Registered Nurse - Surgery Clinical Resource Nurse

The Surgery Clinical Resource Nurse (CRN) is a Registered Nurse (RN) in the Outpatient Surgery Unit, Operating Room (OR) and Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) who provides care and counseling for the patient undergoing surgery and invasive procedures. The CRN is a professional nurse with a broad based clinical knowledge that enables him/her to effectively provide peri-operative nursing care to a Veteran population with widely diverse diagnoses and symptoms.

Basic Requirements: English Language Proficiency. In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7403(f), no person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English. Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate accrediting agency and accredited by one of the following accrediting bodies at the time the program was completed by the applicant: The Accreditation Commis