Registered Nurse (Orthopedic Dept)
About The Position
GDIT's Military Health Team is seeking highly skilled Orthopedic Registered Nurses to deliver high-quality musculoskeletal and post-operative care within the Military Treatment Facility setting. This is an opportunity to support active-duty service members, veterans, and their families at one of the nation’s most respected military medical centers. The role involves supporting musculoskeletal patients throughout the continuum of care and contributing to a high-performing clinical environment. Key duties include functioning in the Charge Nurse role as needed, coordinating patient care with multidisciplinary providers, supporting optimal clinical outcomes that prioritize quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness, and ensuring compliance with MTF standards, policies, and evidence-based practices. The position also requires conducting physical exams, obtaining comprehensive health histories, providing patient education, counseling, and health promotion, administering medications, performing wound care, and delivering other targeted nursing interventions. Additionally, the role involves making patient care assignments aligned with staff competencies and scope of practice, recognizing adverse signs/symptoms and responding appropriately in emergency situations, communicating effectively with diverse teams, patients, and families to support care coordination, arranging specialty referrals and follow-up appointments, performing nursing duties outlined in the Task Order, and participating in research efforts to support improved patient outcomes.
Requirements
- Associate Degree in Nursing
- Graduate of an ACEN ‑ or CCNE ‑accredited nursing program
- 1 year of RN experience within the last 2 years
- Active, unrestricted RN license
- US Citizen or Green Card holder based on contract language
- Must be able to obtain NACLC (T3) clearance
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of orthopedic nursing practices strongly preferred
Responsibilities
- Functioning in the Charge Nurse role as needed
- Coordinating patient care with multidisciplinary providers
- Supporting optimal clinical outcomes that prioritize quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness
- Ensuring compliance with MTF standards, policies, and evidence-based practices
- Conducting physical exams and obtaining comprehensive health histories
- Providing patient education, counseling, and health promotion
- Administering medications, performing wound care, and delivering other targeted nursing interventions
- Making patient care assignments aligned with staff competencies and scope of practice
- Recognizing adverse signs/symptoms and responding appropriately in emergency situations
- Communicating effectively with diverse teams, patients, and families to support care coordination
- Arranging specialty referrals and follow-up appointments
- Performing nursing duties outlined in the Task Order
- Participating in research efforts to support improved patient outcomes
Benefits
- Comprehensive and competitive benefits
- 401K with company match
- Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
- Diverse, highly collaborative teams
- Encourages professional and personal development to position employees for success
- Variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- Vision plan
- 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
- Full flex work weeks where possible
- Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
- Short and long-term disability benefits
- Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
