Registered Nurse - Care Coordinator

<p>The Registered Nurse will deliver fundamental knowledge-based care to assigned clients while developing technical skills - Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care based on age-specific components.</p><h3>Major Duties</h3><p>Duties JOA - Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following: Focus on individual growth and development in practice with increased levels of self-direction. Bring principles and theory with limited application to critical thinking skills. Provide patient management, care coordination, and discharge/disposition planning for inpatient and outpatient settings. Assist Veterans, family members, and caregivers with receiving the most appropriate options and services to meet their complex health care needs - including but not limited to, acute, chronic, multiple, complex, catastrophic, or life-threatening illnesses; combat stress, residuals of traumatic brain injury; community adjustment; addictions and other health problems. Coordinate care with multiple providers across all levels and sites of care. Assure services interface within the Veteran Affairs (VA) and community programs to provide continuity of care to patients. Address pyschosocial, as well as nursing and medical needs of patients and their families/caregivers, through participation with the interdisciplinary care team. Coordinate and expedite care from diagnosis to treatment. Analyze and manage laboratory and radiology results and provide information to the providers. Utilize databases to provide population management to track patient care through all episodes of care. Evaluate care outcomes to ensure timely and appropriate provision of services. Advocate for holistic care through patient/family education and provider interaction and implement and educational plan to meet the patient care needs. Responsible to the assigned rating and approving supervisors and is accountable to the Associate Chief Nurse of Perioperative Service. 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: Full-Time, 7:00am-3:30pm, Monday-Friday Telework: Not available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized https://youtu.be/LM35k1p_3Tc?si=6wdZw0Lag331XBMR</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 examination. 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.