Registered Nurse-PACT Care Manager

PACT Care Manager RN

Duties include but not limited to:

• Provides coordinated care across the life span to Veterans, families, caregivers, groups, populations, and communities.
• Provides coordination and transition of care across the continuum of care in a variety of outpatient settings, which include but are limited to clinics, Ambulatory Surgery & Diagnostic Procedure areas, Telehealth service environments, and Care Coordination organizations.
• During each encounter, the PACT Care Manager RN focuses on patient safety and the quality of nursing care by applying appropriate nursing interventions, such as identifying and clarifying patient needs, performing procedures, conducting health education, promoting patient advocacy, coordinating nursing and other health services.
• Assists the patient to navigate the health care system, and evaluating patient outcomes.
• Acts as a partner and advisor, assists and supports patients and families to optimally manage their health care, respecting their culture and values, individual needs, support in self-management, health goals and treatment preferences.
• They facilitate continuity of care using the nursing process, multidisciplinary collaboration, and coordination of appropriate health care services and community resources across the care continuum.
• Systematic data gathering, assessment, appropriate nursing judgment, and evaluation of human responses to actual or potential health problems through such services as case finding, health teaching, health counseling, provision of care supportive to or restorative of life and well-being, and executing medical regimens, including administering medications and treatments prescribed by a licensed or otherwise legally authorized provider.
• The nurse's primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family, group, or community.
• The staff nurse interprets the philosophy and goals of the Nursing Service to others in the work setting.
• Functions within established guidelines and demonstrates the ability to work effectively and develop therapeutic relationships with patients, their families and other professional and supportive personnel who provide patient care.

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, , flexible to meet the needs of the organization.

Telework: Not available.

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized.

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized.