Clinical nursing coordinator vs health care coordinator

Differences between clinical nursing coordinator and health care coordinator duties and responsibilities

Clinical nursing coordinator example responsibilities.

• Manage team of medical support personnel, orient new clinical employees and develop new guidelines for chemotherapy administration.
• Demonstrate clinical competency and compassion in providing care, using technology, administering medications, performing procedures and managing emergencies
• Care include pre-operative teaching, postoperative follow-up care, liaison between patient, physician, hospital, home health and/or rehabilitation.
• Perform duties of staff nurse; assist in writing nursing care plans; carry out medical care plans; ACLS certify.
• Perform resuscitation procedures according to BLS and ACLS guidelines on life threatening conditions and cardiopulmonary arrest.
• Render professional nursing care to all telemetry patients including critical medical/surgical patients and chronic ventilator patients.
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Health care coordinator example responsibilities.

• Manage client accounts making sure they are up to date and within Medicare guidelines.
• Manage caseload by providing care coordination to individuals with a primary intellectual/developmental disability diagnosis all of whom receive community-base waiver services.
• Expand use of Medicare and Medicaid benefits for services not previously utilize including researching and contracting with outside vendors.
• Establish patient referral sources from business relationships and educate facility staff to identify patients that would benefit from home health services.
• Utilize CPR certification skills when need.
• Help assist residents with ADL's.
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