Registered Nurse; RN - Home Health Case Management

Position: Registered Nurse (RN) - Home Health Case Management - $73K-104K per year

Chen Med is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) Home Health Case Management for a nursing job in Camden, New Jersey.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty:
  Case Management
• Discipline:
  RN
• Duration:
  Ongoing
• Employment Type:
  
  Staff

Salary will be competitive and based on equitable consideration of qualifications and experience.

We’re unique. You should be, too.

We’re changing lives every day. For both our patients and our team members. Are you innovative and entrepreneurial minded? Is your work ethic and ambition off the charts? Do you inspire others with your kindness and joy?

We’re different than most primary care providers. We’re rapidly expanding and we need great people to join our team.

* This is a full time role requiring Monday through Friday hours from 8am-5pm (no nights/weekends). You will be on-site at an assigned hospital daily from 9am-3pm, working remote for the remaining hours.

The Acute Care Manager, Complex Care (RN) is responsible for achieving positive patient outcomes, managing quality of care across the continuum of care with efficient allocation of resources. This role will first and foremost serve as an advocate for our patients and families as they navigate through external providers and healthcare systems. The Acute Care Nurse is an important member of the Complex Care Team and will use all available resources and leverage other members of the healthcare care team to develop effective plans of care and with focus on delivering high levels of longitudinal care coordination.

The Acute Care Nurse role also involves establishing relationships with patients’ families and care givers, primary care physicians, hospitalists, specialists, social workers, other case managers and nurses, acute and post-acute facilities, home health care companies, and health plans. The success of this role is determined by management of patients in hospital to ensure patients receive safe and timely discharge to the lowest level of care.

This position will focus on health promotion for a senior population providing onsite hospital visits communicating and coordinating care with hospitalist/hospital staff and patient providing appropriate level of care recommendation (inpatient vs observation), using our internal charting system to report daily inpatient updates and working with hospital team on an expeditious discharge, planning to next level of care. The Acute Care Nurse anticipates the need for post-acute and/or long-term care, from day one (1) of hospital stay, providing support to all parties involved.

Daily updates in our charting system are required on each patient using the hospitals EMR system and onsite reviews.

Acute Care Nurse follows the patient throughout the continuum of care when patient discharges to a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) or Long-Term Care (LTC) to provide weekly updates on discharge and ensure that upon discharge patients is connect back to the care of the primary care provider. The Acute Care Nurse will provide warm hand off to the Community Care Nurse when patient is discharged to home and/or from post-acute care facilities.

The Acute Care Nurse adheres to strict departmental goals/objectives, standards of performance, regulatory compliance, quality patient care compliance and policies and procedures.
ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Daily presence of team members at assigned hospitals during core hours as determined by team workflow and that team maintains a balanced caseload.
• Detects areas of opportunities regarding proper allocation of healthcare resources in an acute and post-acute setting. Identifies appropriateness of inpatient vs. observation status.
• Recognizes and manages safety risks (completes a social assessment), identifies functional status (ADLs and PT needs), discusses medications and self-management, identifies and corrects knowledge deficits.
• Supports, collaborates and partners with the Complex Care and Clinical Strategy Teams on the day-to-day execution of our acute care standard operating procedures.
• Conducts hospital bedside discussion explaining our Care Management/Disease Management program with verbal introduction to their Community Care Manager for home…