Registered Nurse - Community Care Coordinator

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Iron Mountain (MI); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Pension Plan

Health Insurance

Job summary

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs at Oscar G Johnson VA Medical Center in Iron Mountain, MI, seeks an RN to coordinate Community Care (CC) for Veterans.

The role focuses on supervising direct patient care and applying the nursing process across Veterans Care options, including community care and internal/direct care. The CC Coordinator RN will triage requests for service, coordinate care with the IVC, and ensure timely access while adhering to VHA standards.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care for Veterans.
• Triaging and directing timely, coordinated care.
• Liaison with internal and community providers to coordinate care through the consult process.
• Comply with VA health information and care coordination standards.
• Contribute nursing perspective in interdisciplinary team discussions.

Job description

The Community Care (CC) Coordinator Registered Nurse (RN) is at the Oscar G Johnson VA Medical Center in Iron Mountain, Michigan. The Registered Nurse is responsible and accountable for all elements of the nursing process when providing and/or supervising direct patient care. Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates the effectiveness of the Veterans Care.

The Community Care (CC) Coordinator RN is responsible for executing a streamlined approach to receiving, triaging, and directing timely, coordinated care. The nurse demonstrates proficient practice and decision-making, deliberate planning, and critical thinking skills. The CC Coordinator possesses intimate knowledge of the internal referral car process, clinical review criteria, utilization management standards, clinical documentation requirements, community care regulations, and Veterans Health Administration (VHA) standards and guidelines. The (CC) Coordinator RN is also responsible for the following duties, but not limited to: Uses nursing knowledge and systems theory to assess, organize, facilitiate, and guide Veterans through their full range of care options including internal/direct care in Veterans Affairs (VA) and care in the community. Serves as a liaison to both internal and community providers and is responsible for managing the care of the Veteran through the consult process. 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 delivery of timely care to the Veteran receiving community services. Collaborate within the Office of Integrated Veteran Care (IVC) to triage Request for Service (RFS) to coordinate care processes defined by the IVC Field Guidebook to include developing a care coordination plan. Influences care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team both within the Veterans Affairs (VA) and in the community. Comply with VA-mandated processes and use of health information solutions that serve to assess, document, exchange, and track care coordination information. Utilize delegation of authority, if applicable, to function at their highest level of role performance and align high-quality care. Contributes professional nursing perspective in discussion with the interdisciplinary team.

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.
• Telework: Not available.
• Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
• Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized