Registered Nurse Case Manager

Registered Nurse Case Manager

Admissions & Care Transitions

Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs

2132 NE 36th St, Oklahoma City, OK 73111

Annual Salary:
Commensurate with experience and qualifications

The ODVA RN Case Manager is a senior clinical role that elevates, supports and strengthens the admissions and care transition processes across ODVA’s State Veterans Homes. This position partners closely with Admissions Coordinators, facility leadership, and interdisciplinary teams to standardize outreach, improve candidate and resident selection, and ensure safe, timely, and appropriate placement of Veterans.

A core focus of this role is to improve the efficiency of reviewing, accommodating, and admitting Veterans with pending or incomplete applications by streamlining clinical review, accelerating decision-making, and reducing avoidable delays to admission. This position directly impacts access to care, mission fulfillment, and Veteran experience.

This role works in close collaboration with Central Office and facility leadership to advance ODVA’s strategic pillars of Outcomes, Ownership, Oversight, and Urgency.

• Provide clinical case management support for admissions, transfers, and complex placement decisions.
• Standardize and reduce delay in admission review processes, by prioritizing timely review of pending applications.
• Expedite admission decisions and remove placement barriers.
• Facilitate interdisciplinary care coordination.
• Monitor admission timelines and identify bottlenecks.
• Ensure compliant documentation practices within the pre-admission and admissions process.
• Participate in re-hospitalization and delayed admission reduction initiatives.
• Maintain tracking tools and prepare leadership reports.
• Support survey readiness related to care transitions.

Outcomes
:
Improve admission timeliness, placement success, and access to care.
Ownership
:
Ensure accountability for reducing pending backlogs.
Oversight
:
Monitor and report admission performance trends.
Urgency
:
Act decisively to prevent delays in access to care.

• Active Oklahoma RN license.
• Target BSN; MSN preferred.
• Five years progressive nursing experience.
• Long‑term care and admissions experience preferred.
• Strong verbal and written communication, organization, and time management skills.
• EMR proficiency;
  Point Click Care  experience preferred.

This position has been designated as exempt from the civil service rules established by the Civil Service and Human Capital Modernization.

The State of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of genetic information, race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or disability.