RN Case Manager Hospice
US-IA-Waterloo
careers
Req #: 172648
Type: Full Time Benefits
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Overview: $10,000 Sign On Bonus Full Time; 1st Shift; Days with on call rotation Responsibilities: Patient Care/Care Coordination * Ensures compassionate, empathetic quality and safe delivery of services to patients according to care plan. * Consistently utilizes a patient-centered approach considering physical, psych/social, spiritual, educational, safety and related criteria appropriate to the age of the patients served in hospice. * Integrates and coordinates the care of the at-risk population across the healthcare continuum making assessments, planning interventions working closely with providers and overall patient care team. * Facilitates the interdisciplinary plan of care to meet multiple service needs as well as promote continuity through elimination of fragmentation of care/service. * Delivers quality care consistent with Hospice Conditions of Participation, qualifying hospice criteria, payer coverage criteria, and providing visits/treatments consistent with the plan of care to honor patient/ family values/ wishes * Makes visits to the homes of patients and assumes responsibility for an ongoing interdisciplinary assessment of the patient. * Performs initial, comprehensive, and recertification assessments on all patients in accordance with agency policies and procedures. * Performs nursing assessment at each visit in accordance with agency policies and procedures.Provides education to patients and family members to understand the following as well as any additional education needs identified by the assessing clinician and/or physicians: * Medications purpose, use, side effects, potential adverse effects * Proper use, safety hazards, and infection control issues related to the use and maintenance of any equipment provided * Patient plan of care * Emergency preparedness 70% * Disease progression and management of symptoms Provides the services that are ordered by the physician as indicated in the plan of care. Qualifications: Education: * Graduate of State Board approved program for Registered Nurses Experience: * One year nursing experience caring for similar patient population as to be assigned. License(s)/Certification(s): * Valid license as an RN in state(s) where providing care * Valid licensed driver with automobile insurance in accordance with state(s)
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