RN CLINICAL CASE MANAGER
Company: Southern Illinois Healthcare
Location: Wolf Lake
Posted on: January 16, 2022
Job Description:
Your Career. Our Company. Together, We Grow. At Southern
Illinois Healthcare (SIH), we realize that in order to provide our
surrounding communities with excellent care, we must begin by
providing our employees with that same care and appreciation. We
offer rich opportunities to develop and grow professionally, an
environment of excellence in patient care, and the awareness that
everything we accomplish is a direct outgrowth of the superb
efforts and dedication of our employees. As a non-profit system of
almost 4000 employees, we have won national acclaim for our cancer,
cardiac, stroke, bariatric, breast imaging, and rehabilitation
services. Responsible for the day to day activities of case
management. Performs concurrent patient assessment related to
appropriateness of the level of care, diagnosis, procedures
performed, discharge needs, and intervenes to expedite the
patient-----TMs plan of care. Responsibilities
- Performs concurrent patient assessment related to
appropriateness of the level of care, diagnosis, procedures
performed, and intervenes to expedite the patient-----TMs plan of
care.
- Maintains competency in InterQual criteria.
- Collaborate with social work team to address social issues that
affect a safe, effective discharge plan.
- Provides and documents discharge planning services in a
professional, collaborative and timely manner to optimize meeting
patients-----TM posthospital discharge care needs.
- Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to assess,
monitor, implement and evaluate patient care needs during the
hospital stay in order to smoothly transition the patient to the
next level of care.
- Utilizes evidence-based practice standards to guide the
evaluation of care, length of stay, medical necessity of services,
and appropriate use of organizational and patient centered
resources.
- Develops and maintains collaborative relationships with
organizations in the community that facilitate provision of
appropriate care during the hospital stay and facilitate efficient
and effective planning for continued care for the patient.
- Collaborates with necessary staff and post-discharge care
providers to assure a safe and effective discharge plan.
- Facilitates care conferences with patient and/or family support
structure and healthcare team to foster decision making that
promotes patient advocacy.
- Supports Service Excellence initiatives contributing to the
organization becoming a top performer in quality care, patient
safety and patient satisfaction strategies.
- Understands and applies techniques to support the provision of
population based appropriate care utilizing Joint Commission
standards, CMS Core Measure requirements, and other best
practices.
- Acts as an expert resource to the interdisciplinary healthcare
team, physicians and other leaders: Participates in
interdisciplinary team meetings in a collaborative manner resulting
in achievement of best patient outcomes.
- Participates actively in departmental and hospital wide teams,
committees, or other improvement.
- LEAD: Assists with orientation for all new case managers,
serves as mentor for new RN case managers after orientation.
- LEAD: Serves as team resource.
- LEAD: Encourage growth and collaboration throughout case
management department.
- LEAD: Provide ongoing education and follow up to case
management team.
- LEAD: Maintain documentation of any orientation/trainings
provided and provides this to manager.
- LEAD: collaborates with manager for annual skill competency of
case management team.
- LEAD: Assists manager with data collection, analysis and
distribution as needed. Qualifications
Keywords: Southern Illinois Healthcare, Evansville , RN CLINICAL CASE MANAGER, Executive , Wolf Lake, Indiana
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