Charge RN / Virtual Care

Virtual Care Charge Nurse – Night Shift, Full Time Night shift, full-time Virtual Care Charge Nurse located in Tyler, TX. This role is centered on real‑time coordination and administration for the Virtual Care Program, ensuring safe, efficient, and compliant delivery of virtual care across assigned departments. Responsibilities Maximize the effectiveness of virtual nurses, virtual PSAs, and surveillance monitoring staff during the assigned shift. Serve as a resource for patient safety concerns, workflow issues, and technology‑related barriers from virtual and bedside teams. Manage staffing and patient assignments for virtual admissions, discharges, rounding, observation, and remote monitoring activities. Adjust virtual care coverage in response to census changes, call‑ins, admissions, discharges, and surge capacity needs. Prioritize patients and virtual care tasks based on acuity, safety risk, and active alerts. Ensure escalations and interventions follow established facility algorithms, policies, and documentation standards. Maintain clear and timely communication with bedside charge nurses, unit leadership, providers, and clinical managers. Participate in shift hand‑offs by communicating staffing status, high‑risk patients, unresolved escalations, and operational concerns. Collaborate with IT, vendors, and clinical leadership to investigate and troubleshoot virtual care and remote monitoring system issues. Support adherence to regulatory, organizational, and departmental policies related to virtual care. Serve as a clinical and operational resource for virtual staff, providing guidance on workflows and best practices. Participate in quality improvement initiatives and operational projects related to the Virtual Nursing Program. Assist the Management Team in maintaining staff competencies and other tasks that may be assigned to them. Qualifications Registered Nurse from an accredited school of professional nursing. Current Multistate Compact RN License. BLS certification obtained within 14 days of hire or transfer into the role and prior to providing direct patient care. Compliance with regulatory requirements, guidelines, and organizational policies. Strong clinical judgment and ability to manage multiple workflows in a fast‑paced virtual environment. Effective verbal and written communication skills, including remote communication technologies. Preferred Qualifications Minimum of 3–5 years of inpatient or acute care nursing experience. Prior charge nurse, virtual nursing, or telehealth experience. Experience supporting remote patient monitoring or virtual observation programs. Proficiency in EMR systems and multiple virtual care and monitoring platforms. #J-18808-Ljbffr UT Health East Texas