Triage nurse vs clinic registered nurse

Differences between triage nurse and clinic registered nurse duties and responsibilities

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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Clinic registered nurse example responsibilities.

• Manage patient pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacological and non-pharmacological intervention, monitor patient response and record care plans accordingly.
• Perform both admissions and discharge of patients within the CICU as well as transferring patients to ICU or other units.
• Perform nursing functions in critical care units including ER, MICU, CCU, SICU in various hospitals and medical centers.
• Provide patient education that includes information about diagnosis, plan surgical procedures, post-surgical care, and physical rehabilitation procedures.
• Provide involved detail clinical evaluations of patients within the acute rehabilitation center along with needs for transition of care after discharge.
• Provide prenatal care education to ob triage patients to aide in fetal well-being.
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