RN Care Manager Weekends Lenexa City Center

About the role

Joining AdventHealth is about extending the healing ministry of Christ. You will be part of a community that values the whole person and serves to uplift others in body, mind, and spirit.

Responsibilities

• Participates in multi-disciplinary rounds to review patient status, progression, and level of care, and discharge plans for all assigned patients.
• Educates patients and families regarding emotional, social, and financial impacts of illness and mobilizes family/community resources to meet identified needs.
• Affirms patient and family empowerment in making health care decisions and accessing needed services.
• Assesses readmitted patients for the patient’s and family’s perceived reasons for the readmission.
• Organizes and facilitates patient and family care conferences with the multidisciplinary team.
• Documents discharge planning evaluation, ongoing assessment, discharge plans, MDRs, barriers to progression of care, avoidable days, and patient and family needs according to standard work.
• Communicates with payors to ensure patient’s needs for authorization for post-acute care as needed.
• Assesses patients’ and families’ wholistically for discharge planning needs in the inpatient, observation, and emergency departments, including prior functioning, support systems, financial, and psychosocial factors.
• Develops discharge plans with appropriate contingency plans throughout the hospital stay to ensure timely care coordination and progression of care, making arrangements for post-acute care services and facilities as well as community care for social needs.
• Leverages technology and follows standard work and best practices to communicate with post-acute care services and facilities to ensure patient care information is communicated for continuity of care, medical records are complete, and discharge reconciliation is accurate.
• Manages multiple tasks and prioritizes levels of importance.
• Communicates effectively with people of all social, economic, and cultural backgrounds; be flexible, open-minded, and adaptable to change.
• Works collaboratively within a team to achieve common goals.

Requirements

• Associates of Nursing
• Bachelor's of Nursing (Preferred)
• Registered Nurse (RN) (Required)

Skills and Abilities

• Leadership skills
• Process and outcome data analysis skills
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Effective organizational skills
• Computer proficiency with Outlook e-mail and electronic medical records
• Flexibility in a complex and changing healthcare environment
• Knowledge of community resources and post-acute care programs across the continuum
• Knowledge of clinical and social factors that affect the patient's functional status at discharge
• Knowledge of CMS Conditions of Participation for Discharge Planning
• Conflict management and resolution skills
• Teamwork principles

Education

• Nursing degree (Required)
• Bachelor's degree in Nursing (Preferred)

Work Experience

• 2+ years of medical/hospital nursing experience (Required)
• Prior care management/utilization management experience (Preferred)

Additional Information

None

Physical Requirements

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Pay Range

$33.70 - $62.69