Regsitered Nurse - Spinal Cord Injury & Disorder (SCI/D) Telehealth Coordinator

<p>The New Mexico VA Health Care System is looking for a Registered Nurse for the Spinal Cord Injury & Disorder (SCI/D) Telehealth Service Team!</p><h3>Major Duties</h3><p>The Spinal Cord Injury & Disorders (SCI/D) Telehealth Coordinator, Registered Nurse (RN), is responsible for providing competent, evidence-based, and compassionate care to assigned patients with spinal cord injuries and related disorders. This role integrates clinical expertise with telehealth technology to deliver coordinated, patient-centered care across the continuum of service. The SCI/D Telehealth Coordinator, in collaboration with the VISN Telehealth Office maintains linkages and effective communications with the telehealth national training centers to ensure optimal care coordination and telehealth educational opportunities for facility staff. The SCI/D Telehealth Coordinator develops specific telehealth applications in collaboration with VISN and station telehealth oversight councils, clinical, administrative, and technical staff as needed. The SCI/D Telehealth Coordinator demonstrates leadership in delivering and improving holistic care through collaborative strategies with others. Duties include but not limited to the following: Organizes and facilitates the station Telehealth Oversight Committee as well as other committees and task forces as assigned. Serves and/or represents the facility on various VISN telehealth groups. Engages in outreach planning and activities, including work with potential non-VA community partners to improve access to rural and highly rural Veterans to healthcare services via telehealth initiatives and programming. Establishes guiding processes, principles, and policies for the development and implementation of patient and family centric telehealth programs at the facility, and for the operation, management and oversight of telehealth programs. Ensures functional linkages across the telehealth continuum, regarding the various telehealth clinical applications, including but not limited to telemental health, teleretinal imaging, teledermatology, home telehealth, etc. Advocates for telehealth program needs at the facility and brings matters requiring higher level intervention to the attention of facility leadership. Facilitates communication across care lines and facilities to achieve maximum fulfillment of telehealth program goals and objectives. Assures that the facility establishes and utilizes appropriate Veterans Health Administration (VHA) workload reporting and data management systems for telehealth programs. Monitors core quality and performance measures for all telehealth programs. Ensures appropriate activity coding to all sites for consistent and appropriate workload tracking and reporting. Serves as a consultant to the various facility telehealth staff to assure that best practices, appropriate clinical technology applications and successes are shared amongst telehealth programs and implemented. Develops policies and protocols for delivery of telehealth applications. Develops, tracks, and disseminates, outcome measures, including clinical data, patient and travel costs, and patient and staff satisfaction measures. Identifies alternate partnerships and funding sources for expansion of telehealth. Develops mechanisms to evaluate and monitor the quality, safety, efficiency, utilization, productivity, and effectiveness of telehealth. Ensures that the planning and implementation of telehealth installation procedures involving a variety of equipment, services, and operating techniques are coordinated by working closely with the VISN, the facility, Biomedicine, and Information Technology (IT) personnel. Evaluates practice in an ongoing process, based on best evidence. Provides peers with informal constructive feedback for improvement. Fosters a safe and supportive environment conducive to the professional development of healthcare professionals. Contributes professional nursing perspective in discussions with the interdisciplinary team. Partners with others to effect change and produce optimal outcomes. Supports colleagues through knowledge sharing to provide safe, quality nursing care. Shares educational findings, experiences, and ideas with peers. Questions clinical practices for the purpose of providing evidence-based care. 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: 7:30 am to 4:00 pm M-F Telework: Not Authorized Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized EDRP: 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 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. As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 2-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.