NURSE CASE MANAGER (OPEN)

San Mateo Medical Center's Willow Clinic and Fair Oaks Family Health Center has 2 full-time Nurse Case Manager positions available in the Same Day Clinics. These are urgent care and primary care clinics serving the East Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Redwood City communities. The Nurse Case Manager is responsible for direct and indirect delivery of patient care for a varied patient population through the use of the nursing process and maintenance of the standards of professional nursing practice. The Nurse Case Manager promotes compliance and support of policies and procedures, knows their legal responsibilities and licensure requirements, participates in evaluation of quality assurance issues by identifying problems and proposing solutions; assists in assigned data gathering; participates in educational programs to maintain and develop nursing skills.

Duties may include, but are not limited to the following: Performs nursing care following prescribe rules, policies, protocol and procedures; establishes and implements immediate nursing care plans for each patient through assessment, development, activation and evaluation; formulates case management plans to appropriately address patient care needs based on order forms, and consultation with physicians, professional/paraprofessional nursing staff, patients, families and caregivers; optimizes patient health care outcomes by providing appropriate education, referral(s) and follow-up; organizes, assigns and supervises duties and responsibilities of other staff members as a team leader; participates in non-clinical assignments which may include maintaining records, data collection, preparing reports and/or serving on special committees; responsibilities for orienting and reaching new staff members of the nursing team and students; be able to triage and screen on site as well as phone triage; and perform related duties as assigned.

Experience and Education: Current CA RN license. Previous experience in Case Management and Triage Nursing is preferred.

Anyone may apply. This is a continuous recruitment which may close at any time. The final filing date will be posted 5 days in advance in the Employee and Public Services Department of the County. A supplemental application form must be submitted in addition to our regular employment application form. The examination will consist of a panel interview (weight: 100%). Depending on the number of applicants, an application appraisal of education and experience may be used in place of other examinations or a screening committee may select those applicants whose education and/or experience appear to best meet the needs of the position. Qualified applicants will be notified of the date, time and place of the tests. All applicants will be notified of the date, time and place of the tests. All examinations will be given in San Mateo County, California, and applicants must participate at their won expense. Apply immediately. This recruitment is open on a continuous basis and selections may be made at any time within the process.

Analyst: Bach Tran (100303)

(Nurse Case Manager - F016)