Nurse epidemiologist vs registered nurse

Differences between nurse epidemiologist and registered nurse duties and responsibilities

Nurse epidemiologist example responsibilities.

• Participate in manage care activities to produce health change, specifically providing diabetes education and lifestyle counseling in chronic disease areas.
• Administer and monitor TB and anergy panel skin tests.
• Assess risk for tuberculosis and if skin test are warranted.
• Review and document infections by CDC NHSN criteria in a prescribe quality standards and within require timelines.
• Perform qualitative review and assessment of thousands of patient records for presence of nosocomial infection as defined by CDC.
• Complete documents for state fund Medicaid programs, admission into community nursing and group home facilities and other community resources available.
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Registered nurse example responsibilities.

• Manage patient care for individuals with multiple diagnoses including COPD, diabetes, stroke and cardiac issues.
• Organize and manage regular clinics involving external physicians, including ophthalmology, ENT, Med/Surg, orthopedics, and podiatry professionals.
• Manage surgical recovery patients including vascular, ENT, GI urological and neurological cases, coronary bypass surgery patients.
• Manage patient pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacological and non-pharmacological intervention, monitor patient response and record care plans accordingly.
• Provide care for cardiac patients in arrhythmia critical care unit, providing patient education and monitoring telemetry
• Re-Cover surgical patients immediately after heart and vascular surgery until transfer out of ICU.
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