Patient Care Co-ordinator Job in One Life Healthcare

Location: Chennai

Job Description:

Job Duties:

• Maintains nursing operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing program, operational, and personnel policies and procedures.
• Assures quality of care by developing and interpreting nursing standards of care; enforcing adherence to nurse practice requirements and to other organizational regulations; measuring health outcomes against care plans; making or recommending adjustments in care plans initiated..

Maintains nursing staff by providing appropriate on job guidance to nurses and auxiliary nursing staff (care assistants)

• Completes patient care requirements by assigning patient specific tasks and following up on work results.
• Maintains nursing staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.
• Establishes a compassionate environment by promoting emotional, psychological spiritual support to patients and family.
• Promotes patient s independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching and counseling patient and family and reinforcing their understanding of disease, medications, and self-care skills though deputed staff.
• Provides information to patients and health care team by answering questions and requests.
• Resolves patient needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by designing and implementing procedures, rules, and regulations; calling for assistance from other associated health care professionals.
• Protects patients and employees by developing and interpreting infection-control policies and protocols; enforcing medication administration, storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
• Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by monitoring confidential information processing.
• Maintains documentation of patient care services by auditing patient and department records.
• Ensures operation of medical and administrative equipment
• Ensures availability of nursing supplies at the patient care premises.
• Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem-solving methods, and patient care and progress review meetings.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed and collection of quality indicator and associated data.