[Hiring] Virtual Nurse @LMH Health

Role Description

The Virtual Registered Nurse (RN) provides direct nursing care in accordance with established policies, procedures and protocols of the healthcare organization, while complying with laws and regulations in maintaining patient information. This position leads the coordination of care for a group of patients for a designated time frame and provides care to these patients by applying effective decision making skills based on patient/family healthcare needs and priorities.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Oversee and direct patient care of assigned patients in collaboration with nurses that are physically located in the unit.
• Virtually assess and reassess patients as appropriate.
• Virtually educate and mentor staff with the assessment and reassessment of patients.
• Virtually educate patients and families on disease processes and procedures.
• Review documentation of assigned patients to ensure that quality measures are being met.
• Collaborate virtually to develop therapeutic relationships with patients and families promoting decision making based on the assessment of patient medical histories, symptoms, examinations, diagnosis, conditions and treatments.
• Communicate and collaborate concisely and continuously among clinical team, including physicians, both verbally and in documentation focusing on patients identified problems and needs by implementing and monitoring patient care plans, as well as recording and communicating patient conditions as appropriate, to optimize their health outcomes.
• Assess and virtually coordinate patient's discharge planning needs with members of the healthcare team.
• Exceed at problem solving and forward suggestions for improvements to the leadership team.
• Competently apply collaborative teamwork and leadership as a member of an inter-professional team to coordinate patient centered care for quality patient and unit outcomes of care processes by utilizing information, resources and technology.
• Provide Patient Centered Care Nursing processes including Patient/Family, Evidence Based Practices (EBP), safety and process improvement.
• Exemplify professionalism: apply lifelong learning; contribute to the science of nursing; participate in governance; share knowledge to expand the scale and scope of best practices with others; build the ethical, moral and regulatory base for best practices and processes of patient and unit care.
• Perform nursing care according to the population served on the unit as referenced in the Administrative, Scope of Services Policy.
• Perform other duties as assigned in line with current basic nursing scope.

Qualifications

• 2 years of inpatient RN experience.
• Associates in Nursing or diploma.
• Current Registered Nurse license to practice in Kansas.
• Current Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers; however, based on department, certification in ACLS and PALS waives the BLS requirement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors in Nursing.
• ACLS within 6 months of hire (ED, ICU/2East or other units).

Our Cultural Beliefs

• People First
• Integrity Matters
• Better Together