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Clinical Manager at an outpatient facility, responsibilities are recruitment, scheduling, monthly QAI reports, network reports, ensuring compliance with state and federal agencies, attending assigned meetings. Annual compliance training staff completion. Interaction with HR and other management personnel at the company. Patient intake monitoring of staffing some financials.

Manage a 120 outpatient dialysis unit with a 70 patient home therapy department. Responsible for 27 staff members and staffing, recruitment, scheduling, clinical. Monthly QAI reports gathering all information and presenting the information to upper management and medical director. Maintaining state and federal compliance with medical record audits and supervisory clinic audits to maintain unit compliance. Responsible for staff meetings and maintaining staff licensing as needed. Responsible for certain yearly compliance training for staff. Manage licensing for MD and staff. Responsible for licensing for state making sure the unit has the necessary up to date licensure. General quality care and general maintenance of the facility.

Nurse educator, educate patients, family, MD office staff on medication necessary for family members. Teaching on how to give the injections using various injection apparatus as ordered. Directions on side effects of medication, instructions to follow prior to administration and after. Document on training. Continuing education and training as required. Evaluating effectiveness of training and repeat training as needed. Note for adverse events and report as necessary. Instructing and informing family, patients, and MD office staff on the various medications and any untoward signs and symptoms and reporting them immediately.

Nurse educator, educate patients, family, MD office staff on medication necessary for family members. Teaching on how to give the injections using various injection apparatus as ordered. Directions on side effects of medication, instructions to follow prior to administration and after. Document on training. Continuing education and training as required. Evaluating effectiveness of training and repeat training as needed. Note for adverse events and report as necessary. Instructing and informing family, patients, and MD office staff on the various medications and any untoward signs and symptoms and reporting them immediately.

Patient teaching to the patients seen in the practice. Instruction given to patients on diet for Carry out special procedures and other testing which may be warranted. Taking the vital signs and drawing lab work on tests ordered in the office. Answer calls that come to the clinic and provide the necessary instruction that the patient is looking for. Refer vital and important information or patient concerns to the appropriate physician. Resource person for the patients of the five doctors that I am assigned to work with. Obtain pre cert. for medications ordered. Able to multitask with answering the clinic line and the voicemail attached, the voicemail for the Doctor's line and calling the patients to notify them of the lab results and the doctor's recommendations. Call in refills and new medication to the assigned pharmacies.

Work with contracted Hospitalist group at Temple University Hospital. Assigned to three to four Hospitalists daily and are responsible for primary care physician verification. Obtain necessary lab and diagnostic testing and relay the information /results to the Hospitalist. attend quality improvement meetings. Chart reviews of Hospitalists' patients. Receive and give daily report to and from the assigned Hospitalists.

Contracted R.N. assigned to Temple University Hospital as a relief nurse on their Transitional Care Unit/Emergency Room overflow. Execute direct patient care to a variety of admissions ranging from heart disease patients, respiratory, neurology and other acutely ill patients.

A contracted position with the federal government in their various units in the Philadelphia area. Performed health screenings, pre-employment physicals and annual physicals to government employees. Provided Flu outreach programs to federal employees during the flu vaccine season. Respond to emergencies within the federal buildings. ~Was recognized for outstanding care by Linda Springer, National Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), joined with Mark Delowery and Karen Kuroda at the health unit on February 27, 2007.

Contracted position for the state correctional institute providing care for inmates within the system. Provided direct patient care of acutely ill inmates. Performed advanced skills caring for hemoports and PICC lines. Attended quality care meetings monthly and conducted monthly staff meetings. Executed performance appraisals on the staff. Helped formulate policies and procedures necessary for care within the standards set by OSHA and

Provided direct patient care of chronic hemodialysis patients in a freestanding facility. Weekly monitoring and management of anemia. Make sure other staff adheres to policy procedures that are implemented by the company. Make corrections as necessary in a professional manner. Participate in monthly quality care meetings. Participate in patient care meetings. Help institute new policies and provide preceptor training to new staff.

Out in the community in the Philadelphia area, educated physicians and their office staff on billing reimbursements for Medicare patients in their practice for home care certification/ recertification. After education is provided, follow up with additional education and training as needed is provided. Went out into senior care residences and provided blood pressure and blood glucose check clinics. During these approved clinics, I would identify residents who may benefit from home care services and contact their primary care physicians and identify their needs. Provided home care coordination at the Medical College Hospital Tenet Health Systems. Provided home care for patients identified by the case managers and assisted with discharge planning of other patients identified by the case managers.

Responsible for direct patient care of infants to teenage children with mental and/or physical disabilities that are at home with family and require nursing care outside of a hospital setting. Provide health teaching to parents regarding care of the child. Care of children with advance needs, ventilators, tracheotomies and feeding tubes.

Instructed the dialysis technician student training program which was designed to provide the necessary didactic training in theoretical and clinical areas of dialysis so the student on completion of the program could acquire an entry-level position in the field of dialysis.

Provided relief staffing in an outpatient hemodialysis unit. Worked when needed initiating hemodialysis treatments on assigned acute and chronic hemodialysis patients. Provided patient teaching to new acute patients. Provided treatments to patients in the intensive care units. Titrated pressure drips to maintain vital signs during the hemodialysis treatment.

Executed direct patient care of acute/chronic hemo and peritoneal dialysis patients. Responsible for patient billing and charges. Monitored supply counts and requisitioned supplies as needed. Attended quality assurance meetings monthly with the physicians and social work.

Responsible for direct patient care of acute and chronic hemodialysis patients in a hospital setting. Ordered the necessary supplies to keep the unit running. Reported to the Medical Director and Administrator. Met for weekly discharge planning meetings and quality assurance meetings.