Virtual Critical Care Nurse

Job Summary

Provides remote consultative and supportive nursing care to Intensive Care Units (ICU) to multiple medical centers utilizing in room camera and EPIC technology from a remote, centralized hub. Collaborates with ICU doctors and nurses provide timely intervention for critically ill patients to achieve optimal patient outcomes.

Essential Responsibilities

• Performs video monitoring and assessment of ICU patient data. Performs safety rounding of ICU patient rooms. Collaborates with the ICU doctor located in the remote hub to ensure timely consultation and intervention on ICU patients requiring immediate intervention.
• Responds to request by ICU RNs for nursing care consultation on ICU patients. Works remotely with bedside nurses in providing real time, clinical decision support for ICU patients with conditions requiring immediate attention such as physiologic changes resulting from actions or inactions of the care team during evening and night shifts.
• Collaborates in continuous performance improvement activities with remote interprofessional teams ito achieve optimal patient and family outcomes. Leverages technology in gathering and evaluating quality metrics as a means to measure and report on patients data. Reviews critical care quality metrics.
  

Experience

Basic Qualifications:

• Five (5) years minimum experience working in Intensive Care Units (ICU)
• One (1) year of Quality RN experience, ICU supervisory or Clinical Nurse Specialist specializing in Critical Care.
  

Education

• Bachelors degree in nursing, business administration, economics, health care administration, operation research, public health administration, or other related field.
  

License, Certification, Registration

• Critical Care Registered Nurse Certificate within 12 months of hire OR Critical-Care Registered Nurse (Tele-ICU) - Adult (AACN) within 12 months of hire OR Critical-Care Registered Nurse Knowledge Professional - Pediatric (AACN) within 12 months of hire OR Critical-Care Registered Nurse Knowledge Professional - Neonatal (AACN) within 12 months of hire OR Critical-Care Registered Nurse Knowledge Professional - Adult (AACN) within 12 months of hire
• Registered Nurse License (California)
  

Additional Requirements

• Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree in Nursing or related field.