Registered Nurse (RN) Case manager

Job Title: Registered Nurse (RN) Case manager
Locations: Pasadena, CA
Duration: 3 Months+  (Possible Extension)

Shift: 08:30 AM to 05:00 PM / Day
Pay range: $50 - $53 Per Hour. on w2
 
Job Description:
We are currently seeking a dedicated and skilled RN Case manager to join our healthcare team for a 3 Month assignment in Pasadena, CA. This is a fantastic opportunity for a RN professional looking to make a meaningful impact while enjoying flexibility, great pay, and the possibility of contract extension.
As a Physical Therapist, you will assess, plan, and implement rehabilitative programs to help patients regain physical function and improve mobility. You’ll work in a supportive clinical environment and collaborate with other healthcare professionals to deliver the highest standard of patient care.
 
Job Summary:
The Case Manager is a member of the Interdisciplinary Care Team (ICT) and will work in collaboration with the team to deliver and manage all aspects of participant care. The Case Manager will conduct required PACE assessments and develop and follow individualized participant Care Plans as well as address patient needs, communicate with participants and their families, advocate for participant needs to be met. In partnership with the Primary Care Provider, the Case Manager is responsible for delivering care in the center, in participant’s homes, at skilled nursing facilities or any other type of short-term or long-term care setting, managing participant and family care needs.

Job Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of the outcomes and quality of care for their assigned participant panel, working directly and in tandem with the PCP, utilizing other clinic resources to function at the top of their license.
• Conduct in-clinic, at home, and virtual PACE required assessments, educate participants and their support network on acute, chronic, and endstage conditions, perform urgent and routine virtual or in-person follow-up visits as determined by the participant’s risk stratification and needs and as a direct extension to the PCP.
• Develop and implement a discipline specific plan of care (POC) in collaboration with the IDT, participants, families or POAs to ensure delivery of high quality, value-based, holistic, participant-centric, and compassionate care, capturing their assessments, findings, relevant information, plan and respective actions through their timely and compliant documents in EHR.
• Identify participants overt problems and needs, be able to determine priorities and appropriately escalate to the Primary Care Provider and collaborate effectively with other team members of IDT regarding these.
• Coordinate the care for select participants with highest level of complexity, including those at the hospital, ER, and skilled facility level of care with the Complex Care Team to ensure seamless transitions of care, participant satisfaction, and to prevent unfavourable outcomes, inappropriate utilization of resources, and unnecessary hospitalizations.
• In collaboration with the PCP, attend to Clinical Inbox, to ensure that orders are completed in a timely manner, test results and documents are reviewed, followed up on, and appropriate actions are taken, documented, and communicated with their participants.
• Perform and document ordered procedures and care in clinic or in the home when a home visit is required or deemed necessary, in accordance with Product of practice, as directed by PCP.
• Communicate participant changes to interdisciplinary team including post-procedure or post discharge needs and any changes in level of care, condition, or functional status.

 
Job Responsibilities:

• Minimum of two years of nursing experience in a clinical setting with a frail or elderly population.
• Active RN license for State of CA.