Home Health RN Case Manager- Palatine, Kildeer, Long Grove, Deer Park, surrounding areas

Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation•Lake Zurich, IL

15h•Hybrid

About The Position

This full-time position is for a Home Health RN Case Manager serving the South Lake county area, including Palatine, Kildeer, Long Grove, Deer Park, and surrounding areas. The role involves developing and maintaining therapeutic relationships, providing individualized care, and collaborating with patients and families throughout the healthcare continuum. The position requires assessing patient needs, planning and implementing care, and mobilizing appropriate resources to ensure quality, cost-effective care. The RN will also participate in quality improvement initiatives, adapt practice to evidence-based literature, and ensure regulatory compliance. Education and development of patients, families, peers, and colleagues are key aspects of the role. The Nurse/Patient Relationship involves adaptive communication, promoting comfort, and involving patients/families in care planning. Assuring/Improving Quality Care focuses on facilitating patient rights, mobilizing resources, adapting to standards, participating in quality improvement, reducing risk, and meeting regulatory requirements. Patient/Staff Education emphasizes meeting learning needs, utilizing resources, creating educational environments, and assessing readiness to learn. The Nursing Process is used as a problem-solving model, involving recognition of clinical changes, evaluation of care plans, sound clinical decision-making for complex patients, prioritization, and delegation. Initiating referrals, discharge planning, and ethical decision-making are also crucial. Leadership/Collaboration/Professional Development involves respecting peers and disciplines, participating in the care team, demonstrating leadership, developing self and others, participating in unit activities, maintaining knowledge, and demonstrating effective communication and conflict resolution skills. The role requires critiquing one's own practice and achieving required certifications or a Bachelor's Degree, along with earning a minimum of 10 contact hours per year.

Requirements

Graduate from an accredited school of nursing
One year of medical surgical experience
Has as demonstrated proficiency for the requirements for RN role
Good communication and interpersonal skills
Good documentation skills.
Computer skills
Good time management and organizational skills
Familiarity with patient care equipment
Current Illinois RN license
Current CPR
A valid driver’s license issued by the Division of Motor Vehicles.
Must be able to travel to all areas within the Advocate service area in all extremes of weather on all types of roads.
Must be willing to work occasional overtime if needed.
Must be able to assist with ambulation including turning and transferring patients up to 200 pounds.
Ability to lift up to 35 pounds without assistance. For patient lifts of over 35 pounds, or when patient is unable to assist with the lift, patient handling equipment is expected to be used, with at least one other associate, when available.

Nice To Haves

Earn 10 continuing education credits annually

Responsibilities

Develops and maintains a therapeutic relationship throughout the healthcare continuum.
Demonstrates adaptive communication styles based on individual patient needs.
Provides individualized care to promote physical and psychosocial comfort.
Assesses patient and family readiness and involves them in planning and implementing care.
Seeks consultation as needed.
Incorporates an individualized, holistic approach in the plan of care.
Facilitates the patient and family’s right to receive quality, cost effective care.
Mobilizes appropriate resources in response to situations that have the potential to negatively impact patient and family outcomes.
Adapts practice to the latest standards according to evidence-based literature.
Participates in quality/process improvement initiatives.
Participates in efforts to reduce risk and improve patient safety.
Meets regulatory and mandatory requirements on the unit.
Demonstrates a commitment to meeting the learning needs of patients and families.
Utilizes appropriate resources to meet those needs and achieve positive patient outcomes.
Assists in creating an environment that promotes educational growth opportunities for nursing peers and colleagues.
Assesses patient and family readiness to learn, and modifies approach as necessary.
Seeks out opportunities to enhance knowledge, skill, and competence of department members.
Demonstrates the use of nursing process as a problem-solving model.
Recognizes changes in clinical situations.
Evaluates and implements changes to the plan of care.
Consistently makes sound clinical decisions, demonstrating the ability to care for patients with complex problems.
Prioritizes and organizes patient care and ensures follow through with planned care.
Initiates referrals and discharge planning for assigned patients and actively coordinates utilizing the interdisciplinary approach.
Applies ethical decision making.
Monitors for confidentiality and assures appropriate business conduct.
Delegates correctly to unlicensed assistive personnel.
Seeks resources for disruptive behavior that impedes care delivery.
Demonstrates respect and understanding for peers and other clinical disciplines and participates as an effective member of the patient care team to formulate an integrated approach to care.
Demonstrates leadership behaviors and is committed to the development of self and others.
Participates in unit meetings and activities that improve patient care or administrative systems.
Utilizes available resources to maintain current knowledge base relevant to practice.
Demonstrates effective communication, feedback, and conflict resolution skills, promoting collaboration among healthcare team members.
Demonstrates ability to critique own nursing practice and achieves required certifications or Bachelor’s Degree.
Earns a minimum of 10 contact hours per year.