ARN Southeast Texas Chapter

Elaine Dworaczyk, BSN, RN, CCM

Current Employment:	Avidyn Health Inc.
Position:	Nurse Case Manager
Description of Responsibilities:
Primary responsibilities include providing the highest quality of effective, proactive, and professional services to members and clients in all aspects of Case Management. Case Managers serve as a point of contact for providers caring for patients who have entered the Avidyn Health Case Management program. Enabling and supporting responsibilities include all activities associated with identifying potential appropriate chronic and catastrophic cases requiring Case Management, communicating with and obtaining approval of client/administrator and patient/family, performing all functions associated with Case Management (including but not limited to arranging appropriate alternative care settings, coordinating with the hospital discharge planning, negotiating discounts and cost effective/high quality services with vendors), reporting activities and case summaries to clients, and following and recording billing for professional services rendered.
ARN Member Since:	1992
SETX Chapter ARN Member since:	1992
SETX Chapter ARN Involvement:	Program Committee Chair for 2 years – to assure CE programs for each monthly meeting and coordinate with meeting host facility.
Why did you decide to join SETX ARN?
Professional development, obtaining CE hours and networking.
Awards Received:
Elaine writes, “The most important reward I receive is when one of my patients or family members expresses appreciation for my case management interventions. Any other awards are just pieces of paper tucked away in my miscellaneous file.”
Community Involvement:	“None really. My family is the most important to me.”
Exceptional Accomplishment:
“When Rose or Jessica, granddaughters who are 3 and 2 years old, spontaneously tell me, “… I love you.” That is what life is all about.”
Hobbies, Special Interests:
“I love to make quilts and hand-quilt them just for fun, even if it does take a few years to complete. It is a very creative experience and process. I have yet to make a quilt that ends as it began. I think this is a reflection of how I feel about life. It is ever changing and you must be able to change to survive and find happiness.”
Previous Experience:
Elaine has previous experience in ICU, CCU, ER, Director of an LVN school for over 8 years, and psychiatric nursing for long-term young adult schizophrenics with a mean age of 20.
What does Rehabilitation Nursing mean to you?
“It is quite simple. Helping others to obtain their highest potential in all areas of their life.”
Anything else that you would like to share?
I love to discuss complex case management cases and attempt to find solutions to what seems to be overwhelming issues. Call me, I always have an opinion.

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