Registered Nurse- Community Care

The John D. Dingell VA Medical Center is recruiting for a Registered Nurse - Community Care (CC) Coordinator. The CC RN is responsible for executing a streamlined approach to receiving, triaging, and directing timely, coordinated care. Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates the effectiveness of the Veteran's care. Serves to support delivery of high quality, timely care to the Veteran receiving services in the community. PRINCIPALES MISSIONS : Major duties include, but are not limited to: Responsible for receiving, triaging, and directing timely, coordinated care through a streamlined approach. Demonstrates proficient clinical practice, sound decision-making, deliberate planning, and critical-thinking skills. Maintains comprehensive knowledge of: Internal referral and care processes. Clinical review criteria. Utilization-management standards. Clinical documentation requirements. Community-care regulations. Veterans Health Administration (VHA) standards and guidelines. Uses nursing knowledge and systems theory to assess, organize, facilitate, and guide Veterans through available care options, including: Internal or direct care within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Community care. Serves as a liaison between internal VA providers and community providers. Manages the Veteran's care throughout the consult process. Supports the medical center's mission by: Improving timely access to care. Ensuring Veterans who choose community care are appropriately referred and scheduled. Supporting the delivery of high-quality, timely community services. Collaborates within the Office of Integrated Veteran Care (IVC) to triage Requests for Services (RFS). Coordinates care processes outlined in the IVC Field Guidebook, including: Developing care-coordination plans. Reviewing medical documentation from community providers. Communicating care-coordination needs. Supporting the Veteran through completion of the episode of care. Influences care outcomes by collaborating with interdisciplinary team members within the VA and community settings. Complies with VA-mandated processes and uses health-information solutions to: Assess care-coordination needs. Document care. Exchange information. Track care-coordination activities. Utilizes delegation of authority, when applicable, to function at the highest level of role performance. Aligns high-quality care with key performance indicators to ensure practice standards meet patient-care needs. Other 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, 8:00a-4:30p. Schedule subject to change based on needs of the Agency. Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized QUALIFICATIONS REQUISES : Basic Requirements: English Language Proficiency. In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7403(f), no person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English. Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate accrediting agency and accredited by one of the following accrediting bodies at the time the program was completed by the applicant: The Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE); OR Individuals attending a master's level bridge program in nursing who have

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OUR MISSION: To fulfill President Lincoln's promise "To care for those who have served in our nation's military and for their families, caregivers, and survivors" - by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's Veterans. How would you like to become a part of a team providing compassionate whole health care to Veterans? John D. Dingell VA Medical Center in Detroit (Detroit VAMC) is a 160-bed full-service medical center that provides primary, secondary and tertiary care to Veterans in Southeast Michigan. There are approximately 330,000 Veterans residing in the primary service area. The Detroit VAMC is classified as a Level 1B complexity by Veterans Health Administration. We are a teaching hospital, providing a full range of patient care services, with state-of-the-art technology as well as education and research. The facility offers primary care and a full array of medical, surgical and mental health services including Cardiac Care, Cancer Care, Orthopedics, Surgical Servi