Registered Nurse - Supervisory Facility Telehealth Coordinator

Department of Veterans Affairs

This position is located at the Richard L. Roudebush VAMC Indianapolis, IN within the Health Informatics service. Responsible and accountable for all elements of the nursing process when providing and/or supervising direct patient care. Responsible for overall planning, coordination, implementation, management, and evaluation of clinical applications of telehealth within the facility, particular emphasis on improving access to rural Veterans.

• Functions or Scope of Assigned Duties: The Facility Telehealth Coordinator Registered Nurse (RN) executes position responsibilities that demonstrate expert leadership, experience, and creative approaches in providing complex patient management. Collaborates with Veterans Integrated Systems Network (VISN), facility leaders, and staff to incorporate new concepts and programs into extant systems. Organizes and facilitates the station Telehealth Oversight Committee as well as other committees and task forces as assigned. Serves and/or represents the facility on various VISN telehealth groups. Engages in outreach planning and activities, including work with potential non-VA community partners to improve access to rural and highly rural Veterans to healthcare services via telehealth initiatives and programming. The Facility Telehealth Coordinator, in collaboration with the VISN Telehealth Office maintains linkages and effective communications with the telehealth national training centers to ensure optimal care coordination and telehealth educational opportunities for facility staff. Establishes guiding processes, principles, and policies for the development and implementation of patient and family centric telehealth programs at the facility, and for the operation, management and oversight of telehealth programs. Ensures functional linkages across the telehealth continuum, regarding the various telehealth clinical applications, including but not limited to telemental health, teleretinal imaging, teledermatology, home telehealth, etc. Advocates for telehealth program needs at the facility and brings matters requiring higher level intervention to the attention of facility leadership. Facilitates communication across care lines and facilities to achieve maximum fulfillment of telehealth program goals and objectives. 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 7:30am - 4pm Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

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