Patient Care Manager - Registered Nurse (JB4217) - Wilgeheuwe at Kontak Recruitment

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing and Registered Nurse license.
• Minimum of three years in a nursing role, with previous experience in a Doctor's practice advantageous.
• Experience in an ICU environment is highly advantageous.
• Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) and familiarity with GoodX software preferred.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Medical management of all in and out-patients.
• Monitor, coordinate, and implement patient treatment plans (clinical assessment and clerking).
• Ensuring that treatment plans are executed by Hospital Nursing Staff (in-patients).
• Patient education and support on the diagnoses/ prognoses. Providing guidance and assistance on treatment plans, and regular check-ins with patients’ regarding health status and wellbeing.
• Post hospitalisation check-ins. Taking responsibility for directing patient care within the Practice.
• Management and identification of ‘red flags’ in the medical results (pathology, radiology, and any other diagnostic test results) of patients and notification to Doctor.
• Ensuring compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and industry standards related to patient care.
• Implementing and ensuring compliance with standards of nursing practice which promotes health care delivery.
• Identifying and responding promptly and appropriately to legal or risk management patient care issues.
• Supporting Doctor during all hospital ward rounds by capturing and scanning all patient notes (ward charts, clerking sheets, Dr notes).
• Responsible for daily liaison and provision of feedback on patient condition and progress to family member/s of the patient.
• Mitigation any risk(s) in terms of patient care satisfaction.
• Serve as a senior member of the team and act as a facilitator among administrative and clinical staff.
• Medical consumable stock management for nursing station as well as Dr examination room.
• Assisting Dr with administrative duties – medical insurance claim forms, chronic illness applications, letters of motivation, preparation of prescriptions, death certificate preparation.
• Management of infection control in the practice. Implementation of infection control protocols and safety standards in the practice.
• Staying up-to date with new medicine regimens and medicines released on the market.

Please do not apply using Scanned CVs, no supporting documentation is required at this point, this will be requested later.