Telephone triage nurse vs triage nurse

Differences between telephone triage nurse and triage nurse 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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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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