Long Term Care Registered Nurse

Job Summary

Job Title: Long-Term Care Nurse Location: Miami VA Healthcare System (including 7 Community-Based Outpatient Clinics) Period of Performance: 08/12/2025 – 08/11/2030 Shift Schedule: PRN; Twelve (12) hour shifts 7:30-8:00; day shift vs night shift Position Description: The Long-Term Care Registered Nurse (RN) delivers comprehensive nursing care to residents across three long-term care units. The RN is responsible for providing individualized, age-specific care that focuses on enhancing quality of life, promoting comfort, and supporting residents' health needs throughout their stay. This role requires strong clinical skills, compassionate care delivery, and effective communication to meet the unique needs of long-term care residents and their families in a supportive and patient-centered environment.

Primary Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities: Unit Description: The long-term care division is comprised of three (3) long-term care units of which two (2) are 45 beds with both long-term and short-stay residents, and one (1) with ten (10) beds that provide hospice and palliative care. Skills: The Long-Term Care registered nurse is responsible and accountable for all elements of the nursing process when providing and/or supervising direct patient care. • Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates care based on age-specific components • Assumes responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient transition through the continuum of care • Provides family education • Takes responsibility for patient ADLs (activities of daily living), assessments, BCMA medication and procedures per established policies and guidelines (i.e.) • Barcode medication and administration, IV therapy, blood transfusion, monitor blood pressure, weight and hydration • Administration of tube feeding • Management of behavioral patients • Participate in interdisciplinary team participation • Complete admissions, discharges, and internal and external transfers • Delegate to ancillary staff • Completion of electronic medical record documentation • Patient transport • Emergency response procedures.

Minimum Qualifications

Requirements: • BLS certification accredited by the American Heart Association (AHA) • Unrestricted license to practice nursing in one of the States, Territories, or Commonwealths of the United States or the District of Columbia• Experience: Minimum of three (3) years of current nursing experience, including experience within a long-term care unit. • Education: ASN accepted; BSN preferred  Education must have been completed at a school accredited by the ACEN or CCNE.

Physical Requirements

Physical Requirements: This role requires the ability to stand, walk, and move throughout patient care areas for extended periods, often during long shifts. The employee must be able to lift, transfer, or reposition patients and equipment up to 50 pounds, with or without assistance, and frequently bend, kneel, reach, and push or pull wheeled equipment. The role also requires manual dexterity for tasks such as administering medication, operating medical equipment, and documenting patient care, as well as the ability to respond quickly in emergency situations. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this role.

About Aptive

Arrow ARC supports Veterans Health Administration facilities and offices across the U.S. with health care staffing and program support via the 10-year Integrated Critical Staffing Program (ICSP). We provide staffing solutions to address critical shortages in VHA medical facilities caused by turnover, recruitment issues, seasonal needs, surges or emergencies.

Arrow is a certified Service-Disabled, Veteran-Owned Small Business joint venture between Artemis ARC and Aptive Resources, two award-winning companies that share an agile, mission-focused, results driven approach in the federal sector.​ Arrow provides management consulting services and specializes in working with federal government agencies like the Department of Veterans Affairs and Office of Personnel Management.​

EEO Statement

Aptive is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, parental status, veteran status, age, disability, or any other protected class.

Veterans, members of the Reserve and National Guard, and transitioning active-duty service members are highly encouraged to apply.