Registered Nurse - Community Care Coordinator

Job Title

Job Description

Duties for this position include, but are not limited to:

• Serves as a liaison to both internal and community providers and is responsible for managing the care of the Veteran throughout the consult process.
• Leads the provision of nursing care to patients with complex care needs utilizing the nursing process in alignment with the ANA Standards of Nursing Practice.
• Applies clinical knowledge/judgment to lead staff involvement in planning, decision-making, and evaluating outcomes within the immediate practice setting.
• Effectively functions as a leader, with demonstrated outcomes, for the immediate practice setting.
• Improves Veteran/patient driven care by resolving experience issues such as coordination of care, timeliness or process issues, common themes of dissatisfaction, or environment of care concerns for the immediate practice setting.
• Demonstrates the ability to improve the effectiveness of communications and interactions with others, to inspire their cooperation and confidence to ensure safe and effective outcomes in the current practice setting.
• Applies evidence-based practice/research resulting in improved outcomes in the immediate practice setting.
• Assesses the immediate practice setting to identify efficient, cost-effective care delivery.
• Leads patient care improvement through monitoring, analyzing, and evaluating care outcomes in the immediate practice setting.

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:

8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, Monday - Friday. Subject to change based on the needs of the facility.

Telework:
Not Available.

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment

Incentives:

Not Authorized.

Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
Not Authorized.