Charge RN​/Virtual Care

Night Shift, Part-Time Virtual Care Charge Nurse

Join our team as a night shift, part-time, Virtual Care Charge Nurse in Tyler, TX. This position works onsite in Tyler, Texas.

Why Join Us?

Thrive in a People-First Environment and Make Healthcare Better

• Thrive:
  We empower our team with career growth opportunities, tuition assistance, and resources that support your wellness, education, and financial well-being.
• People-First:
  We prioritize your well-being with paid time off, comprehensive health benefits, and a supportive, inclusive culture where you are valued and cared for.
• Make Healthcare Better:
  We use advanced technology to support our team and enhance patient care.

Get to Know Your Team:

• Ardent Health is a leading provider of healthcare in growing mid-sized urban communities across the U.S. With a focus on people and investments in innovative services and technologies, Ardent is passionate about making healthcare better and easier to access. Through its subsidiaries, Ardent delivers care through a system of 30 acute care hospitals, 24,000+ team members and more than 280 sites of care with over 1,800 affiliated providers across six states.

Learn About A Day in the Life of a Virtual Nurse:

Responsibilities

• Maximizes the effectiveness of virtual nurses, virtual PSAs (Patient Safety Attendants), and surveillance monitoring staff during the assigned shift.
• Serve as a resource for patient safety concerns, workflow issues, and technology-related barriers from virtual and bedside teams.
• Manage staffing and patient assignments for virtual admissions, discharges, rounding, observation, and remote monitoring activities.
• Adjust virtual care coverage in response to census changes, call-ins, admissions, discharges, and surge capacity needs.
• Prioritize patients and virtual care tasks based on acuity, safety risk, and active alerts.
• Ensure escalations and interventions follow established facility algorithms, policies, and documentation standards.
• Maintain clear and timely communication with bedside charge nurses, unit leadership, providers, and clinical managers.
• Participate in shift hand-offs by communicating staffing status, high-risk patients, unresolved escalations, and operational concerns.
• Collaborate with IT, vendors, and clinical leadership to escalate and troubleshoot virtual care and remote monitoring system issues.
• Support adherence to regulatory, organizational, and departmental policies related to virtual care.
• Serve as a clinical and operational resource for virtual staff, providing guidance on workflows and best practices.
• Participate in quality improvement initiatives and operational projects related to the Virtual Nursing Program.
• Assists the Management Team in maintaining staff competencies and other tasks that may be assigned to them.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse from an accredited school of professional nursing
• Current Multistate Compact RN License
• BLS certification must be obtained within 14 days of hire or transfer into the role and prior to providing direct patient care
• Comply with regulatory requirements, guidelines, and organizational policies
• Strong clinical judgment and ability to manage multiple workflows in a fast-paced virtual environment
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, including remote communication technologies

Preferred

Job Requirements:

• Minimum of 3-5 years of inpatient or acute care nursing experience
• Prior charge nurse, virtual nursing, or telehealth experience
• Experience supporting remote patient monitoring or virtual observation programs
• Proficiency in EMR systems and multiple virtual care and monitoring platforms