Registered Nurse - RCI- Referral Coordination Initiative

Registered Nurse - Referral Coordination

Duties of the Registered Nurse - Referral Coordination include but are not limited to:

• Communicates with Veterans on their health care options including local VA, VA Medical Center, and community-based eligibility.
• Serves as a liaison between referring providers and specialty care services.
• Works closely with other VA Medical Centers, contracted facilities, and community facilities to remove obstacles that would impede the Veteran from utilizing the services at other VA medical centers.
• Outpatient specialty clinic care coordination and patient flow management, including appointment management.
• Collaborates with clinic staff to ensure patients are given timely appointments and expedite new patient consults.
• Reviews internal and/or community care referrals for medical necessity of requested services using clinical judgement.
• Serves as an extension of specialty care services receiving all referrals to service [includes both internal and those eligible for community care] and performs initial triage for consults to determine clinical appropriateness and clinical triage tool/method used for the review.
• Collaborates referral services and consultant services to develop care coordination agreements (service agreements).
• Educates staff and patients on care modality options to include telehealth or e-consults.
• Data mining to include, but not limited to, referral patterns including discontinuation or cancellation patterns.
• Provides clinical knowledge and acts as a clinical resource to non-clinical multidisciplinary staff.

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, 7:30am - 4:00pm

Telework: Available according to agency policy

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized