Registered Nurse

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Minimum 36 hours Kalamazoo, MI, US

• The RN Care Manager serves in an expanded healthcare role to collaborate with specialists, members of the healthcare team and patients/families to ensure the delivery of quality, efficient and cost effective healthcare services.
• Develops and assesses plan of care with patient/family, implements, monitors, and evaluates all options with the goal of optimizing patient’s health status.
• Utilizes evidence based clinical guidelines, preventive guidelines and protocols to develop patient centered care plans.

• Consults and communicates care objectives with primary care providers, specialists and community resources to aid patient in achieving healthcare goals.
• Identifies the targeted population by referral from primary care provider or patient registries.
• Assesses the healthcare, education and psychosocial needs of the patient/family.
• Identifies and maintains relationships with referral and community resources.
• Collaborates with primary care provider, patient, the healthcare team as well as community resources.
• Develops an individualized plan of care with targeted interventions, monitors patient and family’s response to plan of care and adjusts plan of care as needed.
• Provides patient with self-management tools/support to build ability for self-care.
• Maintains required documentation for all case management activities.
• Reviews current literature regarding engagement strategies, communication strategies and incorporates best practices into clinical setting.
• Maintains records and enters information into database as required.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Basic Life Support/CPR training
• Demonstrates customer focused interpersonal skills to interact in an effective manner with practitioners, interdisciplinary health care team, community agencies, patients/families with diverse opinions, values and religious and cultural beliefs.
• Demonstrates excellent written, verbal and listening skills.
• Demonstrates positive relationship building skills and critical analysis skills.
• Demonstrates ability to work autonomously and be accountable for practice.
• Demonstrates ability to influence and negotiate individual and group decisions.
• Demonstrates ability to function in a fluid, dynamic changing environment.
• Ability to speak Spanish is preferred.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing or Associate Degree in Nursing.
• Appropriate certification in Case Management preferred. Must be licensed as an RN in the state of Michigan.
• Must have experience with children & families in individual and group sessions.
• Minimum of three years’ experience within the past five years in adult medicine in primary care/ambulatory care, home health agency, skilled nursing facility or hospital medical-surgical setting, or an equivalent combination of education, and experience to perform the duties and responsibilities of the job.

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands for use of personal computer as well as other office equipment.
• The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit and talk and use hearing to listen. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms, stoop, and kneel. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus.

Family Health Center has the right to modify the duties and functions of the job description based on the needs of the organization.