Position Overview
**Job Summary and Responsibilities**
As our Natl Internal Traveler, Virtual Patient Companion, you will be responsible for continually monitoring patients identified as high risk for falling, elopement, substance use, disorientation, or pulling out lines/tubes, and other potential concerns, across multiple facilities nationwide.
Every day you will monitor patients from a System Office, utilizing live, non-recorded streaming video equipment to ensure patients interact safely and appropriately with their environment. You will accurately recognize signs of patient agitation, impulsiveness, and illicit drug/alcohol use; take appropriate action to notify staff of patient safety concerns; establish and maintain effective communication with patients, colleagues, and bedside staff; and report potentially dangerous changes in patient behavior, escalating communications as necessary.
To be successful in this role, you will apply your expertise in patient observation an...