RN- Emergency - COVID19

RN - ICU
COVID-19 Response

VA Northern California Health Care System (VANCHCS) is an integrated health care delivery system, offering medical, surgical, rehabilitative, mental health, and extended care to Veterans across Northern California. The health system is made up of 12 sites of care, including a medical center in Sacramento; a rehabilitation and extended care facility in Martinez, and 10 outpatient clinics.

VANCHCS has two divisions, each led by an associate director. The Sacramento Valley Division includes medical facilities in Sacramento (McClellan Park and Mather), Auburn, Chico, Redding, and Yreka, and the East Bay Division includes medical facilities in Fairfield, Vallejo, Martinez, and Oakland.

VANCHCS serves an area covering 17 counties, about 30,000 square miles, and about 175,000 Veterans.

LOCATIONS:
Valley Division - Sacramento VA Medical Center
10535 Hospital Way
Mather, CA 95655
916-843-7000 | 855-771-9321
East Bay Division - Martinez Outpatient Clinic
150 Muir Road
Martinez, CA 94553
925-372-2000 | 800-382-8387
San Francisco VA Health Care System
4150 Clement Street
San Francisco, CA 94121
415-221-4810 | 877-487-2838
Central California - Fresno VA Medical Center
2615 East Clinton Avenue
Fresno, CA 93703-2223
559-225-6100

Requirements (Duties include but are not limited to)

• Providing professional nursing care principles, practices and procedures required to assess needs of patients;
• Knowledge of pharmaceuticals, their desired effects, side effects, and complications of their use; recognizing adverse signs and symptoms which are not always apparent and to react promptly in emergency situations including the implementation of life saving procedures;
• Providing counseling, guidance and health instruction to patients; and
• Identifying disease entities in order to recognize complications and therapeutic interventions required.
• Provide professional nursing duties according to established professional nursing principles, practices, and procedures in an ICU setting, assessing patient's physical, emotional, spiritual and socio-cultural needs;
• Demonstrate skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patient served; provides pre-operative and post-operative nursing care to patients;

Qualifications

• Candidates must possess a bachelor's degree in Nursing and eligibility under the Superior Academic Achievement provision -OR- Possess of a bachelor's degree in Nursing and at least one full year of professional nursing experience-OR- Possess a diploma or associate degree in professional nursing
• Must possess a current, valid, unrestricted nursing license in a state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a Territory of the United States.
• Must have a minimum of 12 months experience in an intensive care environment during the last 36 months
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) as approved by the American Heart Association (AHA) is mandatory for all specialties.
• Evidence of current immunizations is required

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