Inpatient Care Manager (RN)

Atlantic Health System • Summit, NJ

7d • Onsite

About The Position

Responsible for providing care and services of selected member populations across the continuum of illness. Ensures effective utilization and monitors health care resources. Manages the interdisciplinary team to achieve optimal clinical and resource outcomes. Works with the Supervisor/Manager of Case Management to assess, plan, implement, coordinate, monitor and evaluate services and outcomes to maximize the health of the patient.

Requirements

• Registered Nurse (RN) license
• Experience in case management or care coordination
• Knowledge of healthcare resources and utilization management
• Ability to manage an interdisciplinary team
• Skills in patient/family assessment
• Proficiency in electronic medical records documentation
• Experience with discharge planning
• Understanding of clinical pathways and outcome analysis

Nice To Haves

• Experience in community outreach

Responsibilities

• Manages, coordinates, and facilitates the care delivered to patients through patient/family assessment and multidisciplinary collaboration.
• Ensures daily chart review, utilization reviews, coordination of discharge planning activities and comprehensive clinical documentation in the electronic medical record.
• Provides interdisciplinary patient care rounds, and identifies and works to resolve quality of care issues, barriers to the progression of care and discharge delays.
• Formulates, coordinates and implements discharge plans and an efficient plan of care to ensure safe, timely and effective discharge plan.
• Works with the interdisciplinary healthcare team to manage and assist the patient care plan.
• Performs variance tracking, outcome analysis and identifies problems to assess the effectiveness of the clinical pathways.
• Serves as a representative of the department and for the hospital community outreach.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level