Registered Nurse-telehealth

Description

**About Decypher**

Decypher is a leading integrator of professional, technology, and management solutions and services. We provide our services globally to Federal, Commercial, Local and State clients. Our employees are our most valuable asset and play an integral role in the success of Decypher and our clients. Working at Decypher is not a job, but a career where your talent and energy is respected and you can personally make a difference. Decypher invites you to join our professional team. Decypher is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/D/V).

**Responsibilities**
- Provides independent, comprehensive nursing care on-site and remotely to expand access to multifaceted acute, routine, and specialty care consultation services, to include primary care, surgical, behavioral health, traumatic brain injury, and other specialty services as required.
- Supports the individual patient telehealth/telemedicine encounter by clinically presenting the patient to remote licensed independent providers using telehealth/telemedicine technologies.
- Communicates directly with the evaluating remote licensed independent provider regarding pertinent patient demographic and clinical information (e.g. patient demographics, chief complaint, history and physical, radiographs, lab work, etc.), prior to and during the telehealth encounter.
- Prepares the patient for the telehealth encounter by appropriately positioning for physical examination.
- Educates patient/family to promote expectation management regarding what to expect during the encounter to include the use of tele-electronic devices and potential for audio-video delays.
- Maintains the quality and safety of the exam room to include the availability of necessary equipment to support the telehealth/telemedicine encounter.
- Develops and implements an individualized patient plan of care supporting the patient’s psychosocial characteristics to include cultural, language, coping, ability to understand the telehealth/telemedicine encounter, and/or physical disability.
- Critically reviews all instructions and information exchanged during the telehealth encounter with the licensed independent provider and patient after the session has concluded.
- Coordinates patient direct and network referrals, telehealth/telemedicine discharge instructions, and telephonic follow up as appropriate upon the conclusion of the telehealth/telemedicine visit to ensure continuity of care across the clinical continuum.

**Required Experience and Skills**
- 3 years prior nursing experience (inpatient or outpatient) required and outpatient nursing experience highly desired.

**Desired Education and Experience**
- Must hold a full, current, and unrestricted license in a State, Territory, Commonwealth, or the District of Columbia Contract requirements
- Bachelors of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree from an accredited school of nursing
- Nursing certification in Telehealth or other nursing specialty highly desired but not required