Registered Nurse - Traveling Veteran Coordinator / Interfacility Coordinator

TVC/IFC Coordinator

The TVC/IFC Coordinator serves as the primary point of contact for Veterans, their families and caregivers, and interdisciplinary healthcare teams. Responsibilities and duties are but not limited to the following:

• Demonstrate proficiency in practice based on conscious and deliberate planning.
• Self-directed in goal setting for managing complex client situations.
• Assumes responsibility for the coordination of care for traveling Veterans either vested in another Veterans Affairs (VA) facility and traveling to the local catchment area.
• Focus on patient education, self-management, and customer satisfaction throughout the continuum of care.
• Influences care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Ensures effective communication and continuity of care throughout all phases of patient movement, referral, and care transitions both within and between VHA sites of care.
• Oversight of interfacility consults, including triage, processing, and coordination of all requisite pre-consult diagnostic testing, labs, and imaging, as well as followup diagnostic care as necessary.
• The incumbent utilizes clinical practice guidelines, care pathways, and Milliman Care Guidelines (MCG) to ensure care is provided in the least restrictive and most cost-effective manner while monitoring chronic disease and health promotion indices through clinical guidelines and performance measures.
• The TVC/IFC Coordinator is further responsible for performing quality and performance measures analysis and reporting trends related to consults, referrals, and systems issues utilizing the nursing process.
• Functions as an emerging leader in providing direction to staff to identify, implement and evaluate patient care needs.
• Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to ensure the plan of care is achieved.

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 - Friday; 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Telework: Ad-hoc only and based on agency policy, not regular or reoccurring

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized

EDRP: Not Approved