Registered Nurse - Pain Clinic

Department of Veterans Affairs • Milwaukee, WI

48d • Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse (RN) - Pain Clinic provides specialized care in the assessment, planning, implementing and evaluation of care throughout the peri procedure continuum to include the Pre procedure Phase, Post procedure Phase, and extended care from sedation/analgesia and/or anesthesia for surgical, diagnostic, or therapeutic procedures.

Requirements

• Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

Responsibilities

• Possess knowledge related to the physiology associated with various anesthesia techniques, procedures and surgical interventions.
• Perform clinical assessment of the patient and readily recognizes contraindication for anesthesia, procedures, and/or surgical intervention.
• Assess and prepare patients for procedures appropriately.
• Apply the appropriate post sedation scoring and assess the patient's postoperative status.
• Responsible for ensuring comprehensive documenting of all phases of care and is timely, complete, and accurate in the electronic health record (EHR).
• May be required to perform on-call duties.
• Apply patient, family, and caregiver knowledge, values, and beliefs into care delivery without judgement or discrimination.

Benefits

• Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards
• Paid Time Off: Up to 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)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Administration of Human Resource Programs
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees