Registered Nurse (O-4 Billet) Non-Supervisory

This position is located within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), ICE Health Service Corps (IHSC), Office of Deputy Assistant Director of Clinical Services. The incumbent will be supervised by the Nurse Manager, the Health Services Administrator and Clinical Director. This is a non-supervisory position.

This position is only open to USPHS officers and Call to Active Duty (CAD) candidates.

Qualifications

Education

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

1. Bachelor or Masters prepared Registered Nurse; Masters preferred. Must be licensed by a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or territory of the United States.
2. Knowledge of the Nurse Practice Act for the licensing state and/or the state in which one practices nursing.
3. Maintains current/documented professional license.
4. Maintains current CPR/BLS certification.
5. Maintains USPHS Basic Readiness status.
6. Minimum of 4 years' experience, begin graduate level education-preferred, (O-3 for two years), must have two years Registered Nurse II, Clinical Nurse Intermediate.
7. Knowledge of a wide range of nursing concepts, principles, and practices to perform nursing assessments of considerable diversity to include mental health, medical surgical, ambulatory and emergency nursing care.
8. Professional credentials/Certification appropriate to current job specialty.
9. Knowledge of medication, administration guidelines, and pharmaceutical agents and their desired and adverse effects in order to recognize untoward effects and take appropriate corrective measures.
10. Comprehensive knowledge of managing non-compliant patients, special needs populations, and patients with significant deficits in coping skills, thereby requiring continuing professional clinical support.
11. Knowledge of requirements for safety, infection control, quality assurance, maintenance of records of patients seen, statistical information gathering, etc.
12. Training methods and sufficient interpersonal skills to develop a rapport with patients and co-workers during which instructional and educational information is presented.
13. Knowledge or experience of nursing management and leadership skills.
14. Knowledge of teaching patient health education skills.
15. Knowledge of team building principles.
16. Knowledge of forensic nursing concepts and principles.
17. Advanced knowledge of computerized data base, sources, and reporting methodologies.
18. Flexibility and ability to adapt to sudden changes in schedules and work requirements.
19. Spanish language proficiency preferred, not required.

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