Registered Nurse (RN) - TeleHealth, Part Time

About the position

The Registered Nurse (RN) - TeleHealth position at Dartmouth-Hitchcock involves providing professional nursing care and support to patients via telephone and video communication. The role requires critical thinking and effective communication skills to assess, plan, implement, educate, and evaluate patient outcomes. The RN will work collaboratively with physicians and multidisciplinary teams to develop care plans and monitor patient care, ensuring optimal health outcomes for a defined patient population.

Responsibilities

• TeleEmergency or ICU Focus
• Identifies patient health-related problems and risk states and develops nursing care plans accordingly.
• Assists other nurses in assessment, diagnosis, care planning, and evaluation of outcomes.
• Provides individualized nursing care, recognizes and takes appropriate action for significant changes in patient conditions.
• Evaluates effectiveness of nursing care and makes necessary modifications to assist with optimal patient outcomes.
• Establishes relevant, evidence-based and safe nursing interventions and priorities when providing nursing care.
• Collaborates effectively with patient, patient's significant others, and members of the health care team to achieve optimal patient outcomes.
• Acts as a resource to peers, student nurses, medical students, house officers, and other health care providers.
• Communicates patient status through verbal, electronic, and written means with other health care providers, and takes appropriate action for patient well-being.
• Observes patient to recognize nursing needs. Implements care/interventions through collaboration with other nursing team members, physicians or members of other health care disciplines.
• Develops and promotes long-term relationships with spoke site facilities and providers, providing feedback and follow-up as indicated.
• Identifies and offers solutions to patient care delivery issues through quality improvement, continuing education, research, and peer review activities.
• Arranges and coordinates urgent/emergent requests for transfer.
• Manages and coordinates centralized communications between referring and accepting provider services.
• Collaborates with physicians to assess urgency and priority of admission.
• Develops relevant mitigation strategies in collaboration with Medical Director to maximize safe patient intake and patient care resource needs.
• Collaborates with others to determine appropriateness of requests for outside transfers.
• Determines and assigns accurate patient admission type following established guidelines and criteria.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned.

Requirements

• Current Registered Nurse (RN) license in the state of New Hampshire.
• Experience in TeleHealth or similar nursing roles preferred.
• Strong critical thinking and communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team.
• Knowledge of nursing processes and patient care standards.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in TeleEmergency or ICU settings.
• Familiarity with electronic health records (EHR) systems.
• Certification in TeleHealth nursing.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $76k - $101k per year.
• Opportunities for professional development and continuing education.