Atrium Health Navicent is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) Case Management for a nursing job in Macon, Georgia.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: Case Management
• Discipline: RN
• Start Date: ASAP
• Duration: Ongoing
• Employment Type: Staff

Department:

39109 NH Pine Pointe Hospice - Hospice

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

Monday through Friday 8:30-5:00. Call required one morning per week and 3 holidays per year.

Pay Range

$34.90 - $52.35

• The Hospice Case Manager coordinates care for a defined patient population including adolescent, adult, and geriatric terminally ill patients. This includes utilization management, transitional care planning, psychosocial and functional status assessment, patient advocacy, education for the patient/family, and monitoring value indicators to demonstrate outcomes resulting from the service provided. This individual collaborates with other case managers, other health care disciplines, patient financial services, and patient reimbursement plans to provide a comprehensive assessment of a given patient’s plan of care, goal/outcome attainment, and continued care needs.

  Major Responsibilities:

  1. Professional Performance Standards

  • Performs preadmit visits, admission visits, scheduled and non-scheduled routine home visits, pronouncement visits, supervises home health aides and manages patient plan of care.
  • Responds to all calls, medical and emotional crises and/or patient deaths. Makes home visits to provide direct care as appropriate. Utilizes other Case Managers, Social Workers, Physicians, and Administrator for assistance as needed. Performs thorough and accurate assessments of patient physical status. Gathers relevant data on coping strategies, support system and learning needs of patient and family. Based on assessment, identifies problems that may be resolved, diminished, or prevented through nursing and/or interdisciplinary intervention.
  • Creates individualized care plans based on identified problems and documents in a manner that facilitates the determination and measurement of expected outcomes.
  • Derived from identified problems
  • Mutually formulated with patient and family and other members of the interdisciplinary team
  • Realistic in relation to patient and family current and potential capabilities and choices
  • Attainable in relation to patient prognosis and resources available to patient and family
  • Documents interventions on the nursing plan of care to attain identified goals. Interventions are consistent with standards of hospice nursing practice.
  • Evaluates the effectiveness of interventions in relation to identified goals.
  • Documents patient and family response to interventions and communicates to members of the interdisciplinary team.
  • Documents and communicates to all other members of the interdisciplinary team revisions in problems, goals and interventions in the plan of care.
  • Plans and documents care to carry out planned interventions. Continues to provide planned care until a reason to discontinue is documented.
  • Maintains up-to-date patient records so that problems, plans, actions and goals are accurately and clearly stated and changes are reflected as they occur.
  • Accepts responsibility for coordinating physical care of patient by teaching primary caregivers, volunteers and employed caregivers how to perform tasks essential to patient care.
  • Shares with primary caregivers, employed caregivers and volunteers information on disease process, symptom management and progression of disease process, symptom management and progression of disease process as appropriate.
  • Assesses safety status of medical equipment provided by Heyman Hospice Care and immediately reports any problems to the vendor. Provides appropriate support at the time of death.

  2. Interdisciplinary Team Collaboration Standards

  • Informs Social Worker of unusual or potentially problematic patient/family issues.
  • Communicates with attending physician concerning changes in patient symptoms and disease progression needing interventions
  • requiring orders
  • Utilizes input from primary nurse reports regarding patient plan of care.

  3. Quality Standards

  • Participates in performance/quality monitoring activities as assigned.
  • Participates in Process Improvement activities as assigned.
  • Adheres to principles of infection control in performing direct patient care.
  • Demonstrates understanding of medications most commonly used in palliative care and acceptable dosage titration principles.
  • Provides age-appropriate care, as evidenced by performance with applicable standards.
  • Demonstrates competency in technical skills related to specialty-based populations.
  • Demonstrates competency in critical thinking skills related to specialty-based populations as evidenced by:
  • Completes Discipline-Specific tests with passing grades
  • Completes applicable education day tests with passing grades
  • Observed in the practice of patient care
  • Demonstrates familiarity with and adherence to policies of the program and rules and regulations of State, Federal and Private
  • Agencies which aid in determining policies.

  4. Customer Satisfaction Standards

  • Consistently addresses the individual needs of each patient and family.
  • Assists and collaborates with co-workers as part of the team.
  • Represents Floyd and Heyman Hospice Care through participation in community activities.
  • Appropriately reports customer complaints and incidents.

  5. Operational Effectiveness Standards

  • Works on in-office assignments when not providing/documenting patient care.
  • Uses supplies and equipment in a cost-efficient manner as needed for patients.
  • Performs other related duties as assigned.
  • Demonstrates efficiency in scheduling patients (when able) to minimize travel time and mileage.

  Licensure, Registration, and/or Certification Required:

  • Current registration to practice as a Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse in the State of Georgia
  • Current valid Georgia driver’s license and ability to drive own car

  Education Required:

  • Graduate from an Accredited School of Registered Professional Nurses or
  • Graduate of Licensed Practical Nurse Accredited Program

  Experience Required:

  • At least two years of varied work experience as a professional nurse, coping with patient/family emotional stress and tolerance of individual lifestyles

  Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

  Full range of body motion including handling and lifting patients, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination. Standing and walking for extensive periods of time. Occasionally lifts and carries weight up to 50 pounds. Ability to distinguish letters, numbers and symbols with vision
  and hearing within normal range to respond to Code alerts and equipment alarms. Work-related stress due to volume and time constraints with irregular working hours.

  This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.

Our Commitment to You:

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including:

Compensation

• Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
• Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
• Incentive pay for select positions
• Opportunity for annual increases based on performance

Benefits and more

• Paid Time Off programs
• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
• Educational Assistance Program

About Advocate Health 

Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.

Hospice Nurse

Atrium Health Navicent Job ID #R​1​7​8​7​4​0​-​O​T​H​L​O​C​-​L​C​0​0​0​1​6​3​2. Posted job title: Hospice Case Manager

About Atrium Health Navicent

Headquartered 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 its 125-year history in the community, Atrium Health Navicent has remained dedicated to enhancing health and wellness for individuals throughout the region through nationally recognized quality care, community health initiatives and collaborative partnerships. It is also one of the leading teaching hospitals in the region, helping to ensure viability for rural health care for the next generation. 

Atrium Health Floyd

Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center is a 304-bed, full-service hospital located in Rome, Georgia. Serving as the main campus for Atrium Health Floyd, this hospital provides a certified Chest Pain Center, a designated Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence and a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence. Atrium Health Floyd also is home to a state-designated Level II Trauma Center and a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and has specialty centers for pediatrics, and wound care and hyperbaric therapy.

Benefits

• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• Life insurance
• 401k retirement plan
• Health savings account