RN, Care Manager (Part-time, Day Shift)

Adventist Health • Selma, CA

9d • $54 - $74 • Onsite

About The Position

The RN, Care Manager provides patient care by collaborating in the development, implementation, revision, and reporting of 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 as a consultant to the healthcare team on patient-specific matters. The Care Manager coordinates care across the continuum for a defined patient population, from pre-admission through post-discharge, and helps patients and families move efficiently through hospitalization.

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 and monitor the appropriateness and timeliness of care.
• Ensure the interdisciplinary care plan aligns with the patient’s clinical course, continuing-care needs, and covered services by monitoring diagnostic 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 and frequent emergency department utilizers, as well as chronic pain, substance abuse, and homeless patients; collaborate with acute care case managers to ensure ongoing care is appropriate.
• Coordinate transfers to tertiary centers, including the transfer of patient 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed