Registered Nurse - Care Coordinator

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Duties

Duties and Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To:

• Focus on individual growth and development in practice with increased levels of self-direction.
• Bring principles and theory with limited application to critical thinking skills.
• Provide patient management, care coordination, and discharge/disposition planning for inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Assist veterans, family members, and caregivers with receiving the most appropriate options and services to meet their complex health care needs - including but not limited to, acute, chronic, multiple, complex, catastrophic, or life-threatening illnesses; combat stress, residuals of traumatic brain injury; community adjustment; addictions and other health problems.
• Coordinate care with multiple providers across all levels and sites of care.
• Assure services interface within the veteran affairs (va) and community programs to provide continuity of care to patients.
• Address psychosocial, as well as nursing and medical needs of patients and their families/caregivers, through participation with the interdisciplinary care team.
• Coordinate and expedite care from diagnosis to treatment.
• Analyze and manage laboratory and radiology results and provide information to the providers.
• Utilize databases to provide population management to track patient care through all episodes of care.
• Evaluate care outcomes to ensure timely and appropriate provision of services.
• Advocate for holistic care through patient/family education and provider interaction and implement and educational plan to meet the patient care needs.
• Responsible to the assigned rating and approving supervisors and is accountable to the associate chief nurse of perioperative service.

Va Offers A Comprehensive Total Rewards Package: Va Nurse Total Rewards

Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards

50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid federal holidays per year)

Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401k with up to 5% in contributions by va

Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

1 full and unrestricted license from any us state or territory

Full-time, 7:00am-3:30pm, monday-friday

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This is not a virtual position.

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