Rn Case Manager

The RN Case Manager provides total, comprehensive, direct patient care and plan of care oversight through the process of assessment and evaluation.

Essential Functions: This position functions independently within the professional scope of practice including:

1. Case finding & Management: provide direct patient care and assessment, oversight of plan-of care development and implementation.
2. Diagnosing: identification & discrimination between physical & psychosocial signs and symptoms essential to effective execution and management of the nursing regimen.
3. Treating: execution of prescribed medical regimen & direct orders from authorized healthcare providers, administer medications and treatments during home visits as needed to effectively control patient symptomatology.
4. Measuring Human Responses & Patient Outcomes: evaluate signs, symptoms and processes which denote individual interaction with an actual or potential health problem.
5. Health Teaching & Counseling: educate patients/families on palliative and end-of-life care and issues in a proactive manner, thoroughly explain procedures to patients before executing the same.
6. Care Supportive of Life and Well Being: demonstrate respect of patient/family choices, values and behaviors, advocates for the choices of patients/families.
7. Professional Communication & Documentation: communicates progress of patients to advanced practitioners accordingly, complete patient profiles/summaries promptly, record patient’s condition, treatment and response, chart required information in the MISYS Homecare System.
8. Indirect Patient Support & Management Activities: place referrals for necessary supportive services; act as a liaison to contracted hospitals and nursing facilities as assigned.
9. Professional Performance: demonstrate knowledge and competencies required of the position, understand & demonstrate knowledge of the NYS Nurse Practice Act, NYS and federal guidelines/codes governing Hospice and the accrediting body.

Education & Qualifications:

• Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing (required)
• Minimum of three (3) years of nursing experience preferred
• RN Licensure in New York State (required)
• Valid NYS Drivers License

Niagara Hospice Offers outstanding benefits, including;

• Great work/life balance
• Health Insurance with full employer paid option for yourself and family
• 403b for retirement savings
• 19 days of PTO your first year plus paid holidays
• Company paid Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance
• Company Pension after 1 year of service with the organization

If you have an empathetic approach to helping others and making a difference, we invite you to apply. Visit us at NiagaraHospice.org. Please apply online at www.niagarahospice.org/careers. EOE