Nurse; Telehealth

Position: Nurse (Home Telehealth)
This Registered Nurse position is a Home Telehealth (HT) position located in the Connected Care Department at the Butler VA Medical Center. HT is a program that applies care and case management principles to coordinate care using health informatics, disease management and HT technologies to facilitate access to care and to improve the health of Veterans with the specific intent of providing the right care, in the right place, at the right time.

Some of the duties include but are not limited to:

* Work to improve clinical outcomes and access to care while reducing complications, hospitalizations, and clinic or emergency room visits for Veterans in post-acute care settings and high-risk patients with chronic comorbidities and mental health conditions.

* Provide initial and ongoing comprehensive assessment to include a review of systems which establishes a comprehensive plan of care.

* Triage and assess all data received from HT patients such as vital signs, reported symptoms and question responses.

* Identify and intervene for potential exacerbations of complications to facilitate timely care in Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) clinic, Emergency Department (ED)/Urgent Care (UC), and or/care in the community.

* Provide communication and data exchange with community-based providers when there is co-managed care.

* Provide interdisciplinary consultation and interventions such as with Home Based Primary Care (HBPC) and other non-institutional care programs and venues, Mental Health (MH), Social Work (SW), Pharmacy, Nutrition, etc.

* Identify patients' knowledge, health factors, skills, and behaviors that support self-management and identify gaps therein.

* Provide health care coaching, patient education, and motivational counseling.

* Communicate and facilitate with the interdisciplinary team regarding progress to goals; patterns or trends of data, symptoms or findings; concerning findings; need for provider assessment and/or interventions.

* Additional duties as assigned...

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 8:00am - 4:00 pm

Flexible: Y

Telework:
Ad hoc Telework may be available

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment

Incentives:

Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
Not Authorized