Nurse (Care Manager) - Boise, United States - Veterans Health Administration

Description

Summary

The RN Care Manager uses the nursing process and evidence-based practice to collaborate with the Teamlet (Patient, Primary Care Provider, RN Care Manager and Clinical Support Technician) and larger Team (family/caregiver, internal and community-based services involved in providing care to the patient) in developing the patient-driven holistic care plan for life. The RN Care Manager is a member of the Teamlet team.

Duties

Duties/Roles are as follows, but not limited to:

Executes position responsibilities that demonstrates leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex patient care.

Leading and organizing delivery of care to assure continuity of care and peer accountability for practice, including access to care and discharge planning.

Using advanced clinical knowledge/judgment to promote staff involvement in planning, decision-making, and evaluating outcomes.

Functioning as an expert in clinical practice and/or areas related to the assigned roles and responsibilities.

Systematically evaluating current practice, and formulating outcomes for groups of patients and/or organizational processes within an area of expertise.

Guiding, developing, and supporting staff from a leadership perspective.

Using professional standards of care, scientific evidence, and practice to evaluate programs and/or service activities.

Demonstrates expertise in leadership at the systems level that is sustainable, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex situations.

Roles may include, but are not limited to clinical nurse leader, clinical nurse specialist, nurse coordinator, nurse educator, expert clinician, nurse manager, nurse practitioner, nurse recruiter, or researcher.

Leads and organizes delivery of services at the to assure continuity and peer accountability for practice.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package:

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
Compressed/Flexible: Available
Telework: Not available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS) : Not authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required