Nursing careers | veterans affairs

VALUES AND CLINICAL SERVICES Nursing is vital in every component of our integrated healthcare system and we value the importance of supporting nurses to practice to the top of their license

and remain active participants in the quality healthcare that is provided throughout our organization. We value accountability, respect, continuous improvement, collaboration, compassion,

trust and commitment to each other and to our mission to serve. We support staff engagement and development through professional governance embedded within our model of nursing care. VA

Pittsburgh Health Care System is a Complexity Level-1A tertiary teaching health care organization providing an array of inpatient and outpatient multidisciplinary care in a service-line

structure including Primary Care, Specialty/Surgical Care, Mental Health and Rehabilitation and Extended Care services. We are home to 12 inpatient units (including ICU, stepdown,

telemetry/med surg, polytrauma/acute rehab, psychiatric and extended rehab units). Other services include spinal cord injury and disorder (SCI/D), primary and specialty medicine (neurology,

cardiology/cath lab, hematology/oncology), level III Emergency Department, OR and hybrid OR suites and 13 VA Community Clinics. Extended level of skilled nursing care is provided in the

Community Living Center. Home-based primary care (HBPC), SCI/D home care and mental health intensive case management (MHICM) is provided in the Veteran’s home.