RN Case Manager - Emergency Department (SMH)
Santa Monica, CAJob$68.81–88.99/hrSeen 3w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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Job overview
The RN Case Manager assesses and coordinates care for a diverse patient group, collaborating with multidisciplinary healthcare teams, patients, and families. The role develops individualized care plans using evidence-based risk-stratification tools, performs utilization review, assures concurrent and post-hospital care, and contributes to performance improvement efforts. Emergency Department case management experience is preferred.
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Description
There's nothing more exciting and rewarding than being able to make a significant, positive difference in someone's life. At UCLA Health, you'll experience this joy every day while also enjoying the positive, supportive, and collaborative environment that makes ours one of the most loved workplaces. Join us and find out for yourself.
Using your advanced practice nursing skills, you will be responsible for assessing and coordinating care for a diverse group of patients. You will collaborate and consult with a multi-disciplinary health care team as well as with patients and their families to ensure safe and effective coordination of care. This involves developing and implementing individualized care plans utilizing evidence-based tools for risk stratification to ensure delivery of safe, high quality, efficient, and cost-effective care. You will also perform utilization review while assuring the delivery of concurrent and post-hospital care. We're also looking to you to help drive performance improvement efforts.
At UCLA Health, our passion for delivering the highest quality patient care has enabled us to become a world-renowned health system with four award-winning hospitals and more than 270 community clinics throughout Southern California. We're also home to the world-class medical research and clinical education capabilities of the David Geffen School of Medicine. If you're looking to experience greater challenge and fulfillment in your career, come to UCLA Health.
Salary Range: $68.81 - $88.99 Hourly
Qualifications
We're seeking a self-directed, creative problem solver with a:
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BSN or MSN (ASN accepted for current UCLA Health Nursing staff)
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CA RN License and BLS certification
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Recent experience in case management, utilization management and discharge planning
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Minimum of three years of acute hospital experience; or the equivalent of education and experience
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Strong leadership abilities
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Systems planning and patient care management experience in a high-volume work environment
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Excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational and analytical skills
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Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams
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Knowledge of a large university teaching hospitals
Emergency Department case management experience preferred.
UCLA Health welcomes all individuals, without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin or disabilities, and we proudly look to each person’s unique achievements and experiences to further set us apart.
How this job compares
Set against the 29,274 open Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$68.81–88.99/hr
- California median$54–75/hr891 hourly ranges
- US median$34–45/hr12,994 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $78.90/hr, is 26% above the California median midpoint ($63/hr) — in the middle half of Nurse hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,324 open Nurse jobs in California and 29,274 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Sutter Health261 open
- Kaiser Permanente196 open
- Dignity Health65 open
- Experience
- Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (12,111 postings).
- Education
- 3,185 of the 29,274 open Nurse jobs (11%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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