Nurse case manager vs traveling nurse

Differences between nurse case manager and traveling 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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Traveling nurse example responsibilities.

• Manage critically ill patient as a result of trauma, including vent management, ICP monitoring, and CRRT.
• Manage and further help stabilize elective and/or urgent surgical patient in their post-operative, post PACU admission to the floor.
• Manage bedside care per MD orders, administering medications, ensuring patient safety, assisting in ADL care, etc.
• Monitor chemotherapy and administration of oral chemo medication, obtain laboratory specimens to manage client status via central lines.
• Travel nurse who provide care to patients in SICU, MICU, CCU, and CVICU.
• Work in both MICU and SICU
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