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Registered Nurse Nurse Navigator
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 4 days ago
About the Role
Responsible and accountable for all elements of the nursing process when providing and/or supervising direct patient care. Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates care based on age specific components. Assumes responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient education, self-management, and customer satisfaction throughout the continuum of care. This may involve the coordination of scheduling appointments, procedures, surgeries, labs, tests, scans.
What You'll Do
- →The Nurse Registered Nurse (RN) Care Coordinator (CC)/Nurse Navigator (NN) executes position responsibilities that demonstrate expert leadership, experience, and creative approaches in providing complex patient management.
- →Provides patient management, care coordination, and discharge/disposition planning for inpatient and outpatient settings.
- →The CC/NN assists Veterans, family members, and caregivers with receiving the most appropriate options and services to meet their complex health care needs.
- →This includes, but is not limited to, acute, chronic, multiple, complex, catastrophic, or life-threatening illnesses; combat stress, residuals of traumatic brain injury; community adjustment; addictions and other health problems.
- →Coordinates care with multiple providers across all levels and sites of care.
- →Coordination also includes assuring services interface within the Veterans Affairs (VA) and community programs to provide continuity of care to patients.
- →The CC/NN addresses psychosocial, as well as nursing and medical needs of patients and their families/caregivers, through participation with the interdisciplinary care team.
- →Coordinates and expedites care from diagnosis to treatment.
- →The RN will review the patients charts to identify potential problems prior to and after treatments or visits, to include labs, imaging, and any other pre-visitor post-visit requirements.
- →Utilizes databases to provide population management to track patient care through all episodes of care.
- →Evaluates care and outcomes to ensure timely and appropriate provision of services.
- →Advocates for holistic care through patient/family education and provider interaction and implements an educational plan to meet the patient care needs.
- →The CC/NN collaborates in the development, implementation, evaluation, and revision of policies, procedures, and/or guidelines.
- →Demonstrates performance and leadership that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓You may be required to serve a probationary period.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
Personality Fit
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