Rang Healthcare is seeking a travel nurse RN Long Term Care for a travel nursing job in Bath, New York.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Long Term Care
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: 09/29/2025
- Duration: 52 weeks
- 40 hours per week
- Shift: 8 hours, evenings, nights
- Employment Type: Travel
POSITION AND DUTY REQUIREMENTS
- Clinical Personnel Required: The Contractor shall provide nursing staff who are competent, qualified per this performance work statement and adequately trained to perform assigned duties. Contractors staff shall be responsible for signing in and out when in attendance. Time sheets will be used by the Nurse Manager to confirm hours/day and services provided against the contractor's invoices.
- Long Term Care Registered Nurse (RN) 8.0 FTE: The Long Term Care RN provides skilled nursing care to long term care patients with chronic illness, or disability and are not capable of caring for themselves for an extended period of time. The RN ensures patient centered, individualized care that promotes independence maximizes patient's quality of life, and ensures coordination of services to meet the patient's needs over a period of time.
- Experienced and qualified Long Term Care Registered Nurses are required to provide additional staffing for the Inpatient Long Term Care Unit at the Finger Lakes VAMC. All registered nurses shall have at least two years recent experience in long term care. VA experience is preferred.
- Educational Requirements: Minimum of Associate's Degree in Nursing (AND) or Bachelor's Degree in Nursing or a Master's Degree in Nursing. Contract nurses are preferred to have experience in long term care and accreditation through the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
- A current CPR/BLS certificate by the American Heart Association is required prior to starting work at FLHCS
- A functional statement for contract CLC RNs can be found at D.1. The functional statement must be signed by each contract RN and returned to the VA when the candidate is presented for consideration. Failure to provide the functional statement may result in a delay in the candidate review process.
Supervisory Control: The Contract Registered Nurse is accountable to the Nurse Manager within the Community Living Center unit (CLC).
Qualifications: Minimum of Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) or bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) is preferred. Experience in Geriatrics and Extended Care and rehabilitation is preferred.
Responsibilities:
a. Utilizes the nursing process in managing, developing, implementing, and evaluating each resident's individual plan of care with the interdisciplinary team to attain specific clinical outcomes.
b. Provides a full range of nursing care to residents with a variety of physical and/or behavioral problems.
c. Demonstrates leadership in delivering and improving holistic care through collaborative strategies with others.
d. Participates in quality improvement activities and the evaluation of caregiver issues
e. Assesses learning needs of veterans, caregivers, and staff.
f. Works collaboratively with all levels of health care professional and support staff to facilitate positive resident care outcomes.
g. Effectively communicates with veterans, caregivers, visitors, and members of the interdisciplinary team
h. Guides and direct resident care delivery of support staff
i. Administration & Monitoring of Medications
j. BLS certification is required for this position and must be obtained prior to hire
k. Compliance with various Isolation Precautions and Infection Control Guidelines
l. Skills in time management, priority setting, assessment and urgent intervention are essential for this unit
m. Advanced Vascular Access Care (PICC/Ports) and Maintenance
n. Trach care
o. Maintains prevention & management of disruptive behavior skills, can be trained upon hire
p. Patient and caregiver education and support.
q. Participation in High Reliability Organization (HRO) & professional governance initiatives
r. Promotes evidence-based best practices and nurse sensitive indicators (including but not limited to Falls Prevention, Infection Prevention, Medication error prevention, Safe Patient Handling, and Skin Safety.)
QUALIFICATIONS:
Staff
License: Licensed personnel assigned by the Contractor to perform services covered by this contract shall be currently certified or licensed, as appropriate, in any State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States or the District of Columbia. All licenses held by the personnel working on this contract shall be fully valid and without restriction. The qualifications of such personnel shall also be subject to review by the VA Nurse Executive and by the VA Facility Director. The Government specifically reserves the right to reject and of the Contractor's personnel and refuse them permission to provide services under this contract.
