RN Case Manager - Weekends

UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

UT Southwestern is seeking an RN Case Manager to work full-time weekend shifts. This role involves leading multidisciplinary teams to develop and update patient care plans, implementing clinical pathways, and managing care transitions. The RN Case Manager will collaborate with various departments to optimize patient care resources, coordinate care for efficient patient throughput, and ensure patients and families are prepared for discharge. Effective communication with healthcare providers, patients, and families is essential, as is ensuring timely follow-up appointments and documented discharge instructions. This position is security-sensitive and requires adherence to EEO policies.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited Nursing program
• Current Texas (or NLC Nursing Licensure Compact license)
• BASIC LIFE SUPPORT (BLS) course accredited by the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross (ARC)

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
• 2 years experience as an RN
• Experience in acute care hospital setting

Responsibilities

• Leads multidisciplinary team developing, refining, updating, and communicating plan of care for defined patient population.
• Implements clinical pathways including educational needs of patients/families, monitoring and updating for deviation from plan.
• Partners with community liaisons to proactively manage care transitions assuring seamless transitions between care settings and communications with ongoing providers.
• Collaborates with Social Work, Utilization Review, Clinical Documentation Specialists, and others as necessary to maximize financial/care resources for patient and family.
• Coordinates care with care team to maximize patient throughput and minimize length of stay.
• Rounds on patients daily to monitor & assure effective patient/family preparation for discharge assuring completion of learning/discharge objectives prior to time of planned discharge.
• Communicates effectively with other health care providers, patients, families, other hospital personnel and visitors. Demonstrates effective communication with adolescents, adults and older adults.
• Act as a liaison with various departments and ancillary services to ensure all pending orders and results are received in a timely manner.
• Ensures follow up appointments are scheduled prior to patient discharge. Responsible for ensuring that discharge instructions related to care coordination needs are documented in discharge instructions and that those elements are understood by patient and family/caregiver.
• Collaborates with physicians, unit manager, unit staff, and interdisciplinary team to ensure safe and timely discharge.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100% coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree