Case Manager RN

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Job Description

• Interacts with co-workers visitors and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.
• Advocates for the patient and family throughout the entire episode of care.
• Functions as a resource to facilitate communication among the healthcare team and patient/family.
• Facilitates patient progression throughout the patients hospital stay.
• Reviews patient length of stay/barriers data to facilitate patients progression during Multidisciplinary Rounds and Escalation/Outlier meetings.
• Reviews patients status daily to identify issues requiring priority interventions or attention which may impact the established discharge plan.
• May facilitate daily patient Plan of Care Huddle Rounds functioning as the Patient Progression Leader or supports the identified Patient Progression Leader. Monitors patients progress intervening as necessary to ensure patient progresses efficiently.
• Proactively identifies and resolves barriers to patient care and/or progression to discharge.
• Escalates unresolved barriers to Department Leadership.

• Bachelors Degree of Nursing
• 3 years case management or discharge planning experience
• Demonstrates effective use of conflict resolution skills as necessary
• Utilizes interdisciplinary collaborative team approach to patient care planning and discharge coordination.
• Understands the impact of developmental stage on adjustment to illness/trauma.
• Demonstrates ability to identify adolescent behaviors concerning body image independence sexual identity interference with ability to establish identity tendency to deny or minimize severity of illness.
• Demonstrates understanding of end of life issues.
• Exhibits effective communication skills while working with neonate infant adolescent and geriatric patient.
• Demonstrates ability to recognize the signs of physical and/or emotional abuse or neglect to help identify victims.
• Demonstrates the ability to identify hearing and sight deficiencies in geriatric population.
• RN - Licensed Registered NursePA - State of Pennsylvania or
• RN - Licensed Registered NurseNJ - State of New Jersey

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Nationally ranked Jefferson which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65000 people strong dedicated to providing the highest-quality compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrows professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College Jefferson College of Nursing and the Kanbar College of Design Engineering and Commerce dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200 undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8300 students. Jefferson Health nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age race color religion creed sexual orientation gender gender identity marital status pregnancy national origin ancestry citizenship military status veteran status handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues including medical (including prescription) supplemental insurance dental vision life and AD&D insurance short- and long-term disability flexible spending accounts retirement plans tuition assistance as well as voluntary benefits which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues including those who work less than part-time(including per diemcolleagues adjunct faculty and Jeff Temps) have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

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