Care Coordinator/ RN (Infectious Disease)
Minneapolis, MN
Posted 3 weeks ago
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Accesses, analyzes, plans and provides follow-up care.
- Facilitates timely referrals and fosters positive relations with community providers.
- Evaluates and documents status and follows patient progress through phone calls, test results and report preparation. Evaluates quality of nursing care via patient rounds.
- Identifies problems that are specific to the clinical specialty.
- Provides pro-active disease management using evidence based practices.
- Serves as a liaison between patient/family, medical staff and others involved in treatment, promoting patient centered care based on jointly determined health care goals and priorities
- Collaborates with appropriate staff to provide coordinated transition of care across the healthcare continuum.
- Facilitates timely referrals and fosters positive relations with community providers.
- Provides direct patient care in the area of specialty.
- Establishes individual nursing care plans.
- Provides education, counseling, medication management, and general health information to patients and patient representatives.
- Triages patient concerns and responds to patient concerns between visits under provider direction, to reduce relapse or inpatient care.
- Functions as a resource to patient care units, outpatient clinics and medical staff regarding the clinical specialty.
- Identifies need and assists in writing and implementing policies and procedures.
- Provides education services to patients and their families and other hospital staff regarding the clinical specialty. Develops content, resource materials and coordinates the educational plan.
- Serves on task forces and committees related to the clinical specialty.
- Keeps up to date on technological advances and new pharmaceutical products.
- Consults with other areas regarding specialty.
- Assists with research projects which may include collection data, data analysis and evaluation. May identify research projects.
- Manages database to track patient outcomes and other specific categories as directed by physician.
- Promotes program and assists with marketing efforts. Oversees or manages prior authorization process and results verification process to ensure positive image.
- Provide effective educational material.
- Serves as a community liaison.
- Performs other duties including Performance Goals developed by manager and employee and reported in the employee’s Performance Review as part of UMPhysicians’ Performance Management tools
- Develops and maintains critical competencies listed in this job description and the competencies drop down list in the employee’s online performance management tool.
- 3 years specialty experience doing care coordination or 5 years licensed RN with five years of clinical experience and ability to learn new specialty area
- MN Registered Nurse (RN) License
- Basic Life Support (American Heart Assoc or Red Cross) *this requirement does not apply to dept 8901 Ambulatory Care Coordination within 30 Days
- Licensed RN with four year Baccalaureate Degree
- 2 years RN experience in the specialty area or previous care coordination experience
- Specialized knowledge of the specialty and conditions of served population
Qualifications:
Fairview Health Services
Fairview Health Services is Minnesota’s choice for healthcare. We’re an industry-leading, award-winning, nonprofit offering a full network of healthcare services. Our broad network is designed to be ready for our patients’ every need, while delivering quality care with compassion.Our care portfolio includes community hospitals, academic hospitals, primary and specialty care clinics, senior facilities, facilitated living centers, rehabilitation centers, home health care services, counseling, pharmacies and benefit management services.We’re built on a tradition of compassionate care. This is our home, and our patients are our neighbors. We’re here to heal, we’re here for you.We are part of M Health Fairview, an expanded academic health system that represents a collaboration among the University of Minnesota, University of Minnesota Physicians, and Fairview Health Services. The partnership combines the university’s deep history of clinical innovation and training with Fairview’s extensive roots in community medicine. Together, we’re expanding access to world-class, patient-centered care through our 10 hospitals, 60 primary care clinics, specialty clinics, pharmacies, home care, hospice, and medical transportation service. Fairview also operates the Ebenezer senior living communities and offers Employer Solutions such as EAP and pharmacy benefit management. Search for jobs and apply at https://www.fairview.org/careers.
Salaries
Posted range
$86K/yr – $121K/yr
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