Virtual Care Nurse

Location: LINCOLN, NE, US, Remote

Employment Type: PRN

RN Virtually Integrated Care supporting CHI Health St. Elizabeth Hospital in Lincoln, NE.

As our Virtual Care RN, you will revolutionize patient care, leveraging cutting-edge technology to deliver expert nursing guidance across our health system.

Every day, you will provide real-time virtual inter-collaborative nursing assistance to on-site care teams nationwide. From admissions and discharges to transitions of care and vital support tasks, youll apply your seasoned skills to diverse patient needs, ensuring no two days are alike.

To succeed in this transformative role, you will project expert knowledge, unwavering reliability, and articulate communication, serving as a critical virtual extension of our patient care teams, ensuring exceptional outcomes across a spectrum of diagnoses.

• Collaborates virtually with physicians, nurses and other health care team members in the provision of clinical patient care, including virtual assessment of the medical, physical and psychological status of patients and responding to routine, urgent and emergent patient issues.
• Proactively oversees the patient care plan to implement preventive measures that improve patient safety and the quality of care delivered via telemedicine technology and surveillance of physiological trends; drives risk reduction through participation in root cause analysis (RCA’s), quality surveillance as well as the compilation and interpretation of large data sets of patient information.
• Effectively coordinates communication with members of the bedside interdisciplinary team.
• Supervises the comprehensive care of patients through coaching and mentoring bedside nurses and other care team members.
• Collaborates with unit leadership and provides oversight of unit quality programs and metrics; ensures evidence-based practices are being followed by team members to provide the highest quality care and safety for patients.
• Supports management to ensure all aspects of clinical operations are conducted and documented in compliance with relevant internal policies, standards/procedures and applicable regulatory requirements; assesses, on a continuous basis, services, patient outcomes, quality control and family/patient satisfaction to ensure optimal care and delivery; ensures that internal controls are sufficient to provide for accurate, complete and compliant programs and processes.

• Graduate of an RN nursing program
• Registered Nurse: NE/IA or compact
• Bachelors of Science in Nursing
• Minimum 3-5 years in clinical focus
• Minimum 1-3 years leadership experience (e.g. Charge RN or related experience)
• Basic Life Support (BLS)
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) within 5 months of hire
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) within 30 days.

Preferred:

• MedSurg/PCU/ICU Experience within the last 2 years
• Masters of Science in Nursing

CHI Health St. Elizabeth, founded by the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration in 1889, is a full-service, 260-bed, nonprofit regional medical center in Lincoln, Neb. St. Elizabeth specializes in the treatment areas of newborn and pediatric care, women’s health, burn and wound, cardiology, oncology, emergency medicine, orthopedics and neuroscience.