SSM Health
RN Manager - Clinical Documentation Improvement
PayCompetitive
LocationRemote
Employment typeFull-Time
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Job Description
- Req#: R153771
- Manages the daily operations and resources of assigned Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) team, including the development and monitoring of strategic operating goals, objectives , and data analysis; and report operational performance, justification, and/or corrective action. Provides on-going support of CDI w ith extensive collaboration with physicians, nursing, coding, quality, and leadership.
- Facilitates improvements to clinical documentation through chart review and educational training sessions (with CDI Educator), which could be performed onsite, with physicians and/or other clinical professionals. Initiates corrective actions to resolve any problem areas identified between CDI and any other areas of the organization .
- Collaborates with CDI educator for regional education. Provide s ongoing c linical d ocumentation management program education for new staff , including new c linical d ocumentation r egistered n urses, physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals. Participates in the direction and education of all phases of the c linical d ocumentation process.
- Supports and implements technologies designed to improve and/or ensure the accurate depiction of clinical services, patient’s severity of illness, and risk of mortality.
- Conducts audits on CDI reviews against quality, coding, and mortality. Provide s feedback to staff and CDI educator and director. Report s monthly CDI metrics regarding KPIs and staff productivity. Strengthens technical coding practices and clinician documentation by reviewing patient records with flagged complications to ensure coding accurately reflects the patient’s clinical course and complexity to validate accurate risk-adjustment for administrative metrics used in government incentive/penalty programs.
- Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams including physicians, nurse practitioners, physicians assistants , and the department managers for r evenue i ntegrity, c oding and d ata q uality, c ase m anagement and h ealth i nformation m anagement. Demonstrate leadership and management skills to promote effective and efficient review of physician documentation and the medical record .
- Communicates with assigned regional/ministry p hysician leader s. Participate s in monthly m edical management meetings to report CDI metrics and act as subject matter expert for inquiries.
- Recruits, engages, develops, leads, and manages assigned staff.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Graduate of accredited school of nursing or education equivalency for licensing
- Two years' acute hospital experience or surgical area as a clinical nurse
- Three years' clinical documentation specialist
- Two years' demonstrated progressive leadership experience
- Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
- Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
- Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
- Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
- Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
- Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
- Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
- Rare climbing.
- Registered Professional Nurse (RN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
- Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
- Or
- Registered Nurse (RN) - Missouri Division of Professional Registration
- Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
- Or
- Registered Nurse (RN) - Oklahoma Board of Nursing (OBN)
- Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
- Or
- Registered Nurse (RN) - Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services
It's more than a career, it's a calling.
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RegularJob Summary:
Oversees and manages the daily operations and activities of the regional Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) program. Promotes consistent and standardized operations and documentation across the network. Builds and maintains productive inter/intra departmental and vendor work relationships to optimize operations.Job Responsibilities and Requirements:
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTSREQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS
State of Work Location: Illinois
State of Work Location: Missouri
State of Work Location: Oklahoma
State of Work Location: WisconsinWork Shift:
Day Shift (United States of America)EmployeeJob Type:
Department:
8746010033 Sys Clinical Documentation ImprovementScheduled Weekly Hours:
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About the company
SSM Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit United States health care system with 11,000 providers and nearly 39,000 employees in four states, including Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Illinois, and Missouri.