RN Unit Case Manager - Weekender

RN Case Manager – Weekender - Day Shift

Saturday & Sunday (

Hours:

8a-8:30p plus one rotating Friday shift (4p-8p). Newark, DE

Christiana Care - Newark Hospital is currently recruiting an RN Acute Care Case Manager - Weekender with experience in Transitional Care or Discharge Planning in an Acute Care Hospital Setting.

This program requires working 3 out of 4 weekends in a four‑week schedule. The schedule includes a 12‑hour day shift on Saturdays and Sundays, along with one rotating Friday shift. An annual rotating holiday occurs every other year.

WIP Benefits: special rate of pay and full benefits, except for Paid Time Off (PTO).

The RN Case Manager will manage patient care, drive patient progression, and establish a discharge plan. The role functions as a member of the interdisciplinary team and creates, implements, and monitors treatment plans to ensure safe, timely, and effective transitions throughout the care continuum and discharge planning.

• RN Case Manager – manages patient care, drives patient progression, and establishes a discharge plan.
• Social Worker – resolves psycho‑social barriers and supports discharge needs.
• Utilization Management – reviews patient status for appropriateness and anticipated payer coverage.

• Identify patients who have post‑acute care, placement, and complex discharge planning needs based on a comprehensive assessment that includes physical and psycho‑social factors.
• Anticipate, initiate, and establish a discharge plan for patients with post‑acute care needs, collaborating with the physician, nurse, and other health‑care providers, the patient, their family or primary caregiver(s), third‑party payers, and employer following established clinical guidelines, standards, and pathways.
• Review the admission assessment and collaborate with the primary nurse and other health‑care providers to ensure a multidisciplinary care plan is in place to meet identified patient care needs and desired outcomes.
• Identify system issues that serve as barriers to care and participate in the development and implementation of strategies to remove barriers and facilitate patient progression.

Christiana Care is located in Delaware and is one of the country’s most dynamic healthcare organizations, centered on improving health outcomes, making high‑quality care more accessible, and lowering healthcare costs. Christiana Care includes an extensive network of primary care and outpatient services, home health care, urgent care centers, three hospitals (1,336 beds), a freestanding emergency department, a Level I trauma center, a Level III neonatal intensive care unit, a comprehensive stroke center and regional centers of excellence in heart and vascular care, cancer care, and women’s health.

It also includes the pioneering Gene Editing Institute.

• Active RN license in DE or a Compact State is required.
• BSN required.
• One year of experience as an RN Case Manager preferred.
• Experience in an inpatient hospital setting with a focus on acute care is required.
• BLS preferred.