RN Case Manager Home Health

5600 Wellstar Home Health, LLC

9h • Onsite

About The Position

How would you like to work in a place where your contributions and ideas are valued? A place where you can serve with compassion, pursue excellence and honor every voice? At Wellstar, our mission is simple, yet powerful: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. We are proud to have become a shining example of what's possible when the brightest professionals dedicate themselves to making a difference in the healthcare industry, and in people's lives.

Requirements

• Minimum 1 year of Medical/Surgical Nursing Required
• Strong critical care assessment and clinical skills required.
• Must possess extremely strong critical care nursing skills.
• RN - Reg Nurse (Single State) or RN-COMPACT - RN - Multi-state Compact
• BLS - Basic Life Support or ARC-BLS - Amer Red Cross Basic Life Support or BLS-I - Basic Life Support - Instructor
• GADL - Georgia Driver's License or VSDL - Valid State Driver's License
• PVI - Private Vehicle insurance

Nice To Haves

• Home Health experience Preferred
• ICU experience Preferred
• Bachelors Nursing-Preferred
• OASIS knowledge preferred

Responsibilities

• Provides and supervises primary care to approximately 25-35 patients in their home setting, including age-appropriate interventions that meet physical, emotional, developmental, psychosocial and educational needs.
• Coordinates all disciplines throughout the episode of care.
• Communicates with all team members including RNs, LPNs, Therapists, Social Workers, Home Health Aides, the Physician, patient, family, and other internal or external individuals to ensure that the patient's plan of care is appropriately developed, implemented and that goals are met.
• Supervises the LPNs and Home Health Aides throughout the patient plan of care.
• Participates with leadership to develop and implement processes to continue improvement with patient and agency outcomes.
• Assesses, coordinates with other disciplines and manages patients total needs, following physicians orders, using the nursing process.
• Develops patients plan of care coordinating with other disciplines.
• Manages patient from admission through recerts to discharge and appropriately scheduling visits per physicians order: adjust frequency as needed, based on patient clinical status and MD order.
• Performs routine and complex nursing procedures to meet the need of the patient.
• Revises the plan of care based on patient need within physician orders, coordinating with other disciplines to ensure goals are met to achieve positive outcomes prior to discharge.
• Develops and supervises the care plan provided to the Home Health Aides.
• Reviews Plan of Care for patients with the Manager Home Health and other team members and support services.
• Maintains communication with physician reporting any changes that may affect the patients recovery.
• Provides patient/caregiver education to develop and encourage self care to achieve positive outcomes.
• Utilizes both verbal and written tools to facilitate learning and promotion of independence during recovery.
• Be aware and report concerns to authorities or agency leadership on any issues that affect patient or staff safety.
• Communicates patient status changes and lab results to the physician as appropriate.
• Participates in care team conferences.
• Responsible for checking voice mail box and staff messaging a minimum of once daily.
• Demonstrates knowledge and appropriate application of CMS/State, and Joint Commission regulatory guidelines.
• Responsible for accurate completion of required OASIS and visit documentation in the patients EMR.
• Completes all documentation within established timeframes.
• Participates in the orientation and education of new employees as appropriate.
• Responsible for attending continuing education and in-services as directed and needed.
• Responsible to remain current in clinical knowledge for the care of the home health patient.
• Receives training, supervision or direction from leadership as needed.
• Participates in department performance improvement activities (i.e. chart review, committees, etc.).
• Participates in system-wide committees as requested.
• Identifies methods for improving department performance/care.
• Assists in implementing performance improvement opportunities.
• Meets established productivity standards.
• Weekend and call rotation as required.
• Perform other duties as assigned by Home Health Leadership.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all WellStar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.

Benefits

• Join us and discover the support to do more meaningful work—and enjoy a more rewarding life.
• Connect with the most integrated health system in Georgia, and start a future that gives you more.

What This Job Offers

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