Registered Nurse Virtual Nurse - Med Surg

Virtual Registered Nurse (RN)

A virtual registered nurse (RN) is responsible for the remote patient management and care in the inpatient setting. The virtual RN serves as a member of the healthcare team by collaborating, communicating, and facilitating care with all clinicians, patients and families. The virtual RN supports nurses from a remote location who are working in the patient care unit.

Essential Functions:

• Provides direct and indirect patient care, evaluates outcomes, consults with other specialists as required and adjusts nursing care processes as indicated to ensure safe patient care through a virtual platform.
• Gathers initial nursing histories, assesses patients' conditions and develops individual care plans in collaboration with direct care nurse; maintains patient documentation.
• Receives and reviews preceding shift reports and floor nurse reports; makes complete rounds of all units, and notes patients' condition.
• Notifies appropriate clinician regarding any unusual or unexpected events or problems requiring direct physician consultation.
• Works with direct care RN to implement and reinforce patient instructional needs with patient and family offering informational material and pointing out special areas of concern through a virtual platform.
• Evaluates outcomes of patient care and working with the direct care nurse, adjusts nursing care processes as necessary to ensure optimal patient care.
• Identifies and resolves workplace health and safety issues.
• May serve as secondary RN when appropriate to do so through a virtual platform to confirm medications, patient assessment, laboratory and blood products.
• Complies with policies, procedures, regulations, and standards and takes corrective action when violations occur.
• Orients, instructs, and educates assigned personnel.
• Adheres to and supports team members in exhibiting TMCH values of integrity, community, compassion, and dedication.
• Adheres to TMC organizational and department-specific safety, confidentiality, values, policies and standards.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education: Graduation from a qualified, nationally accredited nursing program. Bachelor's Degree in Nursing preferred.

Experience: A minimum of five (5) years in acute care experience is required.

Licensure or Certification: Current RN licensure permitting work in the State of Arizona and Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required. Certification in specialty preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of direct patient care and critical care procedures and techniques, tools, and responses required to ensure optimal patient care.
• Knowledge of exam indicators, contraindications and patient preparation.
• Skill in communicating in a clear and concise manner with staff involved in critical care, and physicians to ensure the proper care of patients.
• Skill in reading 12-lead EKG.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to complete routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to listen and accurately interpret others' communication or instructions to take appropriate action.
• Ability to speak and communicate effectively.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of instructions and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Ability to fluently work with virtual nursing technology.

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