Participate in unit-based performance in response to performance improvement findings
• Review and share current literature in relation to practice with co-workers
• Participate in meeting VA Performance Measures to include AES
• Other duties as assigned

• Basic Requirements:
• 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: ACEN or 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…