Case Manager NEX

LOCATION: Akron, Ohio

CATEGORY: nursing

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Overview

At Akron Children’s, careers in nursing feel different. You make an impact on a daily basis, face-to-face, on children and their families. You do much more than treat patients. As the individual your patients come to recognize, rely on and smile at, you go beyond the title of nurse. Because this is more than a job. It’s what you were meant to do.

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Job Description

Job Requisition Number 30413

Behavioral Health Unit

part time 24 hours/week

Days 8a-430p

Onsite

Summary:

The Case Manager assumes accountability and responsibility for managing the hospitalization of a caseload of patients from pre-admission through one week post-discharge.

Responsibilities:

Assumes accountability and responsibility for managing the hospitalization of a caseload of patients from pre-admission through one week post-discharge.
Facilitates coordination of care by all members of the health care team to facilitate achievement of appropriate outcomes.
Completes educational responsibilities.
Performs leadership duties.
Performs quality assurance and performance improvement duties.
Performs communication and networking duties.
Performs systems based practice duties.
Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care for the physical, psych/social, educational, and safety needs of the patients served regardless of age.
Other duties as required.

Other information:

Technical Expertise

Experience in case management is preferred.
Experience working with all levels within an organization is required.
Proficiency in MS Office [Outlook, Excel, Word] or similar software is required. Epic software or similar EMR software is required.

Education and Experience

Education: Bachelor's degree in Nursing [BSN] is required; Master's degree is preferred.
Certification: Registered Nurse licensure is required.

Current Health Care Provider BLS training from the American Heart Association is required.
CCM or CCCTM Certification is preferred.

Years of relevant experience: 3 to 5 years is required.
Years of experience supervising: None

Part Time

FTE: 0.600000

Status: Onsite

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Grow Your Career with Akron Children’s

Here at Akron Children's, we offer many ways for our nurses to succeed and grow professionally. There are multiple ways to grow your nursing career into areas such as leadership, education/professional development, advanced practice, informatics, research, quality, and more.

Benefits

Benefits for Akron Children’s team members go far beyond their compensation. Our comprehensive benefits program offers coverage, connections and resources that enable you to live your best life while growing your career.

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Employee Highlight

What inspires me as a nurse manager is my team of staff nurses and how dedicated they are. It doesn't matter how busy we are. They work and continue to work until the job is done.

Karan Johnson
Nurse Manager, Adolescent Unit