RN, Care Manager, Per Diem, Day Shift

Adventist Health • Simi Valley, CA

22h • Onsite

About The Position

Adventist Health Simi Valley, a leading healthcare provider in Southern California since 1965, is seeking an RN, Care Manager. The facility includes a 144-bed hospital and home care services across Ventura County. This role involves providing excellent patient care by collaborating in the development, implementation, revision, and reporting of the case management program. The Care Manager acts as a liaison between the patient, family, nurses, physicians, multidisciplinary team, and the patient's healthcare benefactor to optimize outcomes. They serve as a consultant to the healthcare team on specific patient items and coordinate a continuum of care for a defined patient population from pre-admission through post-discharge, ensuring patients and families efficiently navigate their hospitalization.

Requirements

• Registered Nurse (RN) licensure in the state of practice

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN)
• Experience in a care management role
• Case management certification

Responsibilities

• 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 and 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 patients, substance abuse patients and homeless patients.
• Collaborates with acute care case managers to ensure appropriateness on 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 and accreditation compliance.
• Manages frequent emergency department visitors by conducting a focus study review of the previous and current admissions.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees