Registered Nurse - Case Manager w/sign-on bonus - 5403

Vantage Search Group•Twentynine Palms, CA

11d•$124,800 - $156,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse - Case Manager will work at Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms in California and participate in all phases of the Case Management Program (CMP), ensuring the program meets established case management standards of care. The role provides nursing expertise across assessment, planning, implementation, coordination, and monitoring, and identifies opportunities for case management while integrating local processes. The nurse develops local strategies using inpatient, outpatient, onsite, and telephonic case management, and creates tools such as patient-identification and assessment tools, clinical practice guidelines, algorithms, case-management software, and community-resource databases. The role integrates case management with utilization management and nursing case management with social work case management, while maintaining liaison with community agencies and organizations. Responsibilities also include accurately collecting and documenting patient-care data; developing treatment plans with preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitative, psychosocial, and clinical interventions to support continuity of care and optimal wellness; establishing mechanisms for proper treatment-plan implementation and post-discharge follow-up in ambulatory and community settings; and providing health-care instruction to patients and/or caregivers based on identified learning needs. The schedule is Monday through Friday, with 8.5 hours scheduled between 7:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. There are no weekends, holidays, call, or call-back. The position offers a $5,000 sign-on bonus paid with the first paycheck and a base salary of $60.00–$67.00 per hour, depending on experience.

Requirements

Associate degree in Nursing from a college or university accredited by ACEN or CCNE.
At least 1 year of post-graduate clinical RN experience within the past 2 years.
Current, full, active, and unrestricted Registered Nurse license.
Current AHA or ARC BLS Healthcare Provider certification.
Ability to pass a government background check/security clearance.
Possess or obtain within 18 months of employment one of the listed case-management, disability-management, rehabilitation, occupational-health, continuity-of-care, rehabilitation-counseling, or care-management certifications.

Responsibilities

Participate in all phases of the Case Management Program and ensure it meets established case-management standards of care.
Provide nursing expertise throughout the case-management process, including assessment, planning, implementation, coordination, and monitoring.
Identify opportunities for case management and identify and integrate local case-management processes.
Develop and implement local strategies using inpatient, outpatient, onsite, and telephonic case management.
Develop and implement case-management support tools, including patient-identification and assessment tools, clinical practice guidelines, algorithms, case-management software, and community-resource databases.
Integrate case management with utilization management and integrate nursing case management with social work case management.
Maintain liaison with appropriate community agencies and organizations.
Accurately collect and document patient-care data.
Develop treatment plans incorporating preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitative, psychosocial, and clinical interventions to ensure continuity of care and optimal wellness.
Establish mechanisms for proper implementation of patient treatment plans and post-discharge follow-up in ambulatory and community health-care settings.
Provide health-care instruction to patients and/or caregivers based on identified learning needs.