RN-Disease Manager

Overview

Location: Nellis AFB

Pay: $60/hr

Schedule: Monday-Friday between the hours of 0700- 1800, dependent upon mission requirements: 8hour work days 5 days per week or 10-hour work days 4 days per week. To take a 30 min - 1 hour uncompensated lunch. The work hours are dependent upon the mission requirements.

Overage

Hours:

Overage hours for each labor category are as follows:
Will start with 5 OT and will notexceed 25 hours per FTE per year.

Benefits: Vested vacation, sick leave, holiday leave, Life, Accidental Death and Dismemberment, Short Term Disability

Optional Benefits:Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(K) matching with employee participation in 401(K) plan

• Knowledge of managed care principles, military and civilian population healthcare, case management, utilization management, and demand management functions is highly desired.
• In collaboration with medical and nursing peers, develops innovative, and/or unique treatment programs to best provide advanced level, specialized, and comprehensive professional nursing care to high- and low-risk patients with diseases/conditions across the healthcare continuum appropriate for disease management interventions.
• Prioritizes patients in the disease management program. Assesses and identifies individual patient care needs and provides the type and amount of care required to meet the individual needs of each patient, making independent nursing diagnoses, providing health care instructions and/or appropriate referral to a provider or other department.
• Performs proactive patient management and education. Supports the provider/patient relationshipand plan of care, emphasizes prevention of exacerbations and complications utilizing evidence based practice guidelines and patient empowerment strategies.
• Empowers and prepares patients to manage their health and become active participants to meettheir healthcare needs. Organizes internal and community resources to provide ongoing self management support to patients. Utilizes proven programs to provide health information, emotional support, and strategies for living with chronic illness. Collaborates with providers and patients to define problems, set priorities, establish goals, create treatment plans and implement solutions.
• Interprets and evaluates data appropriately in collaboration with Health Care Integrator and Group Practice Manager.
• Provides highly specialized, comprehensive primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention/intervention nursing services to active duty/reserve/retired military members and their families. Professional nursing care/treatment will include patients of all ages and may be conducted via clinic, office, telephone, and electronic contact. Provides advanced nursing services to patients across the population health continuum ranging from normal to those having complex complications requiring sophisticated, highly technical care and treatment.
• Assesses, plans, develops, coordinates, implements, and evaluates preventive and clinical services for all assigned beneficiaries, to include but not limited to:
  Taking health histories, evaluating annual and fitness health conditions which cause or exacerbate clinical disease, patient and family advocacy, role modeling, performing telehealth nursing, patient assessments and triage of diverse patient symptoms, health screening, acute, routine, wellness, emergency care, a variety of treatments and diagnostic procedures, and medication and immunization administrations.
• Ability to recognize adverse signs and symptoms and quickly react in emergency situations.
• Initiates and coordinates referrals to other healthcare providers, services, or agencies.
  
  Collaborates with military, base, community and civilian agencies, and TRICARE to ensure coordination of services and continuity of care.
• Makes necessary judgments to safely administer immunizations/medications based on knowledge of their effects on the physiological processes and current conditions of the patient. Administers medications and immunizations via multiple routes, as appropriate. Maintains continual awareness of unusual dosages of medications/immunizations and calls unusual dosages to the attention of…