RN - Home Health (Days) Kāne‘ohe, HI

Mobile Health Team Inc•Kaneohe, HI

22h•Onsite

About The Position

Mobile Health Team Inc. is seeking an experienced Registered Nurse - Home Health for a 13-week travel assignment in Kāne‘ohe, HI. The position involves providing excellent patient care by assisting in collaboration, development, implementation, revision, and reporting of the case management program. The RN acts as a liaison between the patient, family, nurse, physicians, multidisciplinary team, and the patient's healthcare benefactor to optimize outcomes, and serves as a consultant to the healthcare team on specific patient items. Key responsibilities include leading the coordination of patient care with other disciplines, monitoring the appropriateness and timeliness of care, ensuring the interdisciplinary care plan is consistent with the patient’s clinical course and covered services, and discussing resource utilization with physicians. The role focuses on complex patients, frequent emergency department utilizers, chronic pain and substance abuse patients, and homeless patients, while also collaborating with acute care case managers, coordinating patient transfers, providing oversight for regulatory/accreditation compliance, and managing frequent emergency department visitors.

Requirements

2+ year Medicare-certified home health agency experience is required
Travel experience is required
An active and clear driver's license and car insurance are required
Homecare Homebase and OASIS are required
COVID and FLU vaccine is required; Will not take declination!
Hawaii license is required
Strong communication, professionalism, and reliability
Drug screen and background check (facility required)
Additional facility onboarding forms as assigned

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree
Case Manager experience

Responsibilities

Provides excellent patient care by assisting in collaboration, development, implementation, revision and reporting of the case management program.
Acts as a liaison between the patient, family, nurse, physicians, multidisciplinary team, and the patient's healthcare benefactor to optimize outcomes.
Serves as a consultant to the healthcare team on specific patient items.
Leads the coordination of patient care with other disciplines within the care team, monitoring the appropriateness and timeliness of care.
Ensures the interdisciplinary care plan is consistent with the patient’s clinical course, continuing care needs and covered services by monitoring diagnostic testing, treatments, procedures, and other aspects of patient care as appropriate for acute care.
Discusses with physicians the appropriateness of resource utilization, consultations, treatment plan, estimated length of stay, and discharge plan.
Focuses on complex patients, frequent emergency department utilizers, chronic pain and substance abuse patients, and homeless patients.
Collaborates with acute care case managers to ensure appropriateness of ongoing care.
Coordinates the transfer of patients to tertiary centers, including the transfer of patient information required for continuity of ongoing treatment and services.
Provides oversight and collects data required for regulatory/accreditation compliance.
Manages frequent emergency department visitors by conducting a focus study review of the previous and current admissions.