Hospice Nurse Field Case Manager Bronx

Hours
: 8.30am-5pm At least 1 weekend a month

Location
:
Bronx

Setting
:
Clinic

Provides oversight of the clinic, Administrative and leadership

• Demonstrates the ability to perform clinical and Administrative tasks
• Assures effective patient flow within the Health Center, telephone as well as walk-ins
• Assists providers in procedures, phone calls, referrals, problem solving.
• Provides nursing care and health education to patients.
• Oversees maintenance of clinical inventory and forms.
• Assists the providers with diagnostic procedures and treatment regimens when in need.
• Assesses reports, customer surveys, evaluations and other data to identify and plan the process, technology, personnel and facility needs to deliver care in a designated patient care area.
• Communicates care area purpose and goals to the care team.
• Interviews, hires, terminate, disciplines, and evaluates patient care staff.
• Monitors selection and use of health center supplies, technology and equipment.
• Collaboratively creates an interdisciplinary health center
  -based QI program effective in identifying means to improve patient care or teams and services and participates in the QI process.
• Achieves successful compliance with regulatory agency standards.
• Assures staff understanding of, and compliance with, infection control mandates.
• Assures that all health center staff are informed of medical center's developments and participates with the patient care area planning and problem solving.
• Conducts/facilitates leadership and nursing meetings, demonstrates ability to achieve meeting outcomes.
• Assures that the ability of assigned patient care provider is congruent with patient/family health care needs.
• Assures staff development by providing learning opportunities within and outside the organization.
• Participates in the planning and evaluation of educational programs to meet health center needs and to promote staff development.
• Develops, implements, and evaluates the health center
  -based orientation program for new employees.
• Schedules and assigns nursing staff along team lines.
• Functions as resource and support to other IFH & Charge Nurses and Nurse Managers on nursing issues as needed.
• Modifies approaches based on patient age-specific needs and responses to treatment.
• Provides care for patients based on age-specific needs.
• Uses communication techniques, which are age appropriate.
• Submits payroll when due, Stromberg and or Excel spread sheet
• Is a super user of Epic-Care and able to provide basic support to center
• Oversees the maintenance of schedules and appropriate staffing of nursing personnel.
• Develops and implements procedures, which ensure quality services.
• Participates in defining, maintaining and interpreting standards of nursing practice in the Family Practice area.
• Participates in determining conditions, resources and policies essential to delivery of nursing care services in Family Practice.
• Participates in departmental and interdisciplinary committees, which influence or determine policies affecting nursing practice.
• Attends practice management meetings on weekly basis and Nurse Manager Meetings on a monthly basis, and as called.
• Attends regular meetings with Practice Administrator and Medical Director to faster collaboration in practice management.
• Assists the Medical Director in the maintenance of a Quality Improvement Program for their area.
• Attends regularly scheduled meetings for staff and health care team when assigned
• feedback, and evaluation of role performance and assumes responsibility for meeting those needs.
• Mentors and develops staff.
• Performs any other duties as may be assigned

RN, BSN 3 years clinical setting, Supervisory exp