Chronic disease manager vs nurse manager

Differences between chronic disease manager and nurse manager duties and responsibilities

Chronic disease manager example responsibilities.

• Manage chronic diseases including diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hypothyroidism, hyperlipidemia, etc.
• Empower and educate patients to promote dietary and medication compliance, improving health and decreasing exacerbation of illness and hospitalizations.
• Provide telephonic nursing education to patients with heart failure including medications, activity, disease progression, physician appointments and procedures.
• Serve as principal investigator of the CDC coordinate chronic disease grant.
• Submit abstract information from medical records to Georgia Medicaid for decision.
• Participate in the use of quality indicators such as predictive modeling and inter-rater reliability and assist in URAC accreditation standards.
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Nurse manager example responsibilities.

• Case manage workers compensation cases, administer drug testing, surveillance testing, minor 1st aid and CPR instruction.
• Assess and manage various allergic and life threatening reactions of chemotherapy medications.
• Manage staff of medical personnel providing care for telemetry, geriatric and general medicine patients.
• Involve in utilization review and chart audits for all appropriate documentation for medicaid, Medicare and manage care organizations.
• Manage surgical recovery patients including vascular, ENT, GI urological and neurological cases, coronary bypass surgery patients.
• Maintain current ACLS and BLS certifications.
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