Hospice Case Manager
A Brief Overview
Delivers care to patients utilizing the nursing process of assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, and evaluation in coordination with other health team members. Effectively interacts with the patient, patient family, and other health team members while maintaining high standards of professional nursing. Provides high quality care to the following patient populations: Adult patients experiencing a life limiting illness deemed to be in the last six months of life. Coordinates all hospice services required for optimal end of life care. Manages hospice resources for optimal patient care.
What You Will Do
- Accurate and timely record patient psychosocial assessments and interdisciplinary team meetings
- Recognize opportunities for documentation improvement and collaboration for plan of care.
- Effective and appropriate communication with providers, nursing and ancillary staff, and leaders.
- Ability to multi task and manage multiple priorities
- Accurate input of data and review of quality metrics.
- Demonstrate an understanding of medical complications, co-morbidities, severity of illness, risk of mortality, secondary diagnosis, and an ability to impart this knowledge to providers and other members of the interdisciplinary team.
- Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other health care team members as necessary.
- Gather and analyze information pertinent to documentation findings and outcomes.
- Timely follow up of culture results and communication.
- Understanding of social determinants of health screening and assisting the interdisciplinary team with communication of resources to the patient.
- Ability to manage patient's health concerns utilizing technology
- Regular and reliable attendance.
Qualifications
- Associate's Degree (AA) Graduate of an accredited school of nursing Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) Bachelor Degree in Science of Nursing (BSN) Preferred
- 1-3 years Acute Care Hospital Experience Preferred
- 1-3 years Prefer experience in Case Management and Discharge Planning Preferred
- Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities.
- Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services.
- Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation.
- Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions.
- Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Actively looking for ways to help people.
- The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. Formulates solutions to problems or contacts the appropriate person to correct the problem.
- The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Registered Nurse Iowa Board of Nursing (IBON) (United States of America) Required