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The RN Case Manager is responsible for assessing, planning, facilitating, and advocating for options and services through a continuum of care from admission through discharge on assigned patients. The RN Case Manager performs this role in such a manner as to meet the individuals’ health needs while promoting hospital throughput, quality, and cost-effective outcomes.
Required Behaviors:
• As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization: Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability, and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.
Required Qualifications:
• Current RN license in the state of New Mexico
• Assertive and diplomatic communication skills
• Self-motivated and accountable
• Team-Oriented
• Nursing experience
Preferred Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree (BSN)
• Accredited Case Manager Certification (ACM)
• Cerner experience
• Case Management experience
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Provide and document initial and ongoing transition of care assessments of the patients’ needs for services in collaboration with the patient, family, and healthcare team
• Communicate and collaborate with the patient and patient’s family toward a safe and outcome-based discharge plan
• Provide patient/family education to facilitate an understanding of their hospital and post-hospital course, their status assignment and discharge appeal rights and provide advocacy for their care
• Monitor and evaluate utilization of services to focus on the best treatment and approach for the patient promoting the timely progression of interventions, utilization of resources and expected outcomes within a length of stay consistent with external regulations and standards
• Collaborate with other members of the healthcare team to ensure patients receive the right care, at the right time, in the right place, using the right resources
• Provide transition planning coordination to include identifying needs and implementing referrals to other clinical care providers. Evaluate patient progress and revise the care plan if needed
• Observation Management
• Maintain current knowledge of and follow CMS requirements
• Responsible for identifying and documenting barriers to care progression and escalating cases appropriately
• Collaborate effectively with departmental staff to achieve goals and objective
• Enhance professional growth and development through participation in education programs, review of current literature, and attendance at staff and in-service meetings
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC’s Service Standards into their daily work:
Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship
Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions:
• Prolonged standing/sitting/walking
• Fast-paced environment
• High level of activity with many interruptions
• Possible exposure to communicable disease
• Repetitive motions, i.e.: keyboard usage
Sensory requirements:
• The caregiver will need to be able to hear:
~ Alarms on equipment/fire alarms/overhead announcements
~ Patients/families verbal discussion
~ Instructions/feedback from other healthcare providers
• The caregiver will need to be able to see:
~ Focus on close-up and distant objects
~ Have intact: peripheral vision and depth perception