Virtual Care Nurse

About the role

As our Virtual Care RN, you will revolutionize patient care by leveraging cutting-edge technology to deliver expert nursing guidance across our health system. You will provide real-time virtual inter-collaborative nursing assistance to on-site care teams nationwide, supporting admissions, discharges, transitions of care, and vital support tasks for diverse patient needs.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate virtually with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare team members to provide clinical patient care, including virtual assessment of medical, physical, and psychological patient status and responding to routine, urgent, and emergent patient issues.
• Proactively oversee the patient care plan to implement preventive measures that improve patient safety and quality of care delivered via telemedicine technology and surveillance of physiological trends.
• Drive risk reduction through participation in root cause analysis (RCAs), quality surveillance, and compilation and interpretation of large data sets of patient information.
• Effectively coordinate communication with members of the bedside interdisciplinary team.
• Supervise the comprehensive care of patients through coaching and mentoring bedside nurses and other care team members.
• Collaborate with unit leadership and provide oversight of unit quality programs and metrics; ensure evidence-based practices are followed to provide the highest quality care and safety for patients.
• Support management to ensure all aspects of clinical operations are conducted and documented in compliance with relevant internal policies, standards/procedures, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Continuously assess services, patient outcomes, quality control, and family/patient satisfaction to ensure optimal care and delivery.
• Ensure internal controls are sufficient to provide for accurate, complete, and compliant programs and processes.

Requirements

• Graduate of an RN nursing program.
• Registered Nurse: NE/IA or compact license.
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
• Minimum 3-5 years in clinical focus.
• Minimum 1-3 years leadership experience (e.g., Charge RN or related experience).
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) within 5 months of hire.
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) within 30 days of hire.

Qualifications

• MedSurg/PCU/ICU experience within the last 2 years (preferred).
• Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) (preferred).

Where You'll Work

CHI Health St. Elizabeth, founded by the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration in 1889, is a full-service, 260-bed, nonprofit regional medical center in Lincoln, Nebraska. St. Elizabeth specializes in newborn and pediatric care, women’s health, burn and wound care, cardiology, oncology, emergency medicine, orthopedics, and neuroscience.

Pay

$36.00 - $52.20 per hour.