Home care coordinator vs staff nurse

Differences between home care coordinator and staff nurse duties and responsibilities

Home care coordinator example responsibilities.

• Manage social media accounts such as Facebook and Instagram to generate new clientele with specials, hair transformations and tutorials.
• Manage caseload by providing care coordination to individuals with a primary intellectual/developmental disability diagnosis all of whom receive community-base waiver services.
• Verify daily duty logs for completion and accuracy according to HIPAA standards
• Maintain monthly home care reports and update client service records as needed in CMS.
• Assist in obtaining and processing physician orders and documents require according to CMS guidelines.
• Maintain medical records, file HMO/Medicare budget approvals in client records, follow HIPAA guidelines.
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Staff nurse example responsibilities.

• Manage and further help stabilize elective and urgent care surgical patients in their post-operative/post PACU admission to the floor.
• Accomplish extensive critical care course with EKG interpretation and yearly critical care medication exam.
• Manage patient pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacological and non-pharmacological intervention, monitor patient response and record care plans accordingly.
• Participate in discharge planning including teaching family members and patients wind care and medication administration process after discharge.
• Provide direct nursing care to patients in a variety of settings with an emphasis in critical care and PACU settings.
• Prepare patients for surgery and endoscopy procedures including initiating intravenous lines, physical assessments and administering medications.
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