Registered Nurse- Community Care

The LTC Charles S. Kettles VA Medical Center is seeking a Full-Time Registered Nurse (RN) - Community Care, aligned under Chief of Staff.

The Community Care (CC) RN Registered Nurse (RN) is responsible for executing a streamlined approach to receiving, triaging, and directing timely, coordinated care. The nurse brings principles and theory with limited application of critical thinking skills. The focus is on individual growth and development in practice with increased levels of self-direction. The CC RN possesses intimate knowledge of the internal referral care process, clinical review criteria, utilization management standards, clinical documentation requirements, community care regulations, and Veterans Health Administration (VHA) standards and guidelines.

The CC RN uses nursing knowledge and systems theory to assess, organize, facilitate, and guide Veterans through their full range of care options including internal/direct care in Veterans Affairs (VA) and care in the community. The CC RN serves as a liaison to both internal and community providers and is responsible for managing the care of the Veteran throughout the consult process.

The CC RN supports the medical center's mission to improve timely access to care, ensure Veterans who want to receive care in the community are referred and scheduled into the community, and support the delivery of high quality, timely care to the Veteran receiving community services. The CC RN will work collaboratively within the Office of Integrated Veteran Care (IVC) to triage Request for Services (RFS) to coordinate care processes defined by the IVC Field Guidebook to include developing a care coordination plan, reviewing medical documentation from community providers, communication of care coordination needs, and supporting the Veteran through the completion of the episode of care.

The CC RN will influence care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team both within the Veterans Affairs (VA) and in the community. The CC RN will comply with VA-mandated processes and use of health information solutions that serve to assess, document, exchange, and track care coordination information. The CC RN will utilize delegation of authority, if applicable, to function at their highest level of role performance and align high-quality care with key performance indicators to ensure practice standards meet patient care needs.

• 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, 8:00am to 4:30pm
• Telework: Not Available
• Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
• Relocation/Recruitment
  
  Incentives:
  
  Not Authorized
• Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized