RN, Care Manager, Full Time, Day Shift
About The Position
Adventist Health Portland seeks a Registered Nurse Care Manager to coordinate care and support the case management program. The role collaborates in developing, implementing, revising, and reporting on the program, and serves as a liaison among patients, families, nurses, physicians, the multidisciplinary team, and patients’ healthcare benefactors. The Care Manager consults with the healthcare team, coordinates a continuum of care for a defined patient population from pre-admission through post-discharge, and helps patients and families move efficiently through hospitalization. The position leads coordination of patient care across disciplines, monitors care appropriateness and timeliness, and ensures interdisciplinary care plans align with clinical needs, continuing care requirements, and covered services. It works with physicians on resource utilization, consultations, treatment and discharge plans, and estimated length of stay, with particular attention to complex patients and other specified populations. The role also coordinates transfers to tertiary centers, supports regulatory and accreditation compliance, and reviews frequent emergency department visits. Adventist Health requires associates to receive required vaccinations as a condition of employment and annually thereafter where applicable; medical and religious exemptions may apply. The organization participates in E-Verify.
Requirements
- Registered Nurse (RN) licensure in the state of practice is required.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (BSN).
- Experience in a care management role.
- Case management certification.
Responsibilities
- Lead coordination of patient care with other disciplines on the care team, monitoring appropriateness and timeliness.
- Ensure interdisciplinary care plans align with the patient’s clinical course, continuing care needs, and covered services by monitoring testing, treatments, procedures, and other aspects of acute care.
- Discuss resource utilization, consultations, treatment plans, estimated length of stay, and discharge plans with physicians.
- Focus on complex patients, frequent emergency department utilizers, chronic pain patients, substance abuse patients, and homeless patients.
- Collaborate with acute care case managers to ensure ongoing care is appropriate.
- Coordinate transfers to tertiary centers, including transferring information needed for continuity of treatment and services.
- Provide oversight and collect data required for regulatory and accreditation compliance.
- Manage frequent emergency department visitors by conducting focused reviews of previous and current admissions.
- Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
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