Overview Take your nursing career to the next level as a Case Manager (full time, days) at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist! Our world-class and compassionate care team unite expertise with empathy, ensuring every patient's story ends with triumph over their toughest battles.
Position Highlights Shift Schedule: Full time, Days, Monday - Friday, 8a-5p
Department: Care Coordination
Location: Winston Salem Campus
What We Offer Day 1 Health Coverage: Choose from either copay or HSA-eligible health insurance options with coverage starting on your first day of work.
Generous PTO: Accrue up to 25 days/year, to be used for vacations, sickness, holidays, and personal matters.
Education Reimbursement: Up to $2,500 per year towards a bachelor\'s degree and up to $5,000 per year towards a graduate degree.
Wellness Incentives: Up to $1,500 per year in wellness incentives through the LiveWELL program.
Parental Benefits: Six weeks of paid birthing-mother maternity leave and four weeks of paid parental leave.
Retirement: Up to 7% employer-paid retirement contributions.
What You\'ll Need Graduation from an accredited School of Nursing; BSN required. MSN preferred.
Registered Nurse licensure from the State of North Carolina Board of Nursing
Minimum 2 years of relevant clinical experience. Previous Case Management experience preferred.
Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) required
Certification in Case Management highly recommended within 2 years of employment.
How You\'ll Impact Patient Care Energizing healthcare at its core, we deliver nursing care through a dynamic process – assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating. We unite with a diverse group of healthcare professionals, weaving together age-appropriate and developmentally sensitive care that meets high nursing standards.
Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Identifies patients who would benefit from Case Management interventions based on an initial screening assessment of discharge needs.
Assesses all relevant data and obtains information by interviewing patient/family and performing objective evaluation of patient needs.
Ensures that a Plan of Care is developed and implemented in conjunction with nursing to enhance client outcomes in a cost-efficient manner by defining desired patient outcomes (goals) with other members of team.
Collaborates with the patient, caregivers, the multidisciplinary team and community service providers to effectively execute the Plan of Care. Facilitates.
The Case Manager coordinates the discharge planning process; ensuring discharge planning needs are completed.
Evaluates and monitors the effectiveness of the discharge planning by facilitating changes in Plan of Care as needed with all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
Documents Case Management actions in the Electronic Medical Record and communicates necessary information to providers and payors.
Participates in multi-disciplinary rounds to communicate discharge planning and be the driver of patient progression through the system.
Establishes partnerships with physicians to achieve institutional goals and contribute to excellent patient care by the organization.
Identifies system issues and suggests interventions to the Supervisor to eliminate duplication in services and documents significant variances.
Identifies trends/process barriers and participates in development of plans to ensure a method to move patients effectively through the care continuum. Monitors medical necessity of admissions, continued hospitalization, and surgical procedures using criteria approved by the medical staff and evaluates appropriate level of care for patient and notifies the Utilization Review staff of necessary changes.
Utilizes principles of quality improvement in every aspect of performance by participating in unit and organizational quality improvement activities to develop strategies to reduce or resolve variations in practice.
Provides age/developmentally-appropriate patient planning and communication in accordance with Age-Specific Care Guidelines for the specific age groups served.
Maintains working knowledge of payer and reimbursement practices impacting the plan of care.
Demonstrates the ability to guide the patient and family through an evaluation of their options for post discharge care.
If you are a dedicated nurse looking to make a difference in patient care, we welcome you to be a part of our team in Case Management. Join us and experience the fulfillment of providing exceptional healthcare in a supportive and dynamic environment. Apply today!
Commitment to You Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – including:
Compensation
Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate\'s job
Incentive pay for select positions
Opportunity for annual increases based on performance
Benefits and more
Paid Time Off programs
Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and short- and long-term disability
Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
Educational Assistance Program
About Advocate Health
Advocate Health is a large nonprofit health system with a history of clinical innovation and value-based care. It includes Wake Forest Baptist affiliations and operates across multiple sites. This description is maintained for internal use and does not alter eligibility requirements or job duties.