Functional Office Nurse delivers health care and patient care management while providing high-quality customer service to patients and visitors. Skilled in obtaining and recording vital signs, performing blood draws, injections, rooming patients and assisting providers with patient care. Serves as nursing resource for clinical staff to support scheduling and competency oversight of clinicians.
Ensure provision of services to the residents and ensures that all Federal and State policies govering resident care are closley monitored and carried out.
Interview, hire, evaluate, motivate, and monitor the performance of care stff in the community.
Coordinate departmental schedule and ensure adequate staffing in accorance with company standards, polices, procedures , budgets and state law.
Act as manager and resuource person for the residents and their families.
Coversees continuing education programs for direct care staff in the community, as regulated by Federal and state licening requirments
Overseeing the daily activities of physicians’ practice. His/her job description involves managing office staff, maintaining financial records, and creating policies that will serve as a guide to the office.
It also entails placing orders for necessary supplies (in most cases, he/she negotiates with the medical supply vendors so as to help in managing the cost of supplies).
The practice manager makes sure that laws that guide health practice are adhered to at all times by regularly reviewing office policies and ensuring that all physician licenses are up to date and that the office meets all safety standards.
In some cases, his/her role may involve handling of complaints from patients, encouraging feedbacks from them, as well as overseeing their referral processes.
The practice manager is also responsible for the activities of office personnel. Part of his/her duties in this regard include supervising the recruitment process, carrying out training for newly recruited staff, and drawing up contracts of employment for staff.