Roles and Responsibilities: The Case Manager

Roles and Responsibilities—The Case Manager
The Case Manager completes a care assessment that details a client’s needs. It is the Case
Manager’s responsibility to:
• Identify the need for nurse delegation on the client’s care plan.
• Assist a client in finding a qualified nurse delegation provider.
• Make a referral to a contracted delegating RN or a provider that does nurse
delegation.
• Authorize payment for the delegating RN.
• Inform the delegating RN and/or caregiver of changes in the client’s condition.
For in-home settings, it is the Case Manager’s responsibility to:
• Refer a caregiver to the Training Partnership for Nurse Delegation training.
• Authorize payment to the caregiver for completing the Nurse Delegation for Nursing
Assistants and Home Care Aide training.
• Provide a voucher and facilitate an Individual Provider to get registered as a NA-R, if
needed.
• Arrange for skilled nursing tasks to be done until the Nursing Assistant/Home Care
Aide has been trained and meets the requirements to perform a delegated task