Position Status:
Full time
Shift:
First Shift (Days - Less than 12 hours per shift) (United States of America)
Hours per week:
40
Job Information
Exemption Status: Non-Exempt
A Brief Overview
The Care Manager (Palliative Medicine) serves in an expanded nursing role to collaborate with patients and their health care team including the Palliative Medicine team, Primary Care Providers, specialists, and hospital staff and physicians to provide a model of care that ensures the delivery of quality, efficient and cost-effective Palliative Medicine services across the continuum. The Care Manager (Palliative Medicine) functions as a coordinator of patient care, assesses, plans, implements, monitors, and evaluates all options and services with the goal of optimizing the patient's quality of life. The Care Manager (Palliative Medicine) integrates evidence-based clinical guidelines, preventative guidelines, protocols, and other metrics in the development of transitions of care plans that are patient-centric, promoting quality and efficiency in the delivery of healthcare for the targeted high-risk population. The Care Manager (Palliative Medicine) monitors patients across the health continuum with a focus on effective and safe transitions through the healthcare system with a goal to optimize resources, quality of life and reduce avoidable readmissions back to acute care. The Care Manager (Palliative Medicine) manages performance feedback metrics to further refine the care model to maximize clinical, quality, and fiscal outcomes for the targeted population. This role will also complete tasks related to patient assessments, rounding with the PM&SC providers, providing support for organizing and completing of tasks with PM&SC providers, providing support of discharge processes and patient charges. The delivery of professional nursing care at Stormont Vail Health is guided by Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring and the theory of Shared governance, both of which are congruent with the mission, vision, and values of the organization.
Education Qualifications
Experience Qualifications
2 years Nursing experience in an acute or ambulatory setting. Required
Experience with palliative care. Preferred
Case/care management experience. Preferred
Skills and Abilities
Demonstrates prudent professional and clinical judgement, effective problem solving skills, critical thinking, excellent organizational and interpersonal skills, creativity, flexibility, and the ability to multi-task. (Required proficiency)
Demonstrates ability to be self-directed and purposeful in seeking the necessary knowledge and skills to enhance professionalism in order to provide high-quality care. (Required proficiency)
Demonstrates ability to function effectively in a fluid, dynamic, and rapidly changing environment. (Required proficiency)
Demonstrates customer focused interpersonal skills to interact in an effective manner with practitioners, the interdisciplinary health care team, community agencies, patients, and families with diverse opinions, values, and religious and cultural ideals. (Required proficiency)
Demonstrates ability to work autonomously and be directly accountable for practice. (Required proficiency)
Demonstrates leadership qualities including time management, verbal and written communication skills, listening skills, priority setting, and work organization. (Required proficiency)
Licenses and Certifications
What you will do
Actively participates with Palliative Medicine team meetings and participates in the expansion of Palliative Medicine services. Collaborates with the Palliative Medicine team and Palliative Medicine physicians, social work staff, and other care team members to ensure optimal care coordination for the patient. Establish and maintain a supportive, collegial role with primary care/specialty practices engaged in improvement activity, particularly including assigned practices and their individual improvement team members.
Establish and maintain a supportive, collegial role with primary care practices engaged in improvement activity, particularly including assigned practices and their individual improvement team members.
Initiates communication with patients upon learning they have been identified as high risk / targeted population.
Pulls data from multiple systems and merge together to create a complete performance picture related to targeted populations. Implements interventions based on data and established guidelines. Monitors data for trends and individual outliers. Analyzes data for process improvement opportunities to impact patient outcomes.
Provides disease/treatment specific education to both patients and families.
Guides patients through the health care system.
Participates in system wide/department patient care quality improvement activities as well as standards developments. Works closely with the cross-functional teams to define analysis needs, identify trends and propose solutions.
Efficiently documents medical information using the appropriate forms and/or electronic applications.
Oversees scheduled appointment(s). Oversees patient testing and admissions.
Appropriately delegates tasks and duties in the direction and coordination of health care team members, patient care, and department activities in accordance with the Kansas State Nurse Practice Act; demonstrates knowledge of KSNPA statutes and regulations.
Travel Requirements
Required for All Jobs
Complies with all policies, standards, mandatory training and requirements of Stormont Vail Health
Performs other duties as assigned
Patient Facing Options
Remote Work Guidelines
Workspace is a quiet and distraction-free allowing the ability to comply with all security and privacy standards.
Stable access to electricity and a minimum of 25mb upload and internet speed.
Dedicate full attention to the job duties and communication with others during working hours.
Adhere to break and attendance schedules agreed upon with supervisor.
Abide by Stormont Vail’s Remote Worker Policy and will review and acknowledge the Remote Work Agreement annually.
Remote Work Capability
Scope
Physical Demands
Balancing: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
Carrying: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
Climbing (Ladders): Rarely less than 1 hour
Climbing (Stairs): Rarely less than 1 hour
Crawling: Rarely less than 1 hour
Crouching: Rarely less than 1 hour
Driving (Automatic): Occasionally 1-3 Hours
Driving (Standard): Occasionally 1-3 Hours
Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
Feeling: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
Grasping (Fine Motor): Occasionally 1-3 Hours
Grasping (Gross Hand): Occasionally 1-3 Hours
Handling: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
Hearing: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
Kneeling: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
Lifting: Occasionally 1-3 Hours up to 50 lbs
Operate Foot Controls: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
Pulling: Occasionally 1-3 Hours up to 25 lbs
Pushing: Occasionally 1-3 Hours up to 25 lbs
Reaching (Forward): Occasionally 1-3 Hours up to 25 lbs
Reaching (Overhead): Occasionally 1-3 Hours up to 25 lbs
Repetitive Motions: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
Sitting: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
Standing: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
Stooping: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
Talking: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
Walking: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
Working Conditions
Burn: Rarely less than 1 hour
Chemical: Rarely less than 1 hour
Combative Patients: Rarely less than 1 hour
Dusts: Rarely less than 1 hour
Electrical: Rarely less than 1 hour
Explosive: Rarely less than 1 hour
Extreme Temperatures: Rarely less than 1 hour
Infectious Diseases: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
Mechanical: Rarely less than 1 hour
Needle Stick: Rarely less than 1 hour
Noise/Sounds: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
Other Atmospheric Conditions: Rarely less than 1 hour
Poor Ventilation, Fumes and/or Gases: Rarely less than 1 hour
Radiant Energy: Rarely less than 1 hour
Risk of Exposure to Blood and Body Fluids: Rarely less than 1 hour
Risk of Exposure to Hazardous Drugs: Rarely less than 1 hour
Hazards (other): Rarely less than 1 hour
Vibration: Rarely less than 1 hour
Wet and/or Humid: Rarely less than 1 hour
Stormont Vail is an equal opportunity employer and adheres to the philosophy and practice of providing equal opportunities for all employees and prospective employees, without regard to the following classifications: race, color, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, uniformed service, disability or genetic information. This applies to all aspects of employment practices including hiring, firing, pay, benefits, promotions, lateral movements, job training, and any other terms or conditions of employment.
Retaliation is prohibited against any person who files a claim of discrimination, participates in a discrimination investigation, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment act based upon the above classifications.
