Nurse case manager vs staff nurse

Differences between nurse case manager and staff nurse duties and responsibilities

Nurse case manager example responsibilities.

• Develop and manage plan of care for symptom management for patients/families in home, ALF, and SNF arena.
• Maintain communication with commercial insurance payers, manage Medicare and Medicaid sources and conduct daily clinical updates to insurance companies.
• Coordinate surgery schedules with doctor, hospital, medical equipment representative and patients.
• General assessment and care/case management of Medicare patients including wind care, diabetes, cardiac complications, respiratory treatments.
• Deliver independent private duty nursing to pediatric patients in need of holistic care, including oxygen-dependent, ventilator-dependent, tracheostomy patients.
• Interview and assess patients, documenting findings and input into EMR system.
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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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