¶ … roles available to nurse administrators.
Include at least one nurse administrator role in a health care agency.
Complete each cell of this grid with concise descriptions. Bulleted words and phrases are preferred to complete sentences.
Cite a minimum of 4 peer-reviewed resources, and include a reference page formatted according to APA guidelines.
Patient Advocate
Healthcare IT (HIT)
Utilization Reviewer
Legal Nurse Consultant
Two related responsibilities
Medical navigational assistance
Home health assistance
Nursing Informatics:
Electronic coding and billing systems
Electronic medical records (EMR)
- Networks for digital imaging such as PACS
- Making sure health care services are being used appropriately.
- Ensuring high quality care is administered as economically as possible.
-- Case management (utilization review plus discharge)
Analyze complex medical information
2 - Render informed opinions to attorneys in medical-legal matters
Identify the practice environment where this role may be applied
Clinics: Accompany a patient to appointments
Hospital: Monitor the patient at the bedside in a hospital
Cross-environmental: Act as a healthcare proxy
Hospitals
Clinics
Specialty Medical Centers
Laboratories
Hospitals
Home health companies Health insurance companies
Includes coordination with quality improvement team, social work team, discharge planning team, and the clinical staff caring for the patient.
About half of all legal nurse consultants are employed in law firms, insurance companies and other private institutions, while the other half work as independent...
Some have assisted relatives or friends through difficult medical circumstances. Or navigated the healthcare system on their own.
1 - Certificate Granting Programs in Patient Advocacy and Navigation
2 - Patient Advocacy Programs for Hospital Patient Advocates
3 - Specialized-Focus Patient Advocate and Navigator Programs
4 - Patient Advocacy Degree Programs (Bachelors or Masters Level)
Two ways to break into healthcare IT:
1 - From the clinical side, moving into a health IT role
2 -- From the IT side, moving from an IT professional role, without healthcare experience, making the transition into a healthcare IT role.
Registered nurse degree
Masters level RN
Doctoral level RN
Hospital administration experience
Registered nursing education
Legal nurse consultants are licensed, registered nurses who generally have at least a bachelor's degree and a minimum of five years' experience in any nursing specialty.
Nurses generally enter the legal nurse consulting field by taking legal nurse consulting coursework and/or obtaining a legal nurse consulting certification.
Issues or opportunities role might face
Most patient advocates or navigators work as individuals, running their own navigation consultancies or businesses. This means there are self-employment challenges, so it is important to have an entrepreneurial mindset.
Clinical knowledge is very valuable in the Health IT field. Clinicians who transfer into health IT may come from a background as a nurse.
Careers in nursing informatics, clinical process improvement, and service line analysts are a common careers for former…
