Pine Park Health is hiring a
Registered Nurse

Summary

The job is for a Registered Nurse at Geriatric Specialty Care of Reno, focusing on in-home healthcare services for seniors. The role involves managing patient care, triage, coordination, and more. Requirements include excellent communication skills, teamwork abilities, problem-solving skills, knowledge of chronic care and regulations, 2 years of clinical experience, and current nursing license.

Requirements

• Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Tech savvy
• Must have superb teamwork abilities, especially with communication and follow up
• Demonstrates initiative toward problem solving
• Must be able to interface with providers and work closely with IDT members
• Prefer knowledge of chronic care and / or geriatric related diseases and treatment options
• Good understanding of all state and federal regulations applicable standards
• General knowledge of community resources
• Minimum of 2 years clinical experience as a nurse (preferably in case management, home health, community nursing or skilled/long term care.)
• Current unrestricted nursing license in the state of Nevada, California and/or Arizona

Responsibilities

• Functions as a member of the Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) to coordinate patient care to promote positive health outcomes
• Is responsible for clinically triaging all phone calls from providers, patients, caregivers and other outside agencies
• Coordinates services with insurance system and the community for benefits to promote the most appropriate disposition of the patient to meet the needs of the patient, family and insurance company when able
• Daily review of lab and diagnostic test results, reviews with providers and contacts patient or the responsible party with results and reviews plan of care
• Daily tasks: medication and lab orders, admit to SNF, DME, follow up on the status of orders/diagnostics, controlled and non-controlled refills, chart audit and preparation for Providers, patient and family phones calls, specialist referrals, document preparation, prior authorizations
• Provides daily Chronic Care Management for all eligible GSC patients and documents all CCM time
• Develops, implements and monitors Chronic Care Management Patient Centered Care Plans
• Provides Transitional Care for all GSC patients discharged from one level of care to another (acute care, skilled care, live discharge from hospice)
• Coordinates care with the following: acute care case management, ER’s, skilled nursing facilities, discharge planners, home health, hospice, EMS
• Participates in overall program development and adherence to policies, procedures, processes, state and federal regulations
• Acts as a resource to internal and external customers
• Assists with other duties as assigned

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible spending accounts
• Mental health stipend
• Professional development allowance
• Parental leave
• Paid time off