RN Care Manager Weekend

About This Role

This role involves actively participating in multi-disciplinary rounds, communicating with patients and families about healthcare decisions, and assessing readmitted patients. The Care Manager will organize care conferences and document discharge plans according to standard work.

Responsibilities

• Actively participate in multi-disciplinary rounds to review changes in patient status, progression, level of care, and discharge plans for all assigned patients.
• Identify resources necessary at discharge and ensure a timely transition, escalating care delays to leadership as appropriate.
• Communicate with and educate patients and families regarding emotional, social, and financial impacts of illness.
• Mobilize family/community resources to meet identified needs while advocating for patient and family empowerment in making health care decisions and accessing needed services.
• Assess readmitted patients for the patient’s and family’s perceived reasons for the readmission.
• Organize and facilitate patient and family care conferences with the multidisciplinary team.
• Document discharge planning evaluation, ongoing assessment, discharge plans, MDRs, barriers to progression of care, avoidable days, and patient and family needs according to standard work.

Requirements

• 2+ years medical/hospital nursing experience
• Associate's of Nursing
• Leadership skills
• Process and Outcome data analysis skills
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize levels of importance
• Customer service skills
• Ability to work and communicate with people of all social, economic, and cultural backgrounds; be flexible, open-minded and adaptable to change
• Effective organizational skills
• Computer proficiency with Outlook e-mail and electronic medical records
• Flexible in a complex and changing healthcare environment
• Knowledge of community resources and post-acute care programs across the continuum
• Knowledge of clinical and social factors that affect the patient's functional status at discharge
• Knowledge of CMS Conditions of Participation for Discharge Planning
• Conflict management and resolution skills
• Teamwork principles
• Registered Nurse (RN)

Qualifications

• Associate's of Nursing
• 2+ years medical/hospital nursing experience

Nice to Have

• Bachelor's of Nursing
• Prior Care Management/Utilization Management experience
• Certified Case Manager (CCM)
• Accredited Case Manager (ACM)

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits