About this role
Job title: Registered Nurse (RN) - Hybrid (Boston and Surrounding Areas)
About the Role Care Delivery RN collaborates with an interdisciplinary team to provide primary care, in-home specialty care, and care coordination to a panel of high-risk, complex patients, including individuals with medical, behavioral, and social complexities that require intensive care coordination and care delivery.
What You'll Do
- Delivers care to complex patients, providing care management and care coordination support, and collaborating with external providers to deliver comprehensive care.
- Conducts basic health assessments and provides direct and indirect nursing care within RN scope of practice and with signed provider's order as necessary.
- Escalates all pertinent clinical findings to assigned APC within specified timeframes.
- Conducts follow-up telephone calls with patients to ensure satisfaction.
- Assesses quality gap reports at each face-to-face visit; collaborates with care team and PCP to close identified gaps.
- Ensures timely medical post-hospital discharge with focus on hospitalization and utilization reduction.
- Documents all visits with clear, comprehensive, and concise charting while adhering to policies and procedures.
- Communicates clear loop closure to the interdisciplinary care team and plans for member-centric follow-ups as indicated.
- Identifies and initializes a plan to resolve areas of opportunity to meet KPIs.
- Proactively and collaboratively work with the patient's PCP and other external providers on key care management/care coordination decisions to ensure a cohesive medical treatment plan is delivered.
- Participates in interprofessional Care Team meetings, clinical committees, completes ongoing education and training, and provides consultation and support to other members of Care Team.
- Assists management with developing, refining and enhancing clinical programs, initiatives, processes, policies, workflows, and projects.
- Completes Health Plan assessments at scheduled and timely intervals and off-cycle as needed.
- Routinely and accurately completes the member-centric Care Plan and updates to PCP, Providers, and HP as required.
- Regular travel to conduct member, provider and community-based visits as needed to ensure effective administration of the program.
- Supports the procurement of DME, transportation, LTSS services and supports, and community supports as approved.
- Supports the procurement of network providers and assists in closing any gaps in service or care.
- Performs any other job related duties as requested.
What We're Looking For
- Education and Experience: Associate degree in nursing required; Bachelor’s degree in nursing preferred.
- Experience: Five (5) years as RN in a high-touch clinical environment or home care required; Two (2) years caring for patients/members with complex medical, behavioral health, and social needs required; Three (3) years experience in outreach or community care for patients with complex needs preferred.
- Licensure and Certifications: Current unrestricted Massachusetts RN license; Basic Life Support certification; valid driver’s license, vehicle and verifiable insurance.
- Skills: Experience with EMR strongly preferred; disability issues and Medicaid/Medicare programming/insurance products (ACO, MCO, PACE, SCO) preferred.
- Competencies and Abilities: Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to work with diverse groups; strong organizational, time management and problem-solving skills; ability to use EMR and telehealth technologies; bilingual or multilingual preferred.
- Travel: Ability to travel as required.
Nice to Have
- Bilingual or multilingual (preferred).
- Additional preferred experience with Medicaid/Medicare programs and telehealth tools.