Location: Kintegra Health- Corporate Gastonia
Position: Transitional Care Nurse
Summary of Position: The Transitional Care Nurse primary responsibilities include providing outreach to patients discharging from a higher level of care to home to ensure safe transition. They are also responsible for coordination of care, and providing linkage to internal resources and community services. This role will be focused on chronic care management, transition of care, coordination of care, and quality metrics. The Transitional Care Nurse will be expected to communicate and work in collaboration with our Chronic Care Management team, interdisciplinary team members within the organization and external community partners and contractual partners.
Required Skills: Excellent verbal communication skills. Must be able to work with changing priorities. Requires excellent organizational, problem solving and critical thinking skills. Must be able to interact with individuals of all cultures and levels of authority. Requires the ability to maintain confidentiality. Must be able to function as part of a team.
Preferred Skills: Motivational interviewing, knowledge of chronic diseases, ability to reconcile medications, and assessment of patients for priority outreach.
Education: LPN or RN with an unrestricted license to practice nursing in NC
Experience: Ambulatory or acute care setting, home health, or public health.
Certification(s): BLS/CPR
Kintegra Health is a is a community sponsored, family-centered provider of health care, health education and preventive care services without regard to the ability to pay. We screen potential employees to first ensure alignment with our core requirements followed by the requisite position skills set. In doing so we need staff committed to this mission who do their best to live and work the characteristics of our core values as we strive to care forever-increasing members of the communities we serve.
Our goals are:
To provide continuing comprehensive and accessible primary care services to individuals and families of all economic levels within Gaston County.
To provide primary care services to meet the physical as well as social health needs of individuals and families, promoting health maintenance, providing timely diagnostics, treatment and referral services.
To emphasize preventive care through patient and community education to help individuals become aware and responsible for their own health behaviors.
To employ an interdisciplinary team approach in collaboration with other community providers to provide a continuum of appropriate patient/family-oriented care in a cost-effective manner