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Summary The Psychiatric Unit Nurse Manager (NM) is responsible for providing oversight and management in the assessment, diagnosing, observation, planning, and evaluation of nursing services. The NM has the designated first-line supervisory authority, responsibility, and accountability for the 24/7 operations of the unit, ensuring that subordinate personnel provide timely nursing care which complies with generally accepted standards of clinical practice. Responsibilities Duties are but not limited to: The NM demonstrates leadership, experience, and creative approaches in delivering and improving holistic care through collaborative strategies with others. The NM, in collaboration with the Education Department, develops, coordinates, and provides ongoing education to nursing personnel for knowledge and skills enhancement while ensuring clinical competence. The Nurse Manager is responsible for ensuring appropriate resource utilization and staffing and skill mix for the unit. Additionally, the NM ensures systems are in place to promote patient and staff safety and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. The NM responsible for maintaining a therapeutic milieu for patients that promotes mental and physical wellness and fosters disease prevention/condition management. The NM works professionally and collaboratively, with the Associate Chief Nurse of Mental Health and others to advance unit and organizational needs respective of facility, VISN and national strategic plans. The NM demonstrates skills and knowledge of a wide variety of Psychiatric/Behavioral Health theories, modalities, assessments, planning, and interventions. The NM oversees care for a range of psychiatric diagnoses and serves Veterans that may exhibit behavioral symptoms such as aggression, combativeness, severe depression, suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation, hallucinations, paranoia, and/or multiple medical problems. The NM considers all characteristics of the individual, including sex and role identification, age, life stage, state of health, race, culture, socio-economic status, values, and beliefs to assist each patient with the improvement of their health status to the maximum potential. The NM utilizes core elements of performance improvement processes. Additionally, the NM is responsible for administrative and clinical issues, performance improvement, customer service/patient satisfaction, patient, and employee safety, interviewing applicants, employee relations, standards of care and practice, the work environment, and accreditation and regulatory standards. The NM actively develops and manages collaborative partnerships with physicians and other clinicians throughout the facility, Education Department, and other staff. The NM evaluates quality indicators of performance and implements intervention, policy, and strategies for improvement. 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: Full-time; 80 hrs. (0700-1630). Tour subject to change depending on the needs of facility. May require occasional weekends and holidays. Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required Requirements Conditions of Employment 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. You may be required to serve a probationary period. Subject to background/security investigation. Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. 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). Participation in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination program is a requirement for all Veterans Health Administration Health Care Personnel (HCP) - See "Additional Information" below for details. Qualifications 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: 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-ba
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