Acute Care Manager (RN) - Per Diem

Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic; Fort Lauderdale (FL); On-site; USD 55,000 - 83,000; Part time

Job summary

Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic is seeking a Part-time Acute Care Manager to coordinate and manage care, ensure handover, and reduce fragmentation across the care continuum. This on-site per diem role requires an RN with clinical expertise and strong communication with interprofessional teams.

The role emphasizes documentation accuracy, optimizing level-of-care decisions, and collaboration with admission teams to ensure smooth patient transitions. BLS as a minimum licensure, ACLS preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in nursing preferred.
• 3–5 years of direct patient care or case management experience in a similar size hospital preferred.
• Acting independently with ability to analyze clinical, financial and social situations, and directing the healthcare team.

Responsibilities

• Participates in Performance Projects (A3) to be determined by Manager/Director.
• Ensures appropriate clinical documentation to support level of care and analyzes patient status/history for gaps.
• Serves as a consultant and educator with medical staff regarding status, payer requirements, and utilization of resources.
• Assures appropriate sequencing of care/interventions for optimal results and smooth transition along hospital care continuum.
• Coordinates level of care appropriateness with admission status determination.
• Maintains knowledge of healthcare economics and applies to daily practice.

Skills

Independent decision-making

Analytical skills

Clinical documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in nursing

Job description

Employment Type: Part time Shift: Description: ***On Site Per Diem Position***

Purpose: The goal of the Acute Care Manager is to coordinate and manage care to assist patients in meeting their multiple needs, ensure handover and continuity of services, and to decrease fragmentation of care and services. Works collaboratively with members of the interprofessional acute care, ambulatory and post-acute care management teams to improve communication across the continuum of care.

What you will do

• Participates in Performance Projects (A3) to be determined by Manager/Director.
• Ensures appropriate clinical documentation to support level of care. Analyzes the patient's current clinical status, treatment plan and past medical history to identify potential gaps on physician documentation. Identifies the principal diagnosis and all secondary conditions, co-morbidities, complications and procedures that have been documented in the medical record.
• Serves as a consultant and educator with medical staff regarding status, placement, payer requirements, and utilization of resources.
• Assures appropriate sequencing of care/interventions for optimal results and smooth transition along hospital care and continuum.
• Proactively identifies and removes barriers that impede the progress of care. Coordinates level of care appropriateness with admission status determination.
• Assures clear admission order. Meets and acts on cases not meeting admission criteria. Anticipates principal diagnosis and procedures.
• Maintains current knowledge of basic health care economics, trends and reimbursements methodologies and applies knowledge to daily practice. Recognizes situations that require immediately intervention/ Continues to develop professionally and apply knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to each patient.

Minimum Qualifications

• A Bachelor's Degree in nursing is preferred with a minimum of 3 years clinical experience.
• Experience: 3-5 years of direct patient care or case management experience in a similar size, similar scope hospital preferred.
• Special Training/Skills: Acting independently, must demonstrate an ability to analyze clinical, financial, and social situations, identifying problems and alternative courses of actions, and directing the healthcare team, with a sense of urgency and a drive

Licensure

• Current license as a Registered Nurse in the State of Florida.
• BLS Required; ACLS Preferred

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Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, faith-based health care systems in the nation. Together, we’re 121,000 colleagues and nearly 36,500 physicians and clinicians caring for diverse communities across 27 states. Nationally recognized for care and experience, our system includes 101 hospitals, 126 continuing care locations, the second largest PACE program in the country, 136 urgent care locations, and many other health and well-being services.

Based in Livonia, Michigan, in fiscal year 2023, we invested $1.5 billion in our communities through charity care and other community benefit programs.

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