SUMMARY:
The COMPASS Nurse Care Manager works as part of an interdisciplinary team to coordinate care for HIV positive patients by addressing barriers to treatment adherence, viral load suppression and retention in care. The COMPASS Nurse Care Manager performs clinical nursing duties for HIV positive patients who present for medical visits, including triaging patients, getting vitals from patients, administering medications and performing bloodwork.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Meet with HIV positive patients when they present for medical visits
- Perform any relevant clinical nursing duties needed for patient care
- Screen patients for mental health and substance use treatment needs, refers for needed services
- Works closely with medical providers, nursing staff and other Institute employees to coordinate care for patients , through formal and informal case conferences, huddles , warm hand-offs and joint visits
- Provides individual and group based health promotion, treatment adherence counseling, risk reduction counseling and case management to assist patients in decreasing barriers to viral load suppression and retention in care
- Regularly review health maintenance topics and outreach patients as needed for compliance
- Complete Prior Authorizations to ensure timely access to needed medications
- Coordinate with pharmacies on behalf of patients
- Participate in initial assessment of service needs and service barriers; assists in developing a comprehensive individualized service plan; follows up with patient to ensure service plan implementation.
- Valid NYS nursing license; RN required
- Computer literacy with proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Demonstrated organizational, interpersonal, oral and written communication skills and the ability to handle multiple assignments at any time
- Ability to generate, interpret and analyze data from multiple sources
- Bi-lingual, Spanish preferred
As a member of the IFH community, we expect employees to: adhere to the organization’s policies regarding time, attendance, and dress code; demonstrate reliability and trustworthiness; manage time and resources to meet established goals/projects within the agreed upon time frames; demonstrate accountability; maintain patient/employee confidentiality; meet applicable regulatory and annual health assessment requirements; self- identify learning strengths and needs; demonstrate a professional, courteous, and respectful attitude in dealing with patients, families, significant others, members of the staff and extended community.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is frequently required to climb or balance and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
