Description
The RN Hospital Care Manager I delivers comprehensive care management services to designated patients, leveraging clinical expertise for screenings, assessments, and evaluations.
This role involves developing and implementing patient-centred care plans with shared goals and tailored interventions.
The Care Manager collaborates seamlessly with patients, families/caregivers, healthcare providers, payers, community-based providers, and other stakeholders to ensure efficient, effective, and patient-focused care management.
This position spans various departments, including both Inpatient and Outpatient areas.
Essential Functions
- Assessment: Identifies patients using screening criteria and conducts comprehensive evaluations.
- Care Planning: Develops, adjusts, and coordinates care plans to address medical and social needs.
- Patient Support: Guides self-management using motivational interviewing and coaching.
- Education & Advocacy: Provides education to healthcare teams and patients, advocates for patient rights, and supports self-care.
- Collaboration: Works with multidisciplinary teams to ensure timely, high-quality care.
- Process Improvement: Leads initiatives to enhance care transitions and policy adherence.
- Advanced Care Planning: Provides Goals of Care education for informed decision-making.
- Data Analysis & Compliance: Tracks key metrics, analyses trends, and ensures regulatory compliance.
Minimum Qualifications
- Current Registered Nurse (RN) license in the state of practice.
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from an accredited institution (degree verification required).
- Demonstrated clinical nursing experience in an inpatient hospital setting, and familiarity with hospital patient-related terminology and processes.
- Demonstrated understanding of disease management including treatment, length of stay, identifying barriers to delivery of care and any variation.
Preferred Qualification
- Case Management Certification
- Demonstrated experience in case management, utilisation review, value-based care, and/or discharge planning.
- Basic computer skills, including proficiency in word processing and spreadsheet software.
Physical Requirements
- Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
- Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate supplies and equipment with precision and accuracy.
- Mental stamina and flexibility- ability to handle high stress situations, make quick decisions, and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
The hourly range for this position is $41.20 - $62.17.