RN, Care Manager (Per Diem. Day Shift)
About The Position
Adventist Health Hanford is a 173-bed hospital with outpatient clinics providing primary and specialty care in Kings County’s Central Valley. The RN, Care Manager provides patient care by helping develop, implement, revise, and report on the case management program. The role serves as a liaison among patients, families, nurses, physicians, the multidisciplinary team, and patients’ healthcare benefactors to optimize outcomes, and consults with the healthcare team on patient-specific matters. The Care Manager coordinates a continuum of care for a defined patient population from pre-admission through post-discharge and helps patients and families proceed efficiently through hospitalization. The position focuses on coordinating and monitoring care, resource use, transfers, and regulatory and accreditation compliance. Adventist Health requires associates to receive required vaccinations as a condition of employment and annually thereafter where applicable; medical and religious exemptions may apply. Adventist Health 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) preferred.
- Experience in a care management role preferred.
- Case management certification preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead coordination of patient care with other care-team disciplines, monitoring the appropriateness and timeliness of care.
- Monitor diagnostic testing, treatments, procedures, and other aspects of acute care to ensure the interdisciplinary care plan aligns with the patient’s clinical course, continuing care needs, and covered services.
- 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, patients with substance abuse, and homeless patients.
- Collaborate with acute care case managers to ensure the appropriateness of ongoing care.
- Coordinate patient transfers to tertiary centers and transfer 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
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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