Technical Proficiency: Contractors staff shall be technically proficient in the skills necessary to fulfill the government's requirements, including the ability to speak, understand, read and write English fluently. Contractor shall provide verifiable evidence of all educational and training experiences including any gaps in educational history for all Contractors staff and all Contractors staff shall be responsible for abiding by the Facility's Medical Staff By-Laws, rules, and regulations (referenced herein) that govern medical staff behavior.
HOURS OF OPERATION
VA Business Hours: 24/7, including evenings, nights, weekends and Federal Holidays.
Work Schedule: Contractor will be required to provide nursing staff to perform services at FLHCS. The schedule may change based on the need of the Government. All changes will be made through contract modifications. Staff will be offered to work either straight eight (8) hour shifts or twelve (12) hour shifts with one (1) eight (8) hour tour every two weeks. The following schedule options applies (note: if assigned to Bath CLC5 unit there is a special schedule set):
8 hour shifts
RN ? Long term care (CLC)
Site: Bath
2:00 PM ?10:30 PM
(Evenings)
Rotating Weekends, Federal Holidays, Full-time
RN ? Long Term Care (CLC)
Site: Bath
10:00 PM ? 6:30 AM
(Nights)
Rotating Weekends, Federal Holidays, Full-time
RN ? Long term care (CLC)
Site: Bath
6 x 12 6:00 PM ? 6:30 AM 1 X 2:00 PM ?10:30 PM (Evenings)
Rotating Weekends, Federal Holidays, Full-time
RN ? Long Term Care (CLC)
Site: Bath
6 x 12 6:00 PM ? 6:30 AM 1 X 10:00 PM ? 6:30 AM (Nights)
Rotating Weekends, Federal Holidays, Full-time
- Contractor will have a 1?2 hour unpaid break each shift.
- There may be occasional overtime, pre-approved, at the discretion of the Nurse Manager and nursing leadership.
- The VA will provide shift confirmations to the contractor and contract staff 14 days in advance.
- Contract staff may be scheduled to work on Federal Holidays. Contract staff only receive Holiday pay on the actual Federal Holiday itself. "In lieu of Holidays? are Regular Time, not Holiday Pay.
- Contract staff will receive Holiday Pay for the entire shift worked.
- Contractors will work 8:00 AM ? 4:30 PM on a weekday during their initial Orientation. Typically, initial Orientation lasts 2 days. Upon completion of initial Orientation, contractor will continue to be oriented on the assigned unit according to their scheduled shifts.
- The VA reserves the right to move contractor staff to other CLC locations within the same clinical setting depending on the coverage required by the VA.
- Contract nurses will be scheduled to work at one site only.
- Agencies will communicate all planned leave for the first 13-weeks for new contractors when presenting candidates to the medical center; anything planned after the first 13-weeks will be coordinated with the Nurse Manager or designee.
- Copies of all licenses for all licensed and certified staff
- BLS Certification: Must be issued "By the American Heart Association?
- Current CV to include education, work experience and background information
“We are an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide employment, compensation, and other benefits related to employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, national or ethnic origin, disability, veteran status, age, genetic information, citizenship, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.”
About Rang Healthcare
Founded in 2005, Rang Healthcare (a division of Rang Technologies Inc) has been staffing clients for over 17 years for administrative, nursing and IT/Systems. Rang Healthcare offers extensive recruiting experience in a cost-effective manner. We help institutions successfully reduce complexity, boost productivity, and enhance patient outcomes.
We provide the specialized talent and expertise you require, whether it’s for a direct hire, contract-to-hire, or contract position. It is now even more vital to collaborate with a firm that has the knowledge and expertise to provide the best in class and most qualified personnel. You can count on the Rang Healthcare for talent acquisition.
We are an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide employment, compensation, and other benefits related to employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, national or ethnic origin, disability, veteran status, age, genetic information, citizenship, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Benefits
- 401k retirement plan
- Dental benefits
- Referral bonus
- Vision benefits
- Weekly pay
