<p>Come join our team at the Columbia VA Health Care System in Columbia, South Carolina. Columbia is the geographic center of South Carolina, with easy access to mountains (two hours west) and nationally recognized beach resorts (two hours east). Columbia boasts a nationally acclaimed library system, highly rated schools, and many outstanding golf courses. Big time college sports abound with two major schools - the University of South Carolina.</p> <p>Duties include but not limited to:</p> <p>The Registered Nurse Program Co-Champion/Case Manager delivers fundamental knowledge-based care to assigned clients while developing technical skills. Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates care based on age-specific components. Assumes responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient education, self-management, and customer satisfaction throughout the continuum of care. Provides care and counseling of persons or in the promotion and maintenance of health and prevention of illness and injury based upon the nursing process which includes systematic data gathering, assessment, appropriate nursing judgement, and evaluation of human responses to actual or potential health problems through such services as case finding, health teaching, health counseling. Follows procedures per established policies and guidelines. Influences care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team.</p> <p>The Nurse Facility Care Coordination and Integrated Case Management (CCICM) Coordinator Registered Nurse (RN) focus is on individual growth and development in practice with increased levels of self-direction. The nurse brings principles and theory with limited application of critical thinking skills. Provides coordination and direct clinical evidence-based services including, assessments and interventions and provides Veteran, family, caregiver, and staff education on CCICM. Responsible for resource development, community outreach, continuous quality improvement activities, and evaluation/consultation.</p> <p>The CCICM Coordinator is administratively responsible, in collaboration with the CCICM Social Worker (SW), for the clinical programming and daily operations of the CCICM throughout the facility. Develops and implements policies and procedures to ensure compliance with the local facility, Veterans Integrated Systems Network (VISN), Office of Nursing Services (ONS), and Veterans Affairs Central Office (VACO) directives and handbooks. Develops and implements a facility level framework for implementation of national standardized processes and tools that integrate communication, collaboration, and coordination across services and programs to expand upon existing Veterans Health Administration (VHA) program approaches and address concerns about care coordination service delivery gaps and service duplication.</p> <p>The CCICM Coordinator participates in the development of policies, procedures, and practice guidelines for the program and participates in facility, VISN, and national program development--as related to CCICM. Provides guidance and support in the implementation and maintenance of the program through education, training, mentorship, and coaching. Develops, implements, and tracks facility wide CCICM education plan to key stakeholders. Ensures full collaboration with social work counterpart, for all planning, development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the CCICM operations. Manages, monitors, evaluates, and reports on all CCICM related data to fully capture the day-to-day functioning and practice impacts on the facility and Veteran care. Identifies Veteran cohorts across the facility with the highest opportunity and highest need; including development and implementation of a monitoring process for ongoing screening and identified cohort(s). Identifies and tracks potential areas where care coordination is taking place to include but not limited to primary care, surgical care, mental health, community care, specialty clinics, geriatrics, chronic disease, and homeless programs.</p> <p>Preferred Experience - Case Management</p> <p>Selective Placement Factor</p> <p>Quality Ranking Factor</p> <p>VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards</p> <p>Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards</p> <p>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)</p> <p>Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA</p> <p>Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)</p> <p>Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory</p> <p>Work Schedule: 7:30AM-4:00PM Monday - Friday (Works Schedule can be subject to change to accommodate the needs of the agency).</p> <p>Compressed/Flexible: Not Available</p> <p>Telework: Not Available</p> <p>Virtual: This is not a virtual position.</p> <p>Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized</p> <p>Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized</p> <p>PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not Authorized</p>