What are the responsibilities and job description for the Virtual RN, Home Hospital position at Mass General Brigham Healthcare at Home?
Job Summary
Our Virtual Registered Nurses provide high quality, patient-centered, nursing care to patients across the continuum of services provided by Healthcare at Home. The VRN will work with a robust interdisciplinary team to promote highest patient outcomes.
This role will utilize remote patient monitoring, assessment, planning, intervention, and critical thinking skills to care for patient populations in the home. Leveraging the resources and expertise of the MGB team to implement collaborative workflows, standards, policies, protocols, guidelines, and documentation systems to support safe, reliable, high-quality evidence-based care within clinical protocols as the foundation.
Role Responsibilities
*Performs and documents nursing process, assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patients receiving care remotely, in their defined home.
*Performs virtual care, patient assessment, remote patient monitoring (as ordered) and works with the clinical care team to provide care, trend data, and respond accordingly.
*Provides protocol driven assessments, care coordination and intervenes as appropriate and defined by MGB Healthcare at Home protocols.
*Exhibits sound clinical decision making and critical thinking skills for a diverse patient population.
*Maintains and practices in accordance with nursing guidelines, as well as institutional, local, and state regulations.
*Performs admissions, discharges, and episodic visits within MGB Home Hospital, through high quality virtual patient-centered care.
*Performs triage of patient care calls outside of regular business hours for post-acute home care patients; requests a home care in-person visit as appropriate by the home care on-call nurse.
*Serves as a role model for professional nursing practice.
*Utilizes nursing knowledge to identify, prevent and or solve complex acute and/
Shares expertise with multidisciplinary teams to serve as a staff resource.
*Supports research efforts to advance knowledge and promote evidence-based practice.
*Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned by Nursing Leadership.
*Provides medication teaching, assists with medication administration and education to patients and families. Collaborates closely with pharmacy and care team regarding medication reconciliation process.
*Completes timely documentation for all nursing care in Epic.
*Answers, directs, and provides follow up on incoming clinical patient concerns
Quality and Safety
*Ensures compliance with reporting requirements in RL Solutions.
*Participates in quality and safety education, rounds, and evaluations.
*Promotes professional practice and a culture of safety; engages in process improvement efforts.
*Must be able to work in a HIPPA compliant environment.
Mass General Brigham Home Care, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. By embracing diverse skills, perspectives and ideas, we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
PHH is committed to diversity in the workplace which begins with respect and opportunity for all. PHH takes affirmative action to ensure that equal employment opportunity is provided to all persons regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, age, ancestry, veteran status, disability or any other basis that would be inconsistent with any applicable ordinance or law.
Education/Licensure
- Graduation from an accredited school of nursing. BSN preferred.
- BLS
- Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in Massachusetts
Experience/Skills
- At least 3 years of Emergency Department experience required
- Telemetry experience preferred
- Telehealth and remote patient monitoring experience preferred
- Telephone triage experience preferred
- Proficiency with Epic, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Teams, and other web-based platforms preferred
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills required
- Experience working in a start-up environment and/or willingness to adapt to continuous change encouraged
Mass General Brigham Home Care, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. By embracing diverse skills, perspectives and ideas, we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
PHH is committed to diversity in the workplace which begins with respect and opportunity for all. PHH takes affirmative action to ensure that equal employment opportunity is provided to all persons regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, age, ancestry, veteran status, disability or any other basis that would be inconsistent with any applicable ordinance or law.