Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference.
Job Summary
Provides direct patient and family education through the continuum of care. Acts as a liaison between nursing and providers, ensuring high quality patient care while pursuing quality performance metrics.
Essential Functions
- All team members are expected to be knowledgeable and compliant with Prisma Health's values : Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference.
- Facilitates care to include service navigation, transmission of patient information, and care coordination.
- Assesses, plans, develops, implements, and evaluates formal and informal educational opportunities and materials for patients, families, care providers, and the community.
- Coordinates care and educates physicians and other staff to facilitate the effective use of clinical and financial resources, focusing on admission, concurrent / continued stay and discharge planning needs.
- Collaborates and communicates with a diverse medical, nursing, and ancillary staff regarding strategies for improving and maintaining appropriate and timely resources.
- Serves as a resource to physicians, social workers and other staff for quality and utilization issues as well as discharge planning needs.
- Develops collaborative working relationships with medical staff members to coordinate data collection, processing, and project implementation.
- Serves as a clinical resource and consultant to provide answers to questions pertinent to area of practice and determines appropriate resources for nursing units, ancillary departments, and the community / public.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Supervisory / Management Responsibilities
Job has direct and / or indirect supervision of team members that may include final budget authority, hire / termination authority, performance appraisal responsibility and disciplinary authority. Job will be considered a member of management staff at Prisma Health Company or affiliate and will have direct reports.Minimum Requirements
Education - Bachelor's degree in NursingExperience - Three (3) years of experience in Behavioral HealthIn Lieu Of
NARequired Certifications, Registrations, Licenses
Holds a current RN compact / multistate license recognized by the NCSBN Compact State or is licensed to practice as an RN in the state the team member is working.A valid driver's license; an acceptable motor vehicle record, as defined by the Acceptable Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) Chart; and proof of auto insurance.Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Computer proficiencyClinical knowledge base with ability to interpret and analyze dataCommunication skills areGrandfather Clause
Any incumbent in this position prior to 1-1-25 is required to have a nursing diploma or Associate's degree in nursing rather than a BSN.
Work Shift
Day (United States of America)
Location
Baptist
Facility
1510 Richland Hospital
Department
Case Management Psych
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