Care Management Nurse (NY License Required) - REMOTE

About the opportunity

A healthcare organization seeking a licensed LVN, LPN or RN to join their growing staff as a new Care Management Nurse. This role will be providing telephonic Care Management for patients throughout the health system under the direction of a patient’s provider.

Position Responsibilities

• Cooperatively develop and integrate patient centered provider care plan and goals with the client/family and other providers
• Work collaboratively with team members to provide outreach and engagement with the patient
• Work closely with in-office providers/staff members to:
• Provide patient education to assist with self-management
• Identify gaps or barriers in treatment plans
• Coordinate care enrolled patients including scheduling appointments
• Coordinate referrals
• Coordinate community resources as needed (ie: home health, DME etc)
• Educate members on disease processes
• Encourage members to make healthy lifestyle changes
• Actively maintain assigned caseload of patients
• Make outbound calls to assess members current health status
• Receive and respond to telephone calls from patients. Collecting health data and providing medical guidance under the direction of the patients provider
• Document calls according to established guidelines
• Connects patient’s care team together with updated information as received
• Participation in education and in-service programs
• Performs on-call for region that you are assigned
• Additional duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• Unrestricted and current license to practice as LVN/LPN/RN with a New York State license.
• 3 years of experience within Care Management setting or Case Coordinator either in the homecare, inpatient, physician practice or in-home case management setting
• Strong working knowledge of chronic disease states including chronic kidney disease, diabetes mellitus, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and congestive heart failure and basic medical management of these states
• Must be highly motivated, result-oriented with strong skills in presenting, communicating, organizing and time management skills
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills
• Excellent customer service skills demonstrated by positive feedback from patients/team
• Ability to identify problems and recommend solutions
• Demonstrates progressive proficiency with the utilization of available computer technology, including typing skills
• Demonstrates; leadership, communication, interpersonal and problem-solving skills
• Experience working with Electronic Health Record (EHR)
• Ability to sit and work at a computer for extended periods of time
• 60 words per minute typing

Preferred Qualifications

• Bilingual in Spanish