Virtual Care Nurse

About the Role

As a Virtual Care RN supporting CHI Health St. Elizabeth Hospital in Lincoln, NE, 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, handling admissions, discharges, transitions of care, and vital support tasks for diverse patient needs. This transformative role requires expert knowledge, unwavering reliability, and articulate communication, serving as a critical virtual extension of our patient care teams to ensure exceptional outcomes across a spectrum of diagnoses.

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.
• Respond to routine, urgent, and emergent patient issues.
• Proactively oversee the patient care plan to implement preventive measures improving patient safety and quality of care via telemedicine technology and surveillance of physiological trends.
• Drive risk reduction through participation in root cause analysis (RCA’s), quality surveillance, and compilation/interpretation of large patient data sets.
• Coordinate communication with bedside interdisciplinary teams.
• Supervise comprehensive patient care through coaching and mentoring bedside nurses and other care team members.
• Collaborate with unit leadership to oversee unit quality programs and metrics, ensuring evidence-based practices are followed.
• Support management to ensure clinical operations comply with internal policies, standards, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• Continuously assess services, patient outcomes, quality control, and family/patient satisfaction to ensure optimal care and delivery.
• Ensure internal controls are sufficient 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).
• 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

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

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.