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Provides professional nursing care for office patients following established standards and procedures.
Supervises children ages two (2) months to 14 years.
Acts as collaborative member of the clinical team in providing continuity of and quality patient care. Initiates patient care, gathers vital signs, prepares patient and exam room for procedures, and collects specimens. Provides patient education and support as needed to assist physician, patient and family. Assists coworkers and draws blood as needed.
The Patient Care Aide (PCA) works under the direction of the RN/LPN. The responsibilities of the Patient Care Aide include providing direct patient care and maintaining patient care standards. The Patient Care Aide must exhibit the ability to work with people from diverse socio-economic backgrounds; to organize, set priorities and manage multiple priorities, and to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
Job Summary
Acts as collaborative member of the clinic team in providing continuity of and quality patient care. Responsible for the day to day operations of a multiple physician clinic, to include the effective management of clinical systems, human resources, financial and environmental management. Promotes collaborative practice with other departments, providers and clinics, always exhibiting the ability to work with others to find solutions to difficult human, technical or administrative problems.
Acts as collaborative member of the clinical team in providing continuity of and quality patient care. Initiates patient care, gathers vital signs, prepares patient and exam room for procedures, and collects specimens. Provides patient education and support as needed to assist physician, patient and family. Assists coworkers and draws blood as needed.
Acts as collaborative member of the clinical team in providing continuity of and quality patient care. Initiates patient care, gathers vital signs, prepares patient and exam room for procedures, and collects specimens. Provides patient education and support as needed to assist physician, patient and family. Returns patient phone calls.
Provides professional nursing care for office patients following established standards and procedures.
Pediatric speech therapist position working with a dynamic multidisciplinary team, in outpatient and inpatient settings. With experience, opportunities may be available in specialty areas, including NICU. Seeking a team-player with excellent communication skills, strong evidence-based practice, caring attitude towards all patients and their families, and effective time management / organization skills.
Responsibilities of the pediatric speech therapist include:
- Evaluations, re-evaluations and ongoing direct patient care with children from birth to 18 years
- Management of a highly diverse caseload including treatment of language, articulation, cognitive, feeding and swallowing disorders
- Coordination of care with other providers
Kids Care, our region's pediatric and neonatal transport team, consists of highly trained RN's and RT's that specialize in transporting critical neonatal and pediatric patients. This position represents patient care directed toward the stabilization and safe transport of critical pediatric/neonatal patients to Huntsville Hospital Women and Children’s. Patient care is also given in clinical areas throughout the hospital such as the Pediatric ICU or Neonatal ICU.
AICU is an 8-bed Medical/Surgical Adult ICU at the Huntsville Hospital for Women/Children campus. Orientation consists of working with an experienced staff and length of orientation is typically 6-12 weeks depending on experience. AICU is the only adult critical care unit at the Women/Children campus. The AICU offers a challenging workflow for RN’s. AICU receives a variety of patients that includes primarily critical Medical patients, but also Antepartum, Postpartum, GYN Oncology, GYN, ENT, and any adult patient at WC that requires intensive monitoring. The RN’s in AICU are trained to care for a variety of critical situations including hemorrhage, critical OB, CRRT, ventilators, and titrating drips. We have 4-beds wired for fetal monitoring that is monitored by an L&D RN on our campus for our critical Antepartum patient. AICU RN’s are responsible for all Rapid Responses and Code Blue situations for the adult patient population at WC. The staff in AICU works closely with health care providers to provide excellent care and compassion to our customers. Our staff has the opportunity to participate in Shared Governance, Clinical Ladder programs, and CEU offerings available online & at Corporate University.
The Clinical Charge Nurse identifies patient needs and priorities for care through assessment, planning and delegating care based on patient needs. Executes therapeutic physician orders and therapeutic nursing interventions. Evaluates the patient's response to care and the attainment of or progress towards patient outcomes. Coordinates care between other professional disciplines as needed. Helps patients and/or staff identify problems and explores with them the alternative choices and outcomes.
The Pre-Certification Representative is responsible for obtaining approval from insurance companies for services that require referral, pre-certification or prior authorization. All job functions are performed in a manner that promotes the highest level of compliance with various legal, regulatory and accreditation requirements while maintaining all protected health information in manner that complies with HIPAA requirements.
The Registered Nurse (RN) organizes and coordinates delivery of nursing care to groups of patients in compliance with hospital and departmental policies, protocols and procedures. He/she provides direct patient care by monitoring physiological and behavioral status, evaluating patient progress and the effectiveness of interventions, and by performing treatments and procedures. He/she recognizes, reports and documents clinical observations. The Registered Nurse participates in orientation, training and management of personnel.
Maintains established standards of care, policies, objective, and goals in administering professional nursing care to all patients. The RN identifies patient needs and priorities for care through assessment. The RN plans and delegates care based on patient needs. The RN evaluates the patient’s response to care and the attainment of or progress toward expected outcomes. The RN is accountable for outcomes of patient care delivered during the assigned shift.
Performs repetitive and basic therapeutic procedures consistent with the duties of a Patient Care Aide. Supports team members by assisting as needed to assure optimal patient care. Assists with duties (within scope of limitations) in lab rooms when needed.
Performs a variety of patient care activities to assist physicians and nursing personnel.
The Resource RN remains in good standing with Huntsville Hospital in accordance to set standards of maintaining an overall above average score on annual evaluations. Ability to teach and instruct as well as actively performs scrub techniques appropriate for various procedures. Monitoring skills require multi level documentation, recognition, interpretation with knowledge to treat patient accordingly. Proficient in operation and troubleshooting computer. Supports team members before, during, and following procedures to assure optimal patient care. Serves as a resource to staff regarding hospital and departmental policies and procedures. Assists the department manager with clinical and supervisory aspects of the department as well as with annual competencies including but not limited to: 12 lead class and basic EKG class. Meets deadlines in collecting and reporting data. Registry may define responsibilities that are specific to each registry, but does not limit activities under direct physician supervision.
The Resource RN remains in good standing with Huntsville Hospital in accordance to set standards of maintaining an overall above average score on annual evaluations. Ability to teach and instruct as well as actively performs scrub techniques appropriate for various procedures. Monitoring skills require multi level documentation, recognition, interpretation with knowledge to treat patient accordingly. Proficient in operation and troubleshooting computer. Supports team members before, during, and following procedures to assure optimal patient care. Serves as a resource to staff regarding hospital and departmental policies and procedures. Assists the department manager with clinical and supervisory aspects of the department as well as with annual competencies including but not limited to: 12 lead class and basic EKG class. Meets deadlines in collecting and reporting data. Registry may define responsibilities that are specific to each registry, but does not limit activities under direct physician supervision.
Responsible and accountable for the management and operational oversight of the following departments; Scheduling, Preregistration and Precertification which encompasses approximately 48 FTE(s).
Develops/implements policies and procedures that guide and support service, assesses and improves department performance and ensures orientation and continuing education of departmental staff. As the leader, this person may recommend resourced/space needed by the department and may participate in the selection of outside services.
Successful management is critical to enhancing timely scheduling, preauthorization and preregistration prior to the patients’ arrival. Securing accounts financially to reduce denials and streamline payments.
Works directly with department leadership, Information Technology and executive leadership to identify areas of improvement and successfully develop metrics to track progress and identify opportunities for improvement.
The Director will will assure hospital compliance with Advanced Beneficiary Notification (ABN), Medicare as a Secondary Payer (MSP), Advanced Directives, Patient Bill of Rights, and Medical Necessity.