RN Case Manager | Lake Area

The RN Case Manager is responsible for the planning and management of nursing care of an assigned caseload of patients in collaboration with an interdisciplinary healthcare team. S/he works with patients located in home care, long term care, and assisted living facilities in an assigned region. Employees need to flex their work locations between various regional locations as needed by team.

• Work Locations: Columbia County region;
  Home Care, Long Term Care and Assisted Living Facilities
• Compensation: $68,000 - $74,000 base salary plus paid driving mileage; full benefits package including 23 days PTO annual
• Days/
  
  Hours:
  
  Monday
  -Friday 8:00-5:00pm; usually one weekend a month

The RN Case Manager is responsible for ongoing assessment of patient/caregiver needs, symptom management, teaching of appropriate care related to disease process, and participating as a member of the interdisciplinary group (IDG) in providing end-of-life care/support for patients, caregivers and the community.

• Serve diverse area, providing hospice and palliative nursing care management. Flexibility to provide community education, provider education, advanced care planning, admissions and oversite of patients in 3A area. Flexibility to work within any region of Community Hospice and Palliative care as needed.
• Provides information about Community Hospice services and philosophy to patients, caregivers, physicians, LTC administrators and directors of nursing, and the community.
• Ability to implement Medicare Local Coverage Determination to assess patients for Hospice eligibility.
• Responsible for education and mentoring of new staff members.
• Builds, develops and maintains relationships with referring physicians, area social workers, discharge planners and community agency staff in order to network and facilitate admission and placement of patients.
• Educates medical community on what are hospice appropriate referrals
• Educates medical community on the patient/family benefits of early referrals
• Cultivates, develops and enhances existing relationships with physicians, hospital, nursing homes and assisted living facilities
• Assists in providing in-service programs or public relations activities.
• Participates in hospital committees, speaks at hospital end-of-life in services, coordinates staff education with Hospice Representatives and actively explores new opportunities for growth of patient referrals and admissions
• Available to provide community education as requested. Collaboration and coordination of care with community providers related to hospice and palliative care services.
• All employees assigned this job title must be willing and able to flex their work location within and between any Community Hospice & Palliative Care locations, including home health, ALF and LTC locations.

• Active Registered Nurse license, State of Florida.
• CPR certification

Any combination of education and experience that would provide required skills
and knowledge for successful performance would be qualifying. Typical qualifications would be equivalent to:

• Possession of a degree from an accredited school of nursing program, 2 (two) year Associate Degree, or a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing
• One year RN experience; with one year of hospital medical-surgical/oncology experience preferred, OR
• Five years Licensed Practical Nurse experience within the past fiveyears, with one (1) year hospital medical–surgical/oncology experience preferred.
• Knowledge of appropriate educational principles and methods as applied to hospice nursing.
• Working long and occasionally irregular hours.