Clinical nursing coordinator vs mds coordinator

Differences between clinical nursing coordinator and mds 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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Mds coordinator example responsibilities.

• Manage timely completion of MDS assessments by other departments, appropriate CAA completion, scheduling of MDS.
• Close attention to ARD and coordination with rehab director to attain maximum reimbursement under PPS and follow OBRA guidelines.
• Manage and coordinate the workload of the release team members and are responsible for organizing and hosting all production release windows.
• Perform assessments of residents in facility per Medicaid/Medicare guidelines, data entry of assessments, transmit assessments to Medicaid and Medicare.
• Perform assessments using the MDS form for LTC and transmit those to the state for Medicare revenue and compliance.
• Charge nurse responsible for 50 SNF patients and supervise 60 staff members, providing formal and informal education for patient/family.
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