RN - Case Mgmt.-Lodi-CA-14534-Pay Negotiable

Job Summary

Provides excellent patient care by assisting in the collaboration, development, implementation, revision and reporting of the case management program. Acts as a liaison between the patient, family, nurse, physicians, multidisciplinary team and patient's healthcare benefactor to optimize outcomes. Serves as a consultant to the healthcare team on specific patient items.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads the coordination of patient care with other disciplines within the care team, monitoring the appropriateness and timeliness of care.
• Ensures the interdisciplinary care plan is consistent with the patient's clinical course, continuing care needs and covered services by monitoring diagnostic testing, treatments and procedures, and other aspects of patient care as appropriate for acute care.
• Discusses with physicians the appropriateness of resource utilization, consultations, treatment plan, estimated length of stay, and discharge plan.
• Focuses on complex patients, frequent emergency department utilizers, chronic pain patients, substance abuse patients and homeless patients.
• Collaborates with acute care case managers to ensure appropriateness on ongoing care.
• Captures and communicates patient information to ensure continuity of ongoing treatment and services.
• Coordinates the transfer of patients to tertiary centers, including the transfer of patient information required for continuity of ongoing treatment and services.