Registered Nurse

Overview

As a Patient Care Coordinator, you will play a crucial role in providing excellent patient care by collaborating with the healthcare team and optimizing outcomes. You will lead the coordination of patient care, ensuring consistency with the patient’s clinical course and continuing care needs. Your responsibilities will also include discussing resource utilization with physicians, focusing on complex patients, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Key Responsibilities ● Provides excellent patient care by assisting in collaboration, development, implementation, revision and reporting of the case management program. ● Acts as a liaison between the patient, family, nurse, physicians, multidisciplinary team and patient's healthcare benefactor to optimize outcomes. ● Leads the coordination of patient care with other disciplines within the care team, monitoring the appropriateness and timeliness of care. ● Ensures the interdisciplinary care plan is consistent with the patient’s clinical course, continuing care needs and covered services by monitoring diagnostic testing, treatments and procedures, and other aspects of patient care as appropriate for acute care. ● Discusses with physicians, the appropriateness of resource utilization, consultations, treatment plan, estimated length of stay and discharge plan. ● Focuses on complex patients, frequent emergency department utilizers, chronic pain and substance abuse patients, and homeless patients. ● Collaborates with acute care case managers to ensure appropriateness on ongoing care. ● Coordinates the transfer of patients to tertiary centers, including the transfer of patient information required for continuity of ongoing treatment and services. ● Provides oversight and collects data required for regulatory/accreditation compliance. ● Manages frequent emergency department visitors by conducting a focus study review of the previous and current admissions. Schedule and Shift Details ● 8-hour shifts, rotating weekends as needed (2-3 per month) Travel ● Local travel required

Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience in ANY of the following:
  • Home Health Care
  • Home Health
• Associate degree or higher
• ALL of the following valid licenses/certifications:
  • Registered Nurse (RN) in Hawaii (HI)
  • Regular Driver License (DL)
• Registered Nurse (2+ years)
• Covid Vaccinated
• Flu Vaccinated

Company

Our client is an MSP working with a facility/clinic in Kaneohe, HI.