Professional Practice Nurse Care Manager

Children's Mercy KC • Kansas City, MO

23h • $38 • Onsite

About The Position

The Professional Practice Nurse Care Manager Lead manages new employee orientation and ongoing professional education to achieve leading practices and sustained outcomes across the Care Management Department. This individual is an EMR Superuser who arranges and oversees EMR optimizations to support staff efficiency, optimize professional practices, increase engagement with clinical teams, and optimize technology processes. Ensures all staff are employing care coordination best practices in their role to achieve organizational goals for patient satisfaction, clinical improvements, operational efficiencies, and financial growth. The Professional Practice Nurse Care Manager Lead is expert at the roles of Clinical Review Case Manager and Care Coordination Nurse Case Manager and provides support to larger team in addressing and resolving role specific concerns. This role improves efficiency and reduces health care costs as evidenced by decreased lengths of stay, decreased re-admissions, decreased denials, and increased patient satisfaction.
At Children’s Mercy, we are committed to ensuring that everyone feels welcomed within our walls. A successful candidate for this position will join us as we strive to create a workplace that reflects the community we serve, as well as our core values of kindness, curiosity, inclusion, team and integrity.
Additionally, it’s important to us that we remain transparent with all potential job candidates. Because we value the safety of the patients and families we serve, as well as the Children’s Mercy staff, we want to let you know that the seasonal influenza vaccine is a condition of employment for all employees in our organization. New employees must be willing to be vaccinated if found non-immune to measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) and chicken pox (varicella) and/or without evidence of tetanus, diphtheria, acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccination since 2005. If you are selected for this position, you will be asked to supply your immunization records as proof of vaccination. If you and have any concerns about receiving these vaccines, medical and/or religious exemptions can be further discussed with Human Resources.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree BSN and 3-5 years experience
• Experience as a care manager or demonstrated leadership skills in a previous role
• One of the following required upon hire: Licensed RN - MO, Registered Nurse Multistate License Missouri if residing in MO Licensed RN - KS, Registered Nurse Multistate License Kansas if residing in KS RN Compact license for all states besides KS and MO
• Certified Case Manager (CCM) Required within one year of hire
• Accredited Case Manager (ACM) Required within one year of hire
• Refer to Nursing and Advanced Practice Provider Licensure and Certification policy for required Life Support Certifications Required Upon Hire

Responsibilities

• Schedules and track new employee orientation to ensure new staff successfully demonstrate competencies to support the organization in optimizing clinical outcomes and financial margins.
• Schedules and tracks ongoing employee education to ensure all staff are current on mandatory annual educational requirements, competent on department annual educational requirements, current on care coordination best practices, and engaged in ongoing case management educational offerings.
• Functions as the department?s Electronic Record Superuser and represents the department in Electronic Record optimizations and implementations to improve efficiency, reduce administrative burden, optimize care coordination best practices, and improve communication with clinical and financial partners.
• Ensures all staff are employing care coordination best practices in their role to achieve organizational goals for patient satisfaction, clinical improvements, operational efficiencies, and financial growth.

Benefits

• The benefits plans at Children’s Mercy are one of many reasons we are recognized as one of the best places to work in Kansas City. Our plans are designed to meet the changing needs of our employees and their families.
• Learn more about Children’s Mercy benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time