Job Description
Responsibilities
Nursing at GW Hospital
Nurses at GWUH identify as essential partners with providers, ancillary, and support staff in an academic medical center, that is Defining Medicine.
Our professional RN staff seek best practice opportunities to enhance patient care through unit and system-based quality initiatives, evidenced based research and practice and interdisciplinary care.
Recently, GW Hospital embarked on the ANCC Magnet journey. Our nurse leaders and staff are laser focused on exceptional patient outcomes and are defining healthcare for the st century.
Nurses stay at GW Hospital because of :
- Professional development opportunities
- Teamwork
- Interdisciplinary Care
- Advances in academic medicine
Position Summary
The Case Manager is responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring and evaluation of the patient’s plan of care from admission to post-discharge.
The Case Manager utilizes clinical knowledge, critical thinking skills, and the principles of case management to coordinate and implement a discharge plan that meets the patient’s needs and ensures a seamless, effective and efficient transition of care across the continuum.
The Case Manager coordinates, negotiates, manages and implements the care of complex patients to facilitate achievement of quality and cost effective patient outcomes.
Works collaboratively with interdisciplinary staff internal and external to the organization. Participates in quality improvement and evaluation processes related to the management of care.
Qualifications
- Registered Nurse, BSN required
- Current licensure in the District of Columbia required
- 2-3 years of recent acute care experience
- Case Management Certification preferred
Skills
- Effective oral and written communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong organizational and problem solving skills
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Ability to adapt to multiple and changing priorities
RN Benefits, Special Incentives & Perks
- $, Sign on bonus
- $5, RN Referral Bonus
- $ monthly commuter subsidy full time
- Challenging and rewarding work environment with advanced technological systems, processes, and practice
- Commitment to Wellness sponsored by the Strategic Employee Engagement Council and GWU Wellness Center
- Commitment to Diversity sponsored by the Diversity & Inclusion Council
k) with company match up to 6%
- Excellent medical, dental, vision and prescription drug plan
- Shared Governance Model
- RN to BSN Scholarship at George Washington UniversityRNs from Montgomery County College or Northern Virginia (NOVA) with a 3.
0 are automatically admitted to GWU *(some restrictions apply)
- No Mandatory Overtime. Schedule your own shifts
- L.E.A.R.N. Clinical Nurse Advancement Program with monetary reward
- Significant opportunities to grow and develop through job-related training, continuing education, and mobility up and across UHS subsidiaries.
- Employee discounts and much more !!
The mission of GW Hospital is to provide the highest quality healthcare, advanced medical technology, and world-class service to its patients in an academic medical center dedicated to education and research.
About Universal Health Services
One of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc.
UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. Growing steadily since its inception into an esteemed Fortune corporation, annual revenues were $.
3 billion in 3. During the year, UHS was again recognized as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune; and listed in Forbes ranking of America’s Largest Public Companies.
Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has approximately , employees and continues to grow through its subsidiaries. Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.
S. States, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom.