RN-Care Manager

Company: SSM Health
Location: Madison
Posted on: October 13, 2021

Job Description:

This is a part time position working 48 hours per pay period on the day shift.

At SSM Health, we know the healing power of presence begins with compassionate employees like you. 

You will make a difference in our patients lives on a daily basis. 

 

Are you passionate about delivering excellence in customer service? Do you enjoy a team environment? You will interact with staff, visitors and patients to ensure a best in class experience at the hospital.

 

At SSM Health, you can expect a work environment where: 

- Employees feel valued, respected and free to express themselves; 

- Each employee finds meaning in work, leveraging skills and talents toward a greater purpose; 

- Teamwork and collaboration is encouraged, while management is supportive. 

 

Utilizes skilled intervention, clinical best practice knowledge and collaboration with the patient, physician and multidisciplinary treatment team to pace care, achieve quality outcomes and negotiate appropriate reimbursement. Ensures the timely and seamless clinical transition of patients through medically appropriate levels of care.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Reviews all patients identified for review to determine the medical necessity and appropriateness of enrollment in the care management program.
• Assesses all assigned patients and integrates family information from social work to collaboratively determine potential, actual and the next level of care needed.
• Holds, interprets, and integrates the patient’s story into the overall multidisciplinary plan of care.
• Coordinates and facilitates access to services and patient care progression using best practice interventions that will produce favorable patient outcomes.
• Collaborates with physicians, nursing, social work, and multiple disciplines, departments, payers, and agencies to eliminate barriers to efficient delivery of care in the appropriate setting.
• Actively participates in clinical performance improvement activities as assigned.
• Builds a network of positive working relationships that advocate for the patient.
• Documents clinical activity in the medical record and supports and coaches accurate clinical documentation by physicians and others.
• Pursues continuing education in area of expertise/leadership.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Graduate of accredited school of nursing

EXPERIENCE

• Two years' registered nurse experience

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

Keywords: SSM Health, Madison , RN-Care Manager, Other , Madison, Wisconsin

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