Registered Nurse High Risk Care Manager

About the role

To improve the care primary care teams can offer their most complex Veterans at highest risk for adverse outcomes. Providing the best care for our most vulnerable Veterans is an important part of the mission of all health care teams serving the VHA.

Responsibilities

• Establishing nursing diagnoses.
• Providing health education and procedural teaching to patients and significant others.
• Administering and evaluating pharmacological and other therapeutic treatment regimens.
• Administering medicine
• Administering Injections - Vaccines etc.
• Establishing priorities and making ethically-sound decisions to ensure safe patient care.
• Assisting the physicians during diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to promote optimal patient outcomes by team collaboration.
• Responding to emergency situations to promote optimal patient outcomes by recognizing changes in patients' health status.
• Performing diagnostic studies within the scope of nursing practice as ordered by the physician.
• Documenting patient data to ensure continuity in the provision and coordination of patient care.
• Utilize risk stratification and population health reports to identify these populations and their prominent needs.
• Responsible for providing competent, evidence-based care to assigned patients and overseeing licensed vocational nurses/nursing assistants, as appropriate to the setting.
• Collaborating with other health care professionals.
• Collaborates with the care team, implements care plans, delivers evidence-based interventions, communicates with the veteran and their family, and facilitates the phasing of care and services to support health goals.
• Communicating with veterans and family members regarding veteran's care.
• May be responsible for charge nurse duties.
• Managing follow-up care.
• Completing comprehensive assessments, providing referrals to service resources, managing the delivery of labor-intensive services, and ensuring appropriate documentation and scheduling.
• Acting as a resource to others.
• Participating in continuing educational activities, achieving/maintaining certification.

Requirements

The individual will assist in directing the provision of nursing education, orientation, competencies and providing quality improvement and outcomes utilization consultation.

Possess knowledge of unit level performance measures and participates in quality improvement monitoring.

Skills

Preferred Experience: Acute Care experience and/or previous Ambulatory Care experience

Benefits

Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards

Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Pay

Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards

Schedule

Work Schedule: Day Shift, Monday-Friday

Qualifications

Basic Requirements:

• English Language Proficiency.
• 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 Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE); OR Individuals attending a master's level bridge program in nursing who have completed coursework equivalent to a bachelor's level degree in Nursing may have opportunity to become registered as a nurse with a state licensing board prior to completion of the bridge program. Upon achievement of a State license, the individual may be appointed on temporary basis and later converted to a permanent appointment upon successful completion and graduation from the bridge program. (Reference VA Handbook 5005, Appendix G6); OR In cases of graduates of foreign schools of professional nursing, possession of a current, full, active, and unrestricted registration will meet the requirement for graduation from an approved school of professional nursing to warrant an appointment as a Nurse who has completed an associated degree/entry level Nursing education program. Credit for foreign nursing education higher that associate degree/entry level requires a formal degree equivalency validation from a recognized equivalency evaluation accepted by VA such as International Consultants of Delaware (ICD).
• Current, full, active, and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a State, Territory or Commonwealth (i.e., Puerto Rico) of the United States, or the District of Columbia. Graduate Nurse Technician (GNT) Exception: Candidates who otherwise meet the basic education requirements, but do not possess the required licensure, may be appointed at the entry step of the grade and level applicable to the completed nursing education as a GNT on a 120-day temporary appointment while actively pursuing licensure (may be extended up to two years on a case-by-case-basis.)