Registered Nurse Case Manager

Currently recruiting a Registered Nurse (RN) Case Manager to work the Directorate of Healthcare Operations (DHO) at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. Full-time, Monday - Friday between 7: 00AM and 4: 30PM. At WRNMMC, contract employees shall be required to work varying shifts (8 to 12 hours) weekdays in a two-week period. Scheduling is always based on the needs of the MTF and must be coordinated through the requisite department POC and MTF COR. The specific schedule for each two-week period will be provided one month in advance. DUTIES OF THE REGISTERED NURSE CASE MANAGER (RN): The contracted RN shall provide the following services and in strict compliance with standing orders and protocols set forth by the MTF and IAW JC guidelines to include, the following: Provide professional case management services at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) or Fort Belvoir Community Hospital (FBCH).Function as a member of a multidisciplinary team to meet individual and family comprehensive health needs. Duties involve planning, coordinating, facilitating, and evaluating health care, serving as an advocate for patient options and services.Utilize communication and available resources to promote quality and cost-effective outcomes, across the continuum of care.Serves as a clinical case manager and patient advocate, providing advanced practice clinical, administrative, and organizational skills in managing the continuity, access, and provision of care services for complex and defined patients, to include catastrophic and end-of-life patient populations.Responsible for identification and management of patients with targeted, high risk and high cost diagnoses.Independently perform difficult and complex assessment, review, coordination, planning, monitoring, evaluation and analysis of cases.Screen potential case management clients, following identification for appropriateness/benefit of case management services. Interviews and provides individual counseling, as needed.Address services needed to optimize current health, psycho-social, spiritual status, and benefits of case management services.As required, enter approved metrics, patient data, and clinical progress notes into a prescribed database.Conduct comprehensive assessment of patients, to establish in detail and specificity, the nature of their care needs, as well as causal and contributing conditions and circumstances.Conduct comprehensive clinical interviews with the patient and other family members, as warranted, and collects pertinent data from all involved health care agencies, medical providers and resource programs.Participate in a multi-disciplinary team to develop a treatment plan to address all identified conditions and problems.Identify psychosocial aspects of anticipated care needs, to identify potential barriers to optimal health, resource utilization, and methods for minimizing barriers.Assist the patient and the family in developing, documenting, and implementing appropriate care plans, and accessing agencies and care providers.Apply a holistic approach to address health care needs, in collaboration with all health team members, to include the patient and the patient's family, as warranted.Serve as advocate for patients and their families, in obtaining services and support.Serve as a senior nursing leader and advances the nursing profession in case management. Introduces innovative nursing techniques, practices, and approaches, in collaboration with health care providers, to identify, plan, assess, and coordinate care programs, designed to provide efficient, comprehensive, and cost effective service for case-managed patients, throughout the continuum of care.Conduct training in nurse case management for professional and paraprofessionals personnel, within the medical treatment facility (MTF). Provide education, counseling, and clinical assistance, in advanced techniques, to nursing personnel, medical students, interns/residents, staff physicians, and administrators. Provide formal and informal consultation, briefings, and educational offerings.Represent the case management service, on or before, a variety of committees, boards, agencies, and concerned groups, as directed.Coordinate with a patient-focused multidisciplinary team of clinicians to develop timeline protocols and high quality, affordable health care for selected case-managed patients and beneficiaries, facilitating desirable patient outcomes.Identify strategies to improve patient access, reduce administrative burdens for DOD beneficiaries, and improve the cost effectiveness for the civilian/military health care delivery system. Identify problems with health care access and utilization, in both the military and civilian sectors, and recommends alternatives to overcome difficulties.Interface with local, state, and federal agencies in obtaining regulations, policy manuals, and handouts, developing procedural guidelines to provide access to available …