Job Description
Ranked nationally two years in a row as a "Best Places to Work" by Modern Healthcare, this growing northern California nonprofit healthcare organization is seeking an experienced and innovative RN-Case Manager who is squarely focused on collaboration, relationship management, and education. YoloCares (formerly Yolo Hospice) is Joint Commission accredited and the only organization in the Sacramento region to be accepted into the esteemed National Partnership for Hospice Innovation.
We are looking for full time dedicated, Case Manager - Registered Nurse to provide skilled nursing care.
Essential Job Functions & Responsibilities:

• Completes the nursing assessment of assigned patients. Maintains an ongoing assessment within hospice guidelines to determine if patient fulfills hospice criteria.
• Collaborates with other core disciplines (medicine, social work, and spiritual care counseling) in accordance with the Plan of Care to meet care goals.
• Coordinates provision of necessary medications, durable medical equipment, and disposable medical supplies. Ensures cost-effective and timely provision of the above.
• Knows and utilizes Universal Precautions in the provision of all direct patient care.
• Provides ongoing professional nursing care for each assigned patient. Regularly assesses and reevaluates patient nursing needs and related patient/family support needs. Reports findings to supervisor and updates problems and IDT as appropriate.
• As patient/ family needs or goals are assessed, and/or changing RN shall:

A. Communicate with the Attending Physician or designee regarding changes in condition and emergent patient needs; obtain and document necessary physician orders.
B. Assess and collaborate with supervisor on appropriate change in Level of Care for patients: Continuous Care, Respite Care, or General In-Patient Care, decertification /discharge from the Hospice Program.

• Provides instructions regarding medication, activity, diet, symptom management, safety, expected disease progression and the dying process when in accordance with the patient's Plan of Care with Attending Physician input.
• Ensures all patient documentation is complete, accurate, reflects nursing assessments, interventions and goals according to the individualized patient/family Plan of Care and YoloCares standards of care within 24 hours of patient visit.
• Completes or updates patient Plan of Care so problems, plans, actions, and goals are accurately and clearly stated and written in accordance with federal, state, and YoloCares standards. Medical orders are obtained, documented, and submitted promptly as Plan of Care amendments. Visit notes are written to clearly reflect interventions and goals.

Requirements
Job Qualifications:

• A current license in the State of California as a Registered Nurse.
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing in English is required. Spanish language skills are also encouraged.
• Two (2) years of recent clinical nursing experience is preferred. Experience in home care or hospice care is preferred.
• Must demonstrate strong clinical nursing skills, an understanding of, and commitment to, the general philosophy and goals of hospice care.

Pay range: $114,000-$124,800 Annually
YoloCares is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Salary Description

$114,000-$124,800