Katie Kowals

Kowals

• Review and triage all lab results from Urgent Care, Primary Care, and Virtual Care.
• Review and triage all medical-related questions from patients, pre and post-visit.
• Assist with prescriptions, as needed.
• Act as liaison between clinic staff and lab partners (LabCorp, Quest, Bioreference, FlowHealth) to ensure all tests are run appropriately.
• Provide Virtual Mental Health crisis referral assistance.
• Submit CMR (Confidential Morbidity Report) to appropriate health department for all reportable diseases.
• Collaborate on team projects in a progressive Start-Up setting.
• Creation of medical scripting and product design for EHR

• Triage and treat high-volume caseload in busy emergency room setting.
• Determine patient injury and illness quickly.
• Coordinate care with physicians and other clinical staff to prepare for treatment, carry out interventions and enhance continuum of care.
• Conduct patient assessments and diagnostic tests to provide physician with important patient health information.
• Uphold patient safety standards.
• Work as preceptor to new RN graduates.
• Work side by side with management, physicians and team members to create innovative new approaches to ER throughput.

• Collaborated with staff members to facilitate quality care.
• Monitored patient status and reported update to senior medical staff.
• Built rapport with patients' family members and support system.
• Rendered hands-on nursing care under direct RN supervision, adhering to medical center policies and procedures.