Psychiatric nurse vs triage nurse

Differences between psychiatric nurse and triage nurse duties and responsibilities

Psychiatric nurse example responsibilities.

• Organize and manage regular clinics involving external physicians, including ophthalmology, ENT, Med/Surg, orthopedics, and podiatry professionals.
• Staff register nurse, acute medical rehabilitation unit.
• Perform emergency triage differentiating psychiatric versus medical conditions.
• Perform triage assessment, psychiatric evaluations, medication administration, psychotherapy and case management.
• Provide comprehensive medical-psychiatric care to patients via assessment, planning, evaluation and supervision of therapeutic interactions.
• Provide therapeutic communication and psychiatric rehabilitation with residents to assist with their recovery to return to the community.
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Triage nurse example responsibilities.

• Recognize and manage maternal complications: hemorrhage, preeclampsia, endometritis.
• Provide outpatient chemotherapy administration, patient education and telephone triage of patients undergoing cancer treatment.
• Follow up on denials and appeals.
• Experience in initiating prior authorizations, denials, and appeals.
• Perform EKG's, labs, vision screening, hearing tests, pulmonary function tests.
• Handle all heavy phone scheduling which include visits, blood work, diagnostic testing and cardiac rehabilitation.
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