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Involves providing support in a variety of forms, to help children minimize the anxiety of health challenges and / or hospitalization, increase understanding and coping skills, and continue their typical growth and development. Includes the promotion of effective coping through play, self-expression activities, creative art and music therapies and age-appropriate medical preparation and education. Partners with providers, nurses, social workers and others to meet the unique emotional, developmental and cultural needs of each child and family.
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Involves program development, planning and implementation of international and domestic patient referral programs and outreach. Involves donor development, marketing and referral relationship management, excellence in customer service, and streamlining access to clinical services and fundraising.
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Involves the design and delivery of clinician (primarily nursing), professional / leadership development programs, policies, activities, assessment tools, and systems. Promotes excellence in patient care, through skill acquisition in evidence based nursing practice and clinical inquiry. Collaborates with nursing leadership to tailor programs and resources based on needs assessments. Meets the diverse requirements of the nursing units, patient populations, regulatory and accreditation and strategic goals of the organization / health system.
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Involves data collection and reporting to patient care data registries, often national. Implements methods for collecting, analyzing, storing, retrieving and reporting patient medical information and statistics. Data reported in accordance with the requirements of federal, state and local laws and the standards of accrediting and regulatory agencies.
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Involves assisting people with functional, psychological, developmental, cognitive and emotional impairments or health disabilities to overcome barriers to accessing, maintaining or returning to employment or other useful occupation.
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Involves assisting people with functional, psychological, developmental, cognitive and emotional impairments or health disabilities to overcome barriers to accessing, maintaining or returning to employment or other useful occupation.
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Involves assisting people with functional, psychological, developmental, cognitive and emotional impairments or health disabilities to overcome barriers to accessing, maintaining or returning to employment or other useful occupation.
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Involves the provision of home health care for patients who are recovering after a hospital stay, or need additional support to remain safely at home and avoid unnecessary hospitalization. Services may include short-term clinical, rehabilitative, therapeutic, and assistive home health care. This care is provided by clinicians in a wide variety of areas, such as registered nurses, licensed vocational nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech language pathologists, home health aides, and medical social workers.
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Involves operating washers, starchers, extractors, tumblers, sterilizers and dryers for laundry. Incumbents typically load and unload washers, extractors, tumblers and dryers; prepare bleaches, starches, detergents, solvents, soaps, blues and alkali according to the washing requirements; regulate washing machines and make adjustments for temperature, water level, washing cycles and washing ingredients; clean, oil and make minor adjustments to laundry equipment; may coordinate the work of one or more Laundry Machine Operators in washing, extracting, tumbling, and drying operations; may maintain records of laundry processed and procedures used; may operate small washing machines to launder delicate fabrics or dye various materials; and may clean work areas.
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Involves the implementation of healthcare-associated infection reduction strategies for patients and staff through assessment and risk identification, researching current literature and practice, study development and presentation / publication, development, implementation, monitoring and reporting prevention strategies, routine and focused surveillance, policy and procedure development, training and education program development and collaboration with staff in departments across the institution.
