Salem VA Medical Center Nursing Opportunities

At the VA Salem Medical Center, our health care teams are deeply experienced and guided by the needs of Veterans, their families and their caregivers. Our facility provides routine care management to urgent care for our veterans. Since 1934 the VAMC in Salem has been improving the health and wellness of the men and women who have so proudly served our country from every branch in the United States military. Our health care services have been provided to more than 112,500 veterans living in a 26-county area of southwestern Virginia.

The Salem VA Medical Center provides comprehensive health care, which includes addiction and substance abuse care, blind and low vision rehabilitation, COVID-19 vaccines, cardiology, caregiver support, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology/oncology, homeless Veteran care, infectious disease, LGBTQ+ Veteran care, mental health care, nephrology, neurology, ophthalmology, optometry, otolaryngology, palliative and hospice care, patient advocates, pharmacy, podiatry, primary care, pulmonary medicine, radiology, rehabilitation and extended care, returning service member care, rheumatology, sleep medicine, social work, spinal cord injury and disorders, suicide prevention, urgent care, urology, vocational rehabilitation and employment programs, whole health and women Veteran care.

Requirements:

• 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 preoperative 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

Terms:

13-week contracts with extensions. KurzSolutions is committed to improving health outcomes by providing well-managed companies with the top healthcare talent in the market.