RN Care Manager

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Join our team at Cleveland Clinic Indian RiverHospital and experience world-class healthcare at its best. Cleveland Clinic Indian River has been recognized as one of the top regional hospitals in South Florida. Indian River Hospital is in sunny Florida’s Treasure Coast where it is committed to providingoptimal family-centric and community-focused care. At Indian River Hospital, you will be part of a collaborative, compassionate, and innovative team of caregivers. You will work withstate-of-the-art technology and will build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.      

Indian River Hospital is looking to add an RN Care Manager to its compassionate nursing team.As an RN Care Manager, you will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary care team staff across the continuum of care forhigh-risk patients. You will provide coordination of care and disease management longitudinally to patients with chronic condition(s) or episodic care of a surgical population, focusing your efforts on patient outreach, achievingoptimal outcomes, promotingwellness and decreasing preventable Emergency Department visits and readmissions. This opportunity will not only provide you with plenty of hands-onlearning but can also lead you to becoming certified in Care Management. 

A caregiver in this position worksdays from 8:00AM – 4:30PM. 

A caregiver who excels in this role will:  

• Identify which patients in the specialty care practice have ongoing carecoordination needs for their specialty condition. 

• Outline the nature and duration of involvement needed by the specialty careteam and specialty care coordinator andidentify the primary care team involved. 

• Utilize assessment skills and risk assessment tools toidentify patients with actual or potential care needs that would require care coordination. 

• Conduct targeted outreach to a defined panel ofhigh-risk patients (chronic illness, lack of social support, readmissions, ED visits, surgical episodes, etc.) to ensuretimely and efficient care delivery across the continuum of care. 

• Utilize technological tools (registries, patient lists, care teamtab, etc.) to manage populations. 

• Conduct comprehensive clinical assessments that include disease-specific, age-specific, medical, behavioral pharmacy, social andend-of-life needs of each patient. 

• Inform the patient,family and healthcare teamregarding coordination of their care 

• Develop goals and plan interventions to maximize patient outcomes. 

• Monitor patient compliance withplan of care. 

• Perform reassessmentsregarding patient progress toward goals and update plan of care asappropriate. 

• Ensure care gaps are closed around specialty disease/chronic disease/surgical episodes. 

• Serve as primary patient contact for team related to condition/surgical episode andfacilitate access to services. 

• Coordinate members of the patient care team. 

• Serve as the liaison between patients, families,physicians and clinical staff by advocating forpatient and families. 

• Respond to andfacilitate resolution of patient and family questions and concerns. 

• Assist in managing transitions of care across caresetting. 

• Identify barriers to receiving care andfacilitate solutions. 

• Define andensure compliance with disease-specific care paths for specialty care or chronic disease. 

• Work with the patient and family to assess current knowledge, healthliteracy and readiness to change. 

• Coach and educatepatient and family on self-management support andmanaging a specialty or surgical condition. 

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:  

• Graduate from an accredited school of professional Nursing (Diploma,ADN or BSN program) 

• Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) 

• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS) certification 

• Three to five years of nursing experience 

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include: 

• Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing (BSN) 

• Specialty certification 

Physical Requirements:

• Requires full range of motion, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.
• Requires corrected hearing and vision to normal range.
• May requires some exposure to communicable diseases or bodily fluids.
• Light Work - Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects. Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required for procedures.

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