Registered Nurse - Referral Coordinator

Department of Veterans Affairs • Walla Walla, WA

26d • Onsite

About The Position

The Clinical Nurse Coordinator position is located within the Referral Coordination Program (RCP), which is a clinical service under the Chief, Care in the Community/Integrated Veteran Care. The primary function of this position is to provide clinical care coordination for Veteran referrals. This includes recommendations for disposition of Veteran medical care and services based on a clinical review. The incumbent will function in an independent manner under the direction of the Nurse Manager of the RCP.

Requirements

• Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

Responsibilities

• Executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to the management of complex patient care referrals.
• Care will be provided in the least restrictive, most cost-effective manner, through use of outpatient utilization management criteria, clinical practice guidelines, clinical pathways and developed triage tools.
• Assist with significant collaboration between community and VISN healthcare personnel in the transition of veterans through the VA Healthcare system.
• RCP Clinical Nurse Coordinator will provide quality and performance measures analysis and reporting of consult trends and systems issues through the utilization of the nursing process.
• The RCP Clinical Nurse Coordinator is responsible for the triage and care coordination of complex patients, works closely with Veterans to ensure smooth transition of care to community or VA facilities and care related to referrals, improvement meetings and service meetings.
• Communicates with Veterans their health care options including local VA, other VA Medical Centers and the community based on eligibility criteria for community care per the National Directives.
• RCP Clinical Nurse Coordinator processes all indicated referrals ensuring necessary pre-consult testing, labs, imaging and clinical records associated with the referral are reviewed and documented.
• RCP Clinical Nurse Coordinator will provide support to providers daily: coordinating dual care with community and other VA facilities.
• RCP Clinical Nurse Coordinator will work closely with Medical Support Assistants during the referral coordination process, ensuring Veterans are scheduled for care timely. Works closely with VA Medical Centers, contracted facilities and community facilities to remove obstacles that would impede the Veteran from utilizing all available services they are eligible to use.
• Assist in the development/expansion of local referral coordination teams at each VISN facility, as directed by supervisor.

Benefits

• 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)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Administration of Human Resource Programs
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees