Field RN, Care Manager, Hospice, Portland, Part Time, 5pm to 8am

$87,922 - $131,768/Yr

Adventist Health - Portland, OR

Part-time - Entry Level

Portland, OR

Ambulatory Health Care Services

About the position

The Field RN, Care Manager position at Adventist Health is a part-time role focused on providing excellent patient care through collaboration and management of care plans. The RN will act as a liaison among patients, families, healthcare teams, and benefactors to optimize health outcomes, particularly for complex cases. This role requires a commitment to patient safety and adherence to organizational vaccination policies.

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent patient care by assisting in the collaboration, development, implementation, revision, and reporting of the case management program.
• Act as a liaison between the patient, family, nurse, physicians, multidisciplinary team, and patient's healthcare benefactor to optimize outcomes.
• Lead the coordination of patient care with other disciplines within the care team, monitoring the appropriateness and timeliness of care.
• Ensure the interdisciplinary care plan is consistent with the patient's clinical course, continuing care needs, and covered services.
• Discuss with physicians the appropriateness of resource utilization, consultations, treatment plans, estimated length of stay, and discharge plans.
• Focus on complex patients, frequent emergency department utilizers, chronic pain and substance abuse patients, and homeless patients.
• Collaborate with acute care case managers to ensure appropriateness of ongoing care.
• Coordinate the transfer of patients to tertiary centers, including the transfer of patient information required for continuity of ongoing treatment and services.
• Provide oversight and collect data required for regulatory/accreditation compliance.
• Manage frequent emergency department visitors by conducting a focus study review of previous and current admissions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN) preferred.
• One year of professional nursing experience required.
• Experience in a care management role preferred.
• Registered Nurse (RN) licensure in the state of practice required.
• Case management certification preferred.
• Basic Life Support (BLS OR HS-BLS OR RQI BLS) certification required.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in care plans.

Benefits

• $5,000 incentive available for the position.