Home care coordinator vs visiting nurse

Differences between home care coordinator and visiting 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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Visiting nurse example responsibilities.

• Provide care and manage gastrostomy, colostomy, and tracheostomy.
• Consult and teach HHA the best ways of achieving goals direct to improvement of functional status of patient and safety.
• Assist with obtaining proper DME and permanent services which permit patients to safely manage their medical treatment from their own home.
• Case management of Medicare and manage care patients, including coordination of services, obtaining insurance authorization, interdisciplinary communication.
• Complete CPI training to physically restrain patients.
• Assess clients for eligibility for preventive TB therapy and administer tuberculosis medication.
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