Are there any PDN managers here and what are your duties

[sparenurse]

I work as a manager of clinical practice for a PDN agency. I have about 25-30 clients. I am responsible for updating the POC-plan of care or 485, and Medicaid authorization. Besides this I handle complaints and questions by email or phone all day. I visit clients at their homes to update the POC every 60 days and Medicare every 6 months. I participate in fund raisers and skill fairs and orientation for new staff. I have been working here for a little over a year and put in 40-50 plus hours a week. Does anyone else have this workload, how do you deal with it all. I would appreciate any help in organizing my day.

[Elektra6, ASN, BSN, RN]

Well I am not a clinical manager but when I became an RN my manager now has me doing the 60 day assessments on my clients. Maybe see if you can delegate some work?

[meanmaryjean, DNP, RN]

Yeah, those 60 days are easily delegatable to RNs in the field. I used to do them all the time.

[brillohead, ADN, RN]

Try to spread out your clients so that the 60 day re-certs don't come due all at the same time of the month. My agency has to do monthly nursing assessments (car insurance vs Medicaid/health insurance), and some weeks are more bunched up than others.

[MemoryRevenge]

My agency has one RN at each home who is in charge of updating the 485 for each case. That RN typically handles communicating between providers, scheduling nurses, orienting new nurses to specific cases.

The manager at the office typically handles Medicaid authorization, complaints, questions.