Registered Nurse (RN) - Home Health Virtual Care
Mass General Brigham Healthcare at Home
Boston, MA
3x12 hrs, Days

At Mass General Brigham, we believe in recognizing and rewarding the unique value each team member brings to our organization. When determining base pay, we take a comprehensive approach that considers your skills, relevant experience, education, certifications, and other critical factors. The pay information provided offers an estimate based on the minimum job qualifications, but it does not encompass all the elements that contribute to your total compensation package.

This RN Virtual position will be located at our New Logistic Command Center- Assembly Row, Somerville, MA. 36 hour/Day 7A-7P The position to which you are applying is represented by a collective bargaining unit, Massachusetts Nurses Association. The MGB Home Hospital Virtual Registered Nurse (VRN) is responsible for providing essential elements of the inpatient care delivery model into the patient’s defined living space. The MGB Home Hospital VRN provides quality care to patients through the implementation of nursing process, applied through a team-based nursing model, employing technology and remote care coordination to facilitate care delivery. The MGB Home Hospital VRN will provide high quality, patient-centered, nursing care to our acute care patients during hospitalization. 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 acute care patient populations in the home. Leveraging the resources and expertise of the MGB Home Hospital 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 and works with the clinical care team to provide care, trend data and respond accordingly. · Provide 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. · Maintain and practice 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. · Serve as a role model for professional nursing practice. · Utilize nursing knowledge to identify, prevent and or solve complex acute and/or recurring patient care problems. · Sharing expertise with multidisciplinary teams to serve as a staff resource. · Supporting research efforts to advance knowledge and promote evidence-based practice. · Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned by Nursing Leadership. · Provide medication teaching, assist with medication administration and education to patients and families. Collaborate closely with pharmacy and care team regarding medication reconciliation process. · This RN will provide nursing care to patients in a team model, as well as, individual. · Timely documentation of all nursing care to reflect in epic. · Answers, directs, and provides follow up on incoming clinical patient concerns. Quality and Safety · Ensure compliance with reporting requirements in RL Solutions. · Participate in quality and safety education, rounds, and evaluations. · Promoting professional practice and a culture of safety; required to engage in process improvement efforts. · Must be able to work in a HIPPA compliant environment. Qualifications Education · Graduation from an accredited school of nursing. BSN preferred. · Emergency Nursing and Critical Care nursing experience is preferred. · BLS · Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in Massachusetts · Excellent clinical and interpersonal skills. Experience · Recent 3 years bedside nursing required. Emergency & Medical/Surgical Experience is preferred. · Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills required. · Experience working in a start-up environment and or willingness to adapt to continuous change encouraged. · Telehealth, remote-patient monitoring experience preferred. · Proficiency with Epic, Microsoft outlook, Microsoft teams and web-based skills preferred.