RN Triage Nurse

Job description

About the Role The role of the Triage Nurse is to provide patients with medical instruction and professional education pertaining to urological issues . The triage nurse will work under the supervision of a licensed physician to give assistance in determining the urgency of care needed. The Triage Nurse position requires a highly organized individual who can safely manage more than one task at a time and move efficiently throughout varied responsibilities. The Triage Nurse must be able to work independently as well as interact as part of a team, consistently demonstrating respect and cons ideration to all callers phoning into the practice . What You’ll Be Doing: Reschedules, cancels and confirms patient appointments . Calls in prescriptions and authorizations for patients . Communicates accurate post-op instructions to the patients and/or their caregivers . Calls for x-ray results as we ll as schedules x-rays, CTs, ultrasounds , and scans; serves as a back-up to the testing scheduler . Determines urgency of medical i ssues and give instruction if familiar with patient’s condition and situation. Calls for authorizations on x-rays or instructs scheduler to do so. Verifies new patient...