Description
Atrium Health Charlotte is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) Care Manager for a nursing job in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Job Description & Requirements- Specialty: Care Manager
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: ASAP
- Duration: Ongoing
- Employment Type: Staff
Overview
Job Summary
Responsible for coordinating with the medical team, Clinical Care Managers, and other disciplines associated with transition to facilitate optimal health outcomes and successful, seamless transitions along the healthcare continuum. The Coordinator uses critical thinking, interpersonal skills, communication, as well as assessment tools to determine continuing care service's needs, as well as community resource service needs. This position is a key member of the multi-disciplinary rounds team and works to coordinate such post-acute services and ensure that all needed services are arranged and in place prior to the transition. Responsible for educating patients and their families/caregivers about the services that are to be received.
Essential Functions
- Functions as a liaison for patient/family in navigating the continuum of care.
- Assesses, plans, coordinates, and evaluates services of patients with the goal of equipping and empowering individuals and their families to easily assess resources and adopt healthy lifestyles that will increase their ability to remain healthy at home or in the least restrictive environment.
- Works closely with hospitals, clinics, health care facilities, and agency clinical and administrative personnel to ensure patient care is seamless, efficient, effective and appropriate to the individual.
- Interacts daily with patients, medical professionals, and the community to achieve continuity of care, coordination of medical services, and to document plans of care as related to home health care and hospice services.
- Makes on-site consultative, educational visits in the hospital to evaluate the appropriateness of the patient's admission to continuing care services. Able to complete needs assessment considering psychosocial, physical, economic, and health literacy factors.
- Uses interpersonal skills and excellent communication skills to establish a rapport with the patient and forecast and prioritize his/her needs.
- Receives referrals and orders from physicians, hospital, and other agencies. Acts as a resource for clinical personnel.
- Completes accurate and appropriate documentation, logs, and/or patient forms and records to ensure compliance with regulations, agency policy, payer requirements, and standards of care.
Works requires walking, standing, sitting, lifting, reaching, bending, and stooping. Must lift a minimum of 35 pounds shoulder high. Must speak English in effective, comprehensible terms. Ability to communicate verbally and in writing. Must have intact sense of sight and hearing, finger dexterity, critical thinking, and ability to concentrate. Must be able to respond quickly to changes in assignments. Ability to travel between facilities and hospital units.
Education, Experience and Certifications
Atrium Health Charlotte Job ID #130735. Posted job title: Rn Care Manager
About Atrium Health CharlotteHeadquartered in Charlotte, NC, Atrium Health is now part of Advocate Health, the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, which was created from the combination with Advocate Aurora Health. In the Southeast Region, Atrium Health provides care under the Atrium Health name in Charlotte, NC, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist name in the Winston-Salem, NC, region, as well as Atrium Health Navicent and Atrium Health Floyd in Georgia and Alabama. Together, we are committed to providing equitable care for all. Annually, Advocate Health provides nearly $5 billion in community benefits.
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist's two main components are an integrated clinical system - anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem - that includes Brenner Children's Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.
Atrium Health Navicent
Atrium Health Navicent is the leading provider of healthcare in central and south Georgia and is committed to its mission of elevating health and well-being through compassionate care. Atrium Health Navicent is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the third-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Navicent provides high-quality, personalized care in 53 specialties at more than 50 facilities throughout the region. As part of the largest, integrated, nonprofit health system in the Southeast, it is also able to tap into some of the nation's leading medical experts and specialists with Atrium Health, allowing it to provide the best care close to home - including advanced innovations in virtual medicine and care. Throughout
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