Registered Nurse (O-2/O-3/O-4 Billet) Non-Supervisory

The Registered Nurse provides advanced nursing care to ICE detainees, including assessments, triage, medication administration, emergency response, and patient education. Responsibilities include leadership roles such as Charge Nurse or Team Lead, mentoring, and process development. The role requires clinical expertise, adaptability, and the ability to work in a multidisciplinary team in a detention setting.

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

COMPETENCIES:

1. Cultural Competency.
2. Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills.
3. Active listening skills.
4. Demonstrates strong oral and written communication skills.
5. Integrity/Honesty.
6. Adult learner teaching skills.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

1. Requires physical exertion such as lifting objects greater than 30 pounds.
2. Must have the ability to assist sick, injured or aging detainees or staff exiting the building (may require lifting, dragging, wheeling or carrying someone who weighs significantly more than self).
3. The work may necessitate some physical characteristics that will be required when responding to an emergency situation, such as running short distance, prolonged standing and working in an austere environment.
4. Required to perform CPR/emergency care standing or kneeling.

Education:

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES (O-2 Billet):

1. Must be a Bachelor prepared Registered Nurse. 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 zero to two years' professional nursing experience.
7. Professional credentials/Certification appropriate to current job specialty.
8. 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.
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. Sufficient interpersonal skills to develop a rapport with patients and coworkers during which instructional and patient health educational information is presented.
11. Requirements for safety, infection control, quality assurance, maintenance of records of patients seen, statistical information gathering, etc.
12. Spanish language proficiency preferred, not required.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES (O-3 Billet):

1. Must be a Bachelor prepared Registered Nurse. 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 two to four years' professional nursing experience.
7. Knowledge of a wide range of complex 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. 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 nursing management and leadership skills.
12. Knowledge of team building principles.
13. Knowledge of forensic nursing concepts and principles.
14. Intermediate knowledge of computerized data base, sources, and reporting methodologies.
15. Flexibility and ability to adapt to sudden changes in schedules and work requirements.
16. Spanish language proficiency preferred, not required.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES (O-4 Billet):

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 coworkers 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.

Employment Type: OTHER