RN Care Coordinator - Care Transformation - FT - Day

Stormont Vail Health • Topeka, KS

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Care Coordinator serves in an expanded nursing role to collaborate with patients and their health care team including Primary Care Providers, specialists, and hospitals to provide a model of care that ensures the delivery of quality, efficient and cost-effective healthcare services across the continuum. The Care Coordinator functions as a coordinator of patient care, assesses, plans, implements, monitors, and evaluates all options and services with the goal of optimizing the patient's health status. The Care Coordinator integrates evidence-based clinical guidelines, preventative guidelines, protocols, and other metrics in the development of transitions of care plans that are patient-centric, promoting quality and efficiency in the delivery of healthcare for the targeted high-risk population. The Care Coordinator monitors patients across the health continuum with a focus on effective and safe transitions through the healthcare system with a goal to optimize resources and reduce avoidable readmissions back to acute care. The Care Coordinator manages performance feedback metrics to further refine the care model to maximize clinical, quality, and fiscal outcomes for the targeted population. The delivery of professional nursing care at Stormont-Vail HealthCare is guided by Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring and the theory of Shared governance, both of which are congruent with the mission, vision, and values of the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree of Science in Nursing (BSN) Required
• 2 years Nursing experience in an acute or ambulatory setting. Required
• Registered Nurse - KSBN Required
• Drivers License - DMV Current Valid Driver’s License and Clean MVR with 3-year baseline and annual MVR review. Required
• Basic Life Support - BLS Required within 90 days of hire.

Nice To Haves

• Case/care management experience. Preferred

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with specialty, primary care, social work staff, and other care team members to ensure optimal care coordination for the patient.
• Serves as the point of contact for their patient population, or the care team to coordinate/manage health needs.
• Initiates communication with patients upon learning they have been identified as high risk / targeted population.
• Pulls data from multiple systems and merge together to create a complete performance picture related to targeted populations. Implements interventions based on data and established guidelines. Monitors data for trends and individual outliers. Analyzes data for process improvement opportunities to impact patient outcomes.
• Optimizes patient care transitions by: o Collaborates with inpatient teams to support discharge plans o Coordinates post-hospitalization care and discharge planning o Assures collaboration with primary care, social work & PCP care manager, other care team members, and community supports to ensure optimal care coordination for the patient
• Guides patients through the health care system o Facilitates interaction and communication with health care staff providers. o Provides disease/treatment specific education to both patients and families o Oversees scheduled appointment(s) o Oversees patient testing and admissions o Reviews patient records o Efficiently documents medical information using the appropriate forms and/or electronic applications o Collects and tracks data related to targeted populations -Implements interventions based on data and established guidelines -Monitors data for trends and individual outliers - Analyzes data for process improvement opportunities to impact patient outcomes
• Participates in system wide/department patient care quality improvement activities as well as standards developments. Works closely with the cross-functional teams to define analysis needs, identify trends and propose solutions.
• Appropriately delegates tasks and duties in the direction and coordination of health care team members, patient care, and department activities in accordance with the Kansas State Nurse Practice Act; demonstrates knowledge of KSNPA statutes and regulations.

What This Job Offers

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