RN Case Manager -Home Visits - Jefferson County Region

HCR Home Care • Watertown, NY

21h • $80,000 - $88,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The RN Case Manager will administer skilled nursing care to patients requiring professional nursing service. Teach and supervise the family and other members of the nursing team. Perform these services in accordance with the physician’s orders. This role involves providing and coordinating quality patient care, maintaining a full caseload, and meeting productivity goals with accurate, timely documentation. The RN Case Manager is responsible for managing each patient’s care efficiently and cost-effectively to achieve positive patient outcomes, regardless of payer. They oversee the overall plan of care and its outcomes, including care delivered by other nursing staff (LPN, HHA), who must be directed and supervised by the RN Case Manager.

Requirements

• Associate’s degree in Nursing required.
• Current, valid RN license issued by NYS Department of Education required.
• Minimum one year home care experience
• 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

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing 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, evaluating the need for and frequency of home health aide services, interpreting agency services, meeting regulatory requirements and 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 to include skilled nursing services, treatments and preventive procedures ordered by the physician, initiating preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures as appropriate for the patient’s care and safety, observing signs and symptoms and reporting to the physician reactions to treatments, including drugs and changes in the patient’s physical or emotional condition, and teaching, supervising, and counseling the patient and caregivers regarding the nursing care needs and other related problems of the patient at home.
• 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, making revisions in the nursing care plan as needed, recording supervisory visits conducted with the Home Health Aide, 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