Anybody familar with the VA's nine dimensions?

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I am a new nurse and just got hired with the VA pending my nine dimensions of nursing. I am not familar with this at all and need some help. I have tried to look on the internet for help and have not had much luck. Where do I start? I am getting really frustrated. Please somebody!!!!!!! :banghead:

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Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.

Hello, turtletyme,

Have you asked them what this is and what is expected of you? I am not familiar with VA requirements.

There are courses in Clinical Dimensions of Nursing Practice, but not sure if this applies here or not.

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Specializes in Medical surgical, women's health,tele..

The nine dimensions are:practice, quality of care, performance,education/career development, collegiality,ethics,collaboration,research, and resource utilization. Once you answer each of these in a paragraph or more this is suppose to help the VA figure out at what level your salary will start. The more examples that I can provide the better it will be. I read somewhere the nine dimensions were established by the Nurse Professional Standards Boards .

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Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.

This is from '99, but might assist you getting started; from Department of Veterans Affairs

http://www1.va.gov/nursing/docs/NrsQS.pdf

As I said, there are courses in the clnical dimensions of nursing practice and you might find some info googling that, too.

Good luck. Hope things work out well for you.

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Specializes in Medical surgical, women's health,tele..

Thanks for the info.

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Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.

You are welcome.

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I'm about to interview with the VA. The manager who called to request an interview only briefly mentioned that there would be some questions about "research and ethics, etc.". I'll be ready to fire off some paragraphs now that I've read your post! I would really appreciate any further info about the nature of the questions.

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