Inpatient Care Manager RN: Discharge and Care Coordination

Cancer Nursing Today; Morristown (NJ); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription

Life & AD&D Insurance

403(b) Retirement Plan

Job summary

Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center is seeking a Nurse Case Manager to oversee patient care across the illness continuum. You will work with the Case Management leadership to assess, plan, implement, coordinate, monitor and evaluate services to maximize patient health and resource use.

You will lead interdisciplinary rounds, review utilization, enable timely discharges, and ensure thorough clinical documentation in the EMR. Nursing licensure in NJ and acute care experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing required.
• Valid New Jersey Nursing License required.
• Minimum of 3 years of Acute Care experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manages, coordinates, and facilitates the care delivered to patients through patient/family assessment and multidisciplinary collaboration.
• Ensures daily chart review, utilization reviews, discharge planning coordination, and comprehensive clinical documentation in the electronic medical record.
• Provides interdisciplinary patient care rounds, and identifies and works to resolve quality of care issues, barriers to progression of care and discharge delays.
• Forms, coordinates and implements discharge plans and an efficient plan of care to ensure safe, timely and effective discharge plan.
• Works with the interdisciplinary healthcare team to manage and assist the patient care plan.
• Performs variance tracking, outcome analysis and identifies problems to assess the effectiveness of the clinical pathways.
• Servers as a representative of the department and for the hospital community outreach.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Nursing

Job description

Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center is seeking a Nurse Case Manager to oversee patient care across the illness continuum. You will work with the Case Management leadership to assess, plan, implement, coordinate, monitor and evaluate services to maximize patient health and resource use.

You will lead interdisciplinary rounds, review utilization, enable timely discharges, and ensure thorough clinical documentation in the EMR. Nursing licensure in NJ and acute care experience are essential.