Registered Nurse Care Coordinator (Allergy)

<p>The VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System is recruiting for an Registered Nurse Care Coordinator (Allergy). The Registered Nurse Care Coordinator (Allergy) will function in Medicine Service.</p><h3>Major Duties</h3><p>To include but not limited to: Allergy Case Manager Specific Duties: Triages allergy consults and helps to schedule appointments with Pulmonary care providers after consultation with team members. Also ensures timely follow-up appointments are made. Provides education for patients and families. May include addressing questions regarding injections, inhalers, procedures, treatments, symptoms, and terminology; and discussing, explaining, and reviewing recommendations of the Pulmonary provider. Also, provides education and resources to promote safe allergen management. Provides timely communication of test results. If necessary, facilitates communication of results to or from outside providers. Provides outreach to patients and families of patients with allergy care needs. Monitors and maintains allergy clinic inventory, including testing supplies, medications and medication delivery supplies, and emergency management resources. Provides allergy-specific direct patient care according to standard protocols, including allergen skin testing and administration of immunotherapy. General Duties: Ongoing, continuous care of one or more assigned panel(s) of Veterans. Functioning at the full extent of the team member's relevant clinical privileges, credentials, scopes of practice, elements of practice, certification, functional statement, position description, or other VHA or local facility approved documentation of competency. Provides direct and indirect patient care and collaborates with primary care providers as well as specialty care providers to ensure continuity of care both inpatient and outpatient. Assesses learning needs of patients and families, and plans, implements, evaluates, and documents individual teaching plans according to established protocols. Prioritizes patient care and other duties to meet the changing needs of patients. Serves as patient advocate and assists in maintaining quality care for veterans. Processes and triages telephone inquiries from patients and families regarding changes, inpatient condition, and treatment plans. Recognizes complex situations that impact patient care and intervenes, using sound judgment, professional attitude and appropriate channels. Participates in team performance improvement and sustainment activities to optimize team efficiency and care delivery to patients. Engaging patients in using health care, encouraging patients to engage personal support persons, receiving input from patients and personal support persons regarding VA care. Collaborating with informatics technology staff to develop and implement systematized, electronically supported, standardized, tools to support care delivery processes (e.g., pre- visit reminder calls, post-hospitalization follow-up calls, recall scheduling procedures, new patient orientation, disease registries Participating in modes of communication both formal and informal effective , timely and bidirectional with all team members and care delivery including, but not limited to, secure messaging, telephone care, view alerts management, shared medical appointments, clinical video telehealth visits, face to face visits, etc. As part of care management, identifying patient needs for involvement of discipline-specific team members and discussing nursing recommendations with the primary pulmonologist. Assuming full accountability for the appropriateness of assignments made by the RNCM to clinical associates or administrative associates related to care management, care coordination, nursing services, and outcomes of care. Entering orders in CPRS for tests/prosthetic items per approved standardized RN care management protocols or pulmonary provider orders. Using nursing expertise, evidence-based guidelines, standardized nursing protocols, and professionally accepted practice standards to promote patient engagement, self-care and wellness, provide care to patients and determine care management requirements for individual patients or cohorts of patients. VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards Pay: 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) Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory Work Schedule: Monday through Friday: 7:30am-4:00pm Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized</p><h3>Requirements</h3>U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA. Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959. Subject to background/security investigation. Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents). Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment. Must pass pre-employment physical evaluation. Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). You may be required to serve a probationary period. Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.