Telephone triage nurse vs advanced registered nurse practitioner

Differences between telephone triage nurse and advanced registered nurse practitioner duties and responsibilities

Telephone triage nurse example responsibilities.

• Manage chronic medical condition (s) such as hypertension, diabetes, coronary artery disease, and renal insufficiency.
• Manage surgical recovery patients including vascular, ENT, GI urological and neurological cases, coronary bypass surgery patients.
• See patients of all ages, suturing, splinting, prescribing medications, ordering labs, radiology tests, doing referrals.
• Maintain patient charts and confidential files in accordance with HIPAA regulations.
• Educate patients on diabetes management, adjust medication regimes and interpret laboratory data.
• Provide telephone nursing assessment of injure workers and make treatment recommendations regarding appropriate level of care
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Advanced registered nurse practitioner example responsibilities.

• Manage patients requiring rehabilitation with multiple co-morbidity conditions.
• Provide continuous telemetry monitoring and managing multiple patients with multiple high-risk medical conditions, utilizing interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Coordinate medical care during inpatient drug and alcohol detoxification and rehabilitation.
• Care include physical examination, ordering appropriate labs/x-rays/medication, wind repair and forming an assessment/diagnosis to disposition the patients.
• Complete annual examinations including providing women s health examinations and preventative health care education to patients from diverse backgrounds.
• Facilitate communication between specialists in neurology, neurosurgery, radiation, oncology, medical oncology, facial plastics, and others.
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