Registered Nurse - Nurse Coordinator (Float)

Summary The Nurse Coordinator provides comprehensive case management and care coordination for patients across Vascular Surgery and multiple Medicine-Surgery specialties at VA Puget Sound. This role supports complex patient needs, facilitates pre- and post-operative care, manages patient communication, and ensures timely follow-up of specialty testing and imaging. Responsibilities Duties include but are not limited to: Serves as the Primary Nurse Coordinator for the Plastic Surgery service, with additional responsibility to offer float coverage to other specialty areas as needed. Delivers Medicine Specialty coverage across Cardiology, Endocrinology, Infectious Disease, Neurology, Rheumatology, Pulmonary, and Sleep Medicine. Supports Surgery Specialty coverage across Cardiothoracic Surgery, General Surgery, Gynecology, Neurosurgery, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Otolaryngology (ENT), Plastics, Podiatry, Urology, and Vascular Surgery. Cross-trains across multiple specialty clinics to ensure adequate coverage in areas with staffing gaps, extended leave, or vacancies. Performs case management for Medicine and Surgery patients referred from VISN 20, ensuring coordinated and patient-centered care. Assists with continuity of care for Veterans with complex or chronic medical conditions requiring long-term coordination. Facilitates surgical and procedural care, including pre- and post-operative education, travel and lodging arrangements, social work collaboration, and follow-up needs. Delivers effective patient and family education related to disease processes, medications, diagnostic procedures, and treatment plans. Manages communication with patients through phone calls, secure messaging, and CPRS alerts to ensure timely and accurate information exchange. Collaborates effectively with interdisciplinary team members to promote safe, efficient, and high-quality patient care. Ensures specialty-ordered testing and imaging are appropriately documented, tracked, and communicated, with timely notification of results to patients as required by VA policy. VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 7:30 am - 4:00 pm Compressed/Flexible: Available Telework: Not available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Requirements Conditions of Employment U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA. Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959. Subject to background/security investigation. Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment. Must pass pre-employment physical examination. Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). You may be required to serve a probationary period. Complete all application requirements detailed in the

Created: 2026-05-06