Krista N. Hunt
Asheboro,NC
Summary
Talented Case Manager adept at handling high caseloads without sacrificing quality of care. Operates in high-pressure environments while recommending best resources and courses of action to benefit patient needs and return each to optimal quality of life. Offers excellent problem-solving, conflict resolution and communication abilities.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Transplant Case Manager – Living Donor, Liver, TPAIT
UNC Chapel Hill
06.2018 - Current
- Initiate psychosocial assessment on potential transplant candidates to include liver, living donor, kidney, LVAD, heart and auto-islet cell
- Perform with comprehensive team to include Transplant Cardiology, Hepatology, Nephrology; Transplant Surgeons; Transplant Program Assistants; Transplant Psychology, Transplant Financial Coordinators, Transplant Nurse Coordinators, Transplant Physician Assistants, and Transplant Nurse Practitioners
- Participate with the intricate transplant team at Selection Committee
- Offer ongoing psychosocial support to the patient and family/caregiver(s) throughout the transplant process (pre/post); assess Social Determinants of Health
- Coordinate discharge needs to include placement, home health, infusion, DME, hospice.
Medical Social Worker
HonorHealth
03.2014 - 06.2018
- Complete psychosocial assessments on patients to determine needs and ensure safe discharge plans
- Coordinate patient needs with insurance and various providers to ensure coverage of services (i.e
- Home health, DME, infusion, feeding supplies)
- Work on multi-disciplinary team to include: physicians (Pediatricians, Neonatal), nurses, nurse practitioner, nutritionist, and child life specialist
- Served newborn to geriatric populations
- Selected to be co-captain of ACT Team to foster positive change within Case Management Department
- Selected to participate on high risk pregnancy team to assess needs of mother to be and/or newborn prior to delivery
- Current float to all campuses as Per Diem employee to serve as discharge case manager.
Lung and Kidney, Living Donor Transplant Social Worker
Dignity Health – St. Joseph Hospital and Medical Center
04.2015 - 03.2018
- Initiate psychosocial assessments on potential transplant recipients
- Provide support to transplant recipients and their caregiver to include: emotional and social, financial resources, support groups, and other specifics as identified
- Present transplant recipient case to Multi-Review Board and verbally advocate the strengths and contra indicators
- Work closely with multidisciplinary teams that include: Pulmonologists, Nephrology, Transplant and Thoracic surgeons, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Financial Coordinators, Pharmacists, Dietitian, and Psychiatry
- Collaborate with inpatient social work/case manager on transplant patient discharge needs
- Arrange outpatient needs such as DME, hone health, hospice, infusion etc to meet patient needs
- Facilitate support groups for pre and post patients and caregivers.
Child Protective Services Ongoing Supervisor
Arizona Department of Economic Security (Department of Child Safety)
02.2003 - 06.2014
- Manage unit of 10 ongoing case managers; approx
- 320 children
- Consult with case managers regarding court reports and recommendations
- Work efficiently to ensure case plan goals are being achieved and permanency is being established for children in foster care
- Ensure joint protocol is followed with criminal investigations
- Testify in various court proceedings regarding court wards of the state of Arizona
- Facilitated legal meetings between families and children to encourage open communication and exchange information to determine level of agency involvement
- Incorporate the Family to Family Initiatives to promote least restrictive outcomes for children and families that encounter the foster care system
- Mediate structured meetings that develop and build trust, respect and effective decision making outcomes with focusing on child(ren) safety
- Engage the community for support to the family and child(ren) and provide resources
- Conduct CPS investigations of sexual or physical abuse, neglect, or abandonment
- Work jointly with law enforcement agencies in determining criminal conduct allegations of child abuse and/or neglect
- Assist law enforcement in forensic interview process (photography, examination, video-taped interview)
- Apply policy and procedures to ensure alignment with Arizona Revised Statutes regarding crimes against children
- Collaborate with staff to verify policy and procedures are adhered to within DCYF
- Exercise sound decision making skills
- Successfully summarizes, documents, and communicates safety threshold criteria.
Education
Master of Social Work -
Arizona State University
Phoenix, AZ01.2011
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
Arizona State University
Phoenix, AZ01.2001
Skills
- Solid communication
- Thorough problem solving
- Effective evaluator and interviewer
- EPIC proficient
- Chronic disease management
- Highly organized
- Experienced team leader
- Assertive patient advocate
- Prioritization of demands
- Skilled multi-tasker
Organizations
- National Association of Social Work (NASW)
- Society of Transplant Social Work (STSW)
- Arizona State University School of Social Work Field Instructor
- University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Social Work Field Instructor
Certification
- LCSW - State of North Carolina
- CCTSW - Certified Clinical Transplant Social Worker
Timeline
Transplant Case Manager – Living Donor, Liver, TPAIT
UNC Chapel Hill
06.2018 - Current
Lung and Kidney, Living Donor Transplant Social Worker
Dignity Health – St. Joseph Hospital and Medical Center
04.2015 - 03.2018
Medical Social Worker
HonorHealth
03.2014 - 06.2018
Child Protective Services Ongoing Supervisor
Arizona Department of Economic Security (Department of Child Safety)
02.2003 - 06.2014
Master of Social Work -
Arizona State University
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
Arizona State University
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