Outpatient services director vs nurse manager

Differences between outpatient services director and nurse manager duties and responsibilities

Outpatient services director example responsibilities.

• Manage the departmental budget by adjusting therapist schedules to more efficiently schedule patients.
• Manage projects and ambulatory system initiatives, and collaborate with system leadership teams to ensure EMR alignment with all regulatory requirements.
• Receive no recommendations during JCAHO survey.
• Coordinate staff of 105-plus FTE's.
• Direct JCAHO accredit intensive out patient eating disorder treatment program.
• Provide individual, family, and group therapies to partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient patients.
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Nurse manager example responsibilities.

• Case manage workers compensation cases, administer drug testing, surveillance testing, minor 1st aid and CPR instruction.
• Assess and manage various allergic and life threatening reactions of chemotherapy medications.
• Manage staff of medical personnel providing care for telemetry, geriatric and general medicine patients.
• Involve in utilization review and chart audits for all appropriate documentation for medicaid, Medicare and manage care organizations.
• Manage surgical recovery patients including vascular, ENT, GI urological and neurological cases, coronary bypass surgery patients.
• Maintain current ACLS and BLS certifications.
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