Health care assistant vs health care coordinator

Differences between health care assistant and health care coordinator duties and responsibilities

Health care assistant example responsibilities.

• Monitor / enforce OSHA standards and coordinate / lead daily, weekly, and monthly safety meetings to educate staff.
• Manage ventilator settings, suction tracheostomy, tube-feeding assistance.
• Facilitate physical therapy exercises, positional rotation, monitor medication compliance and effects, provide companionship, carry out ADL's.
• care professional, extremely competent, providing guidance and counseling for rehabilitation of mentally disturb patients.
• Process consults requests for electrophysiology, EKG and other services.
• Assist train staff in the event of cardiac arrest and actively participate in CPR.
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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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