Nurse Care Manager

Job Title

Nurse

Duties

This nurse provides gender-specific direct veteran care and care coordination, as it pertains, to veterans and their care within the primary care department. Duties include, but are not limited to:

1. Leads and organizes delivery of care to ensure continuity of care and peer accountability for practice in alignment with the ANA standards of nursing practice.
2. Applies advanced clinical knowledge/judgment to lead staff involvement in planning, decision-making, and evaluating outcomes beyond the immediate practice setting.
3. Applies nursing expertise to lead improvement, with demonstrated outcomes, beyond the immediate practice setting.
4. Demonstrates ability to be self-directed in using the nursing process to improve the outcomes of care at the program/service level.
5. Applies collaborative team approach in identifying, analyzing, resolving problems, and sustaining improvements.
6. Applies problem solving skills beyond the unit level, leading to improved care/outcomes.
7. Leads and directs others in organizing the delivery of care to assure continuity of care and peer accountability for practice.
8. Evaluates program/process or medical center policies/procedures and reports effectiveness or provides leadership, analyzing and addressing ethical legal issues that impact patients and staff and the medical center.
9. Demonstrates knowledge and compliance of ethical resolution process.
10. Assumes responsibility and demonstrates accountability for all professional nursing actions.
11. Provides considerate care, respecting patients'/staffs' personal values and belief system in provision of care.
12. Supports and enhances patient self-determination.
13. Safeguards privacy and maintains confidentiality of all patient information including electronic and print.
14. Serves as a resource and advocate for the protection of patient/family rights.
15. Initiates and participates in consultations by analyzing ethical issues, appropriate theoretical principles and provides guidance as appropriate.
16. Models ethical conduct with other staff.
17. Analyzes available resources; identifies risk areas which include budgetary, staffing, supplies and equipment, or availability of data/information.
18. Evaluates options available and directs a course of action which will result in the most favorable patient, program, or organizational outcomes.
19. Establishes patient care priorities that ensure safe efficient and effective patient care.
20. Provides care based on patient needs that can be delivered in a safe, efficient, and cost-effective manner.
21. Evaluates and assigns care based on staff competencies and priorities ensuring effective patient care with optimum use of all assigned resources.
22. Identifies all aspects of patient care delivery and utilizes appropriate resources to enhance patient outcomes.

Benefits

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: 8 am - 4:30 pm

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized