Registered Nurse (Home Telehealth Care Coordinator)

Job Title

Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Deliver fundamental knowledge-based care to assigned clients while developing technical skills.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care based on age-specific components.
• Assume responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient education, self-management, and customer satisfaction throughout the continuum of care.
• Administer medications and procedures per established policies and guidelines.
• Influence care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Identify appropriate Veterans for enrollment and discharges patients to transition from the program.
• Collaborate and engage in processes that assess, advocate, plan, implement, coordinate, monitor, and evaluate healthcare options and services so that they meet the needs of the individual Veteran.
• Per the Remote Patient Monitoring- Home Telehealth Manual Section 6, RN Care Coordinators are case managers and health coaches who are highly skilled and have specific training and competency in the use of disease management, health care informatics, and remote patient monitoring technologies. Case management is the cornerstone of Remote Patient Monitoring -Home Telehealth. Thorough, regular chart reviews and daily monitoring of data are only part of the overall management of care. There is a primary focus on enhancing patient self-management, education on the disease-specific elements of care, and oversight of health-related behaviors that are associated with positive patient outcomes.

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: 7:00 A.M. to 3:30 P.M. Monday - Friday

Telework: This is not a Remote position. The Veterans Health Administration, including VISN 4 (legacy VISN 19) and the VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, will comply fully with the intention and instructions contained in the "Return to Office" Executive Order. This position will likely be eligible to telework on a limited Ad-Hoc basis only.

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized.