Registered Nurse -Case Manager

**Core Responsibilities:**

The responsibilities encompass, but are not limited to, the following:

• Engage comprehensively in all stages of the Case Management Program (CMP), ensuring adherence to established case management (CM) standards of care.

• Provide advanced nursing insight into the CM process, which includes assessment, planning, implementation, coordination, and monitoring. Identify and leverage opportunities for case management while integrating local case management processes.

• Formulate and execute local strategies employing a blend of inpatient, outpatient, onsite, and telephonic case management approaches.

• Design and implement tools to facilitate effective case management, such as patient identification and assessment tools, clinical practice guidelines, algorithms, CM software, and databases for community resources.

• Integrate case management (CM) with utilization management (UM), while aligning nursing case management with the practices of social work case management.

• Maintain collaborative relationships with community agencies and organizations to enhance resource utilization.

• Systematically collect and document patient care data with accuracy and integrity.

• Develop personalized treatment plans that incorporate preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitative, psychosocial, and clinical interventions, ensuring continuity of care with the goal of achieving optimal wellness.

• Establish and implement mechanisms to assure the fidelity of patient treatment plans and effective follow-up post-discharge across ambulatory and community healthcare settings.

• Deliver targeted healthcare education to patients and/or caregivers based on assessed learning needs.

**Work Schedule:**

Monday to Friday, requiring 9 hours of service between 7:00 AM and 4:30 PM, inclusive of a one-hour lunch break.

**Minimum Qualifications:**

**Degree:** Associate's degree in nursing. -

**Education:** Graduation from an accredited nursing program recognized by a regional or national accrediting agency, such as the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). -

**Experience:** A minimum of 1 year of experience as a Registered Nurse Case Manager within the last 24 months. -

**Certification:** Must hold one of the following certifications:

• Certification from the Commission for Case Manager Certification (CCM)

• Certified Disability Management Specialist (CDMS) from the Certification of Disability Management Specialists Commission

• Certified Rehabilitation Registered Nurse (CRRN) from the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses

• Certified Occupational Health Nurse (COHN) or Certified Occupational Health Nurse-Specialist (COHN-S) from the American Board for Occupational Health Nurses

• Advanced Certification in Continuity of Care (ACCC) from the National Board for Certification in Continuity of Care

• Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC) from the Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification

• Nurse Case Manager certification (RN-NCM) from the American Nurses Credentialing Center

• Care Manager Certified (CMC) from the National Academy of Certified Care Managers

**Licensure:** An active, unrestricted RN license from any state. -

**Life Support Certification:** Current Basic Life Support (BLS) Healthcare Provider certification from ARC or AHA.

• **Security:** Eligible to pass a government background check/security clearance.

This position is located at MacDill AFB and/or the Sabal Park Clinic as required.