Case Manager; Pd) Cm

Description

4CM02

PVH employment application required. All job offers contingent upon background check and completion of pre-employment physical.

This is an "as needed" position utilized to cover gaps in coverage including vacations, leaves of absence, and other instances of unfilled shifts.

Per diem employees are required to work a minimum of 3 shifts, within a 3-month period.

1. Collaborates with members of the health care team.

2. Demonstrates the ability to organize and carry out duties without direct supervision.

3. Demonstrates understanding of care management philosophy and principles through

application of problem-solving techniques and critical thinking skills to facilitate positive outcomes.

4. Oversees the communication of the plan of care to patient/family, physicians and other members of the healthcare team.

5. Successfully maintains the "big-picture" view of a case and ensures that actions take place to ensure this view is consistent.

6. Possess the ability to stay focused on the desired outcomes, without getting sidetracked by tasks or activities that are not contributing to keeping/getting a patient/project on track.

7. Exhibits excellent interpersonal communication skills.

8. Facilitates daily multidisciplinary team care conferences/huddles.

9. Appropriately communicates necessary information to the Director of Inpatient/ED and/or the Chief Nursing Officer.

10. Constructively participates in PVH committees.

11. Is a resource to staff and physicians regarding appropriateness of admission and continued stay levels of care (including related documentation requirements).

12. Ensures assessments are holistic in nature and consistently address the patient’s physical and psychosocial health, environment, support systems, educational needs, and financial resources.

13. Accurately evaluates the progress of the patient/family on a daily basis and with the healthcare team, modifies plans in order to achieve established goals.

14. Makes arrangements to ensure all services and supplies required by the patient post discharge

will be available.

15. Recognizes and is able to comfortably address conflict that is an obstacle to a patient receiving coordinated care.

16. Ensures that patients are discharged neither sooner nor later than is clinically appropriate.

17. Is a resource to staff and physicians regarding quality-of-care concerns and
criteria/guidelines/protocols utilized in care planning and resource utilization.

18. Coordinates interdisciplinary care conferences for complex cases when goals of the health care team members and the patient/family are not mutually acceptable.

19. Succeeds as a change agent by recognizing and effectively intervening to address unresolved problems that interfere with achieving pre-established patient care goals.

20. Expedites the scheduling of tests and procedures as required to move patients through the system in a fiscally responsible way.

21. Demonstrates understanding of payer prior approval requirements, the various health care delivery systems and payer plan contracts.

22. Ensures/oversees that the patient/family understands the discharge plan and that the educational needs regarding the discharge plan have been met.

23. Performs accurate, age-appropriate and timely assessments within the next business day of the patient entering the facility.

24. Demonstrates accountability for job responsibilities and actions taken by being proactive and completing assignments thoroughly and in a timely manner.

25. Maintains knowledge of and participates in department and hospital wide performance improvement activities.

26. Utilizes available time to participate in QI, maintain statistical records, complete special projects.

27. Uses work time in a professional and…