Job Description

Job Description

Description
RN Care Manager Full Time Days Up to $5,000 Bonus - AdventHealth Carrollwood

Location Address: 7171 North Dale Mabry Highway Tampa, Florida 33614

Top Reasons to Work At AdventHealth Carrollwood

* Up to $5,000 Sign-On Bonus for qualified candidates
* Family-like culture
* Teamwork driven both inter Dept and multidisciplinary
* Positive working climate to support a well-balanced work life balance

Work Hours/Shift:

Full Time Days

You Will Be Responsible For:

* Completes Initial Evaluation for transition of care needs on all identified patients within one calendar day of admission and documents according to policies and procedures. Interviews patient and involved care givers (as permitted by the patient) as well as a review of the current and past inpatient and outpatient medical record in the Initial Evaluation.
* Reviews necessary patient information including labs, medications (Pre and post hospital), History and Physical, Therapy notes, ED notes, test results and progress notes.
* Incorporates the patient/family care goals and preferences as much as possible into the transition of care planning and communicates these goals and preferences to the multidisciplinary team.
* Incorporate clinical, social and financial factors into the transition of care plan.
* Meets with patient/families to discuss realistic and appropriate discharge options and providers of post-hospital care.
* Incorporates social determinants of health into transitions of care planning and applies risk mitigation interventions to meet the individual needs of each patient
* Identifies and collaborates with the interdisciplinary team and hospital operations to resolve potential barriers to transition of care plan achievement.
* Collaborates with the multidisciplinary healthcare team daily in multidisciplinary rounds to efficiently communicate and facilitate high quality patient progression of care and transitions plans.
* Evaluates the potential for readmissions throughout the patient stay through the monitoring of each patients readmission risk scores and coordinating readmission mitigation interventions.
* Consults Social Work for specialty services related to psychosocial needs, decision making needs for patients who lack capacity, patient/family adjustment needs and psychosocially complex cases.
* Develops discharge plan with appropriate contingency plans throughout the hospital stay to enable adaptation to evolving patient care needs and ensure timely care coordination.
* Escalates issues barriers to appropriate level of Care Management leadership
* Assists with End of Life conversation, Living Wills, Advance Directives, Power of Attorney, Community DNR.
* Facilitates patient care conferences with multidisciplinary team as needed.
* Establishes and documents, based on the predicted DRG and multidisciplinary team members input, Anticipated Date of Transition (ADOT) and destination and updates, as needed.
* Actively participates in daily Multidisciplinary Rounds to review progression of care and discharge plan for all assigned patients
* Proactively identifies patients who no longer meet medical necessity and escalates potential denials, documents avoidable days, and facilitates progression of care.
* Collaborates with Utilization Management staff for collaboration on patient status changes and medical necessity discussions.
* Ensures all patients on assigned unit(s) are moved timely and effectively to appropriate levels of care
* Ensures reassessment of discharge needs provided anytime a patients condition changes and/or the circumstances impacting the provision of post-hospital care changes.
* Ensures patient notifications are provided and documented in a timely manner for compliance: Important Medicare Letters (IML), Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice (MOON), Patient Choice, and Beneficiary Notice Letter (BNL).
* Communicate with patient/family the possible need to pay for services out of pocket.
* Ensures primary care physician identification and scheduling of follow-up PCP and specialist appointments for post-hospital follow up care.
* Ensures discharge disposition accuracy and consistency in the EMR on all discharge patients.
* Serves as a content expert regarding payor information and educates interdisciplinary team and patients/caregivers regarding payor requirements/barriers.
* Maintains clinical competency and current knowledge of community resources, post-acute care providers and payor requirements to perform job responsibilities.
* Participates in department and hospital Performance Improvement activities.
* Provides necessary patient care coverage and assistance with other duties as assigned when needed.
* Promotes individual professional growth and development by meeting requirements for mandatory/continuing education, skills competency, supports department-based goals which contribute to the success of the organization.
* Participates in facility and department regulatory and certification preparations.
* The RN Care Manager serves as a preceptor to novice Care Managers

Qualifications
What You Will Need:

* ADN, RN
* Two (2) years of hospital nursing experience
* State specific RN license

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE PREFERRED:

* BSN
* Health-related Masters degree or MSN
* Prior Care Management/Utilization Management experience
* ACM/CCM Certification

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED:

* Computer proficiency with Outlook e-mail and electronic medical records
* Flexible in a complex and changing healthcare environment

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS PREFERRED:

* Knowledge of community resources and post-acute care programs across the continuum
* Knowledge of clinical and social factors that affect the patients functional status at discharge
* Knowledge of CMS Conditions of Participation for Discharge Planning

Job Summary:

The RN Care Manager in collaboration with the patient/family, social workers, nurses, physicians and the interdisciplinary team, ensures patient-centered care coordination and progression through the continuum of care

This facility is an equal opportunity employer and complies with federal, state and local anti-discrimination laws, regulations and ordinances.