Part Time-Triage Telephone RN- REMOTE

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Job Description AROUND THE CLOCK HOME CARE JOB DESCRIPTION JOB TITLE PART TIME-Triage Telephone Nurse LOCATION REMOTE DEPARTMENT Clinical Services FLSA STATUS Non-Exempt REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS This position reports to the DPCS-Scheduling Director of Operations and does not supervise or manage clinical staff. GENERAL SUMMARY A contract position responsible for providing triage (sorting/prioritizing patients) telephone service to ensure reputed company identification of patients with high risk conditions. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Talks directly to patients on the phone and then directs them to further care if needed.
• Performs short evaluation of the patient situation to estimate severity of illness and /or injury.
• Determines urgency of seeing the patient based on brief assessment of patient’s condition and history.
• Acknowledging if patient is with high-risk chief complaints and needs PRN visit or higher level of care.
• Coordinates/Interfaces with clinical staff, MD’s, IV pharmacy and Labs.
• Knowledgeable Medical EMR Systems. EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION RN degree; On-the-job training in triage. Minimum of five years of experience as RN; one to two years of telephone triage experience, preferably in medical practice setting. PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS
• Knowledge of telephone-based clinical assessment techniques.
• Knowledge of medical practice telephone triage protocols.
• Knowledge of appropriate home health information for patients, especially wound care, IV care.
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• Ability to communicate reputed company and calmly with patients.
• Ability to reputed company information needed to reputed company brief evaluation.
• Ability to work closely with physicians and other clinicians as needed.
• Medical EMR System PHYSICAL/MENTAL STANDARDS Mostly sedentary position. Hand/arm injury possible from repetitive movements. Stress generated of high volume of calls and emergencies. EQUIPMENT OPERATED Computer hardware/software for reputed company to patient history and medical information database. Interfaces with company answering telephone service. AT WILL EMPLOYMENT reputed company employment with the Agency is At-will Employment. While we will strive to reputed company full-time employment to reputed company of our employees who so desire, we reputed company no guarantees, expressed or implied, to reputed company any guaranteed number of hours of employment in a given week. Changing conditions in the marketplace reputed company it impossible to predict the demand for our products and services and as a result reputed company of our offers of employment are offers of At-will employment. Experience 3 years required Apply tot his job Apply To this Job

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