Position Summary At Orlando Health Heart and Vascular Institute, our renowned cardiologists, heart and vascular surgeons, and cardiovascular professionals work together to provide award-winning care in 40 specialties, using the latest in diagnostic imaging and treatment options. Our multidisciplinary team includes more than 70 physicians in 24 locations across Central Florida, spanning Orange, Osceola, Lake, Seminole, Highlands and Okeechobee counties. As a part of Orlando Health, the Heart and Vascular Institute includes a network of community and specialty hospitals with more than 4,000 providers. Orlando Health | Choose Well Position Summary Collaborates with the assigned clinical team to identify patients most likely to benefit from care coordination services to include assessing patients' risk factors and the need for care coordination, clinical utilization management, and preventive care services. Responsibilities Essential Functions • Takes the lead in ensuring the continuity and consistency of care across the continuum (inpatient, emergency and ambulatory care/ outpatient) to ensure integrated delivery across all settings to include the facilitation, comprehensive discharge planning (in the hospital), and follow-up care (as an outpatient). • Develops an effective working relationship with the Patient and Family Counselors/Social Workers and the Utilization Review Nurses to engage the patient/family to collaborate, advocate, and problem solve to support and enhance their functional ability, while ensuring an appropriate and timely discharge plan. • Monitors progress towards discharge plans daily, need to alter discharge plan due to change in patient condition, and family needs with a priority placed on those patients at highest risk for complication, admission, or readmission. • Educates patients (& families) with chronic illness about evidence-based standards of care to include self-management strategies. • Identifies support needs for patients and their families, develops action plan(s), and provides creative guidance in initiating and overcoming any self-management strategies. • Educates patients and families about the health care system and facilitates relationship building between the various settings. • Ensures patients have access to prescriptions, durable medical equipment (DME), and other services as identified. • Contributes to problem solving within the team through communication, collaboration, data collection, obtaining consensus, and evaluating outcomes of treatment options to include tracking patient progress toward care plan goals and revising the care plan as indicated. • Advocates for patients in order to optimize their health care needs including but not limited to: safety, physical, and legal and financial well-being. • Refers patients to education regarding the healthcare delivery and reimbursement systems, prescription drug programs, health & wellness programs, community agencies, public and private organizations, housing options, and other services as appropriate. • Works with available IT resources (i.e. Phytel, Crimson) to facilitate registry reporting and maintenance of specified patient populations to improve disease outcome measures through evidence-based guidelines and the implementation of clinical decision support tools, referral and test tracking, and preventive medicine reminders. • Participates in clinical outcome measurement to include the identification of strategies that promote population health. • Ensures patient safety in the performance of job functions to include the implementation of policies, procedures, and standards to support assigned duties. • Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA, and other federal, state, and local standards. • Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures. Other Related Functions • Possesses excellent analytical and team building skills, as well as the ability to prioritize and work independently. • Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served though knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span. • Demonstrates awareness of medical/ legal issues, patient rights, and compliance with standards of regulatory and accrediting agencies. Qualifications Education/Training • For Team Members hired into this job prior to January 1, 2020: Completion of an accredited nursing (RN) education/training program. • Effective January 1, 2020: New Hires and Team Members moved into this job and/or transferring Depts. must obtain a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree (BSN) within 36 months of placement Licensure/Certification • Maintains current license as an RN in the State of Florida. • Maintains current BLS/ healthcare provider. Experience Three (3) years of direct clinical experience with an emphasis on the population to be served in the assigned area.Education/Training • For Team Members hired into this job prior to January 1, 2020: Completion of an accredited nursing (RN) education/training program. • Effective January 1, 2020: New Hires and Team Members moved into this job and/or transferring Depts. must obtain a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree (BSN) within 36 months of placement Licensure/Certification • Maintains current license as an RN in the State of Florida. • Maintains current BLS/ healthcare provider. Experience Three (3) years of direct clinical experience with an emphasis on the population to be served in the assigned area.Essential Functions • Takes the lead in ensuring the continuity and consistency of care across the continuum (inpatient, emergency and ambulatory care/ outpatient) to ensure integrated delivery across all settings to include the facilitation, comprehensive discharge planning (in the hospital), and follow-up care (as an outpatient). • Develops an effective working relationship with the Patient and Family Counselors/Social Workers and the Utilization Review Nurses to engage the patient/family to collaborate, advocate, and problem solve to support and enhance their functional ability, while ensuring an appropriate and timely discharge plan. • Monitors progress towards discharge plans daily, need to alter discharge plan due to change in patient condition, and family needs with a priority placed on those patients at highest risk for complication, admission, or readmission. • Educates patients (& families) with chronic illness about evidence-based standards of care to include self-management strategies. • Identifies support needs for patients and their families, develops action plan(s), and provides creative guidance in initiating and overcoming any self-management strategies. • Educates patients and families about the health care system and facilitates relationship building between the various settings. • Ensures patients have access to prescriptions, durable medical equipment (DME), and other services as identified. • Contributes to problem solving within the team through communication, collaboration, data collection, obtaining consensus, and evaluating outcomes of treatment options to include tracking patient progress toward care plan goals and revising the care plan as indicated. • Advocates for patients in order to optimize their health care needs including but not limited to: safety, physical, and legal and financial well-being. • Refers patients to education regarding the healthcare delivery and reimbursement systems, prescription drug programs, health & wellness programs, community agencies, public and private organizations, housing options, and other services as appropriate. • Works with available IT resources (i.e. Phytel, Crimson) to facilitate registry reporting and maintenance of specified patient populations to improve disease outcome measures through evidence-based guidelines and the implementation of clinical decision support tools, referral and test tracking, and preventive medicine reminders. • Participates in clinical outcome measurement to include the identification of strategies that promote population health. • Ensures patient safety in the performance of job functions to include the implementation of policies, procedures, and standards to support assigned duties. • Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA, and other federal, state, and local standards. • Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures. Other Related Functions • Possesses excellent analytical and team building skills, as well as the ability to prioritize and work independently. • Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served though knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span. • Demonstrates awareness of medical/ legal issues, patient rights, and compliance with standards of regulatory and accrediting agencies.
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