RN Case Manager - Home Visits - Oswego Co.

HCR Home Care • Henrietta, NY

3d • $80,000 - $90,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The RN Case Manager will administer skilled nursing care to patients requiring professional nursing service. This role involves teaching and supervising the family and other members of the nursing team, performing services in accordance with the physician’s orders. The position is primarily in a non-office setting and may involve exposure to outdoor conditions. The working conditions are classified as medium work, requiring exertion of up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and negligible force frequently or constantly to move objects. Medium work involves both sitting and standing.

Requirements

• Current, valid RN license issued by NYS Department of Education required.
• Knowledge of State and Federal regulations, payer guidelines
• Excellent communication and critical thinking skills.
• Flexible and organized.
• Ability and desire to serve as a role model.

Nice To Haves

• Associate’s degree in Nursing required; Bachelor’s degree in Nursing preferred.
• Minimum one year home care experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide and coordinate quality patient care, maintain a full caseload, maintain productivity goals with consideration of case mix, and accurate, timely documentation.
• Manage each patient’s care as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible, to achieve positive patient outcomes regardless of payer.
• Responsible for the overall plan of care and the outcome of that care, including care delivered by other nursing staff (LPN, HHA) who must be directed and supervised by the RN Case Manager.
• Conduct admission and manage care of patient to the agency by obtaining a medical history, conducting a physical examination, evaluating the patient/family/home situation for health teaching and assistance availability, determining the need for home health aide services, interpreting agency services, meeting regulatory requirements, understanding various insurances, and practicing accepted nursing standards with regards to infection control.
• Develop and implement the nursing care plan.
• Provide skilled nursing care as outlined in the nursing care plan, including skilled nursing services, treatments, and preventive procedures ordered by the physician; initiating preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures; observing signs and symptoms and reporting to the physician; and teaching, supervising, and counseling the patient and caregivers.
• Oversee the care given by Home Health Aides to assigned patients by supervising and evaluating their care, applying documentation according to standards of nursing practice, utilizing computer skills for accurate documentation, documenting services rendered, noting changes in patient condition/family/home situation, revising the nursing care plan as needed, recording supervisory visits, evaluating patient care and progress, and closing charts of discharged patients.
• Other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

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