RN Care Manager PCT Marysville – Hybrid

$7,500 Sign on Bonus for External Candidates

For those who want to invent the future of health care, here’s your opportunity. We’re going beyond basic care to health programs integrated across the entire continuum of care. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. 

Complex care case management seeks to provide thoughtful, tailored nursing support to patients across a spectrum of illnesses of varying severity and progression. Our patients may be anywhere along a continuum from adjusting to a “new normal” all the way through to transitioning to hospice care. Many of our patients dealing with serious illness benefit from assistance in understanding their medical reality.  Therefore, this position integrates palliative approaches to care in our primary care setting.  This role works closely with physicians, social workers, other specialty teams (like palliative care, oncology, etc.) to ensure coordinated and value-concordant care.  In addition, CM RN will work closely with colleagues in local hospitals, SNFs, and hospices.  RN CM will participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings to coordinate an iterative plan of care for our most complex, high-risk patients, as well as those dealing with natural decline.  This complex work benefits from a nursing approach that is focused on creative problem solving and big-picture awareness rather than short-term solutions and reliance on strict rubrics.

Position in this function provides physicians and other health care professionals with appropriate care management tools, support, education and information to enable real time clinical decision-making.  Delegates specific tasks of plan of care to Medical Assistants and Health Coaches and oversees the plan of care to ensure protocols are followed and desired outcomes are achieved.  Practices within the scope of nursing rules and regulations as established by the Washington Department of Health.  Complies with all reporting requirements, including operational protocol submittals. Provides effective care management across the care continuum and suggests and implements methods to improve cost effectiveness and quality of care. 

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Care Management activities include early identification of high-risk patients, concerted planning involving physicians and mid-level practitioners, monitoring of services provided by outside physicians, home health, DME, and other providers; monitoring emergency department use as well as identifying opportunities to decrease emergency department utilization and other elements of care utilization
• Provides effective care management across the care continuum, including coordination involving internal and external providers of care, families and other entities, as appropriate
• Works in collaboration with colleagues in multiple care settings to determine patients’ barriers and needs utilizing clinical skills and independent decision making
• Engages in proactive, concurrent care management for patients with chronic or complex medical conditions
• Performs visits to patient home, skilled nursing home stays or while in-patient at a neighboring hospital

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.