Qureshi University, Advanced courses, via cutting edge technology, News, Breaking News | Latest News And Media | Current News
admin@qureshiuniversity.com

Apply for Academic Admission | Academic Guide | Administrative law | About the Founder | Aircraft | Aviation World | Ambassadors | Accreditation | A to Z Degree Fields | Books | Blog | Catalog | Calendar | Collaboration | Colleges | Complaint | Contact Us | Continents/States | Construction | Contracts | Courses | Doctor Consultation | Distance Education | Equipment | Emergency | Emergency call centers | Economy and Budget | Examinations | English Editing Service | Forms | Faculty | Facilities | Governor | Glossary | Grants | Helicopters | Hostels | Honorary Doctorate degree | Human Services | Human Resources | Internet Education | Inspections | Internet | Intellectual Property | Investment | Instructors | Internship | Job Openings | Journal | Login | Lecture | Librarians | Languages | License/Permit/Registration | Medical Emergency | Manufacturing | Materials | Mentor | Movies | Money transfer(Pay Now) | Membership | North America | Non-Emergency Services | Observers | Planet Earth | Proposals | Publication | Professional Examinations | Programs | Professions | Paraprofessional | Profile | Progress Report | Recommendations | Ration food and supplies | Research Grants | Research | State Directories | Students login | School | Search | Software | Seminar | Study Center/Centre | Sponsorship | Submit an Issue | Team | Tutoring | Thesis | Universities | Universe & Space | Vehicles | Work counseling | World economy

Care Coordinator
Patient Care Coordinator
What should you know about this profession?
Annotation or definition.
Abilities
Area of service
Communication Skills
Duties
Department affiliation
Education
Equipment/resources (tools & technology).
General abilities
Ideas
Interests
Job zone
Knowledge
License for this profession
Location of work
Meetings
Number of professionals/workers required
Number of professionals/workers required outside the state
Profession-specific abilities
Related occupations/professions
Remuneration
Requirement for human resources
Resources for work
Scientific Skills
Skills
Sources of additional information
Supervisor
Tasks
Tools and technology
Travel
Training program
Work activities
Work context
Work credits
Work Environment
Work hours
Work styles
Work values
Questions you will learn at this resource.
Questions relevant to your profession.
What profession is been described in these guidelines?
What are other names for this profession?
Why should you learn these questions?
What abilities/skills should you have relevant to this profession?
How do you define this profession?
Why is this professional required?
When is this professional required?
What is expected of this professional?
How can this professional help others?
What are the duties of this job?
What questions must be answered before assigning specific duty to this professional?
What are you expected to know relevant to this profession?
What abilities are essential for this profession?
What is the department affiliation in the state for this profession or occupation?
How long does it take to get educated for this profession?
What minimum equipment or resources are required for this profession?
What should an individual know about licensing relevant to a profession?
What abilities/skills are essential for a highly skilled profession?
What is the remuneration?
What is this job like?
How do you get ready?
How many jobs are there?
What about the future?
Are there other jobs like this?
Where can you find more information?
What is the area of service for this profession?
Why should the state department of health elaborate on the job description of the care coordinator?
What have been various findings up to now?
A care coordinator in Chicago, Illinois, approached a resident through telephone call and email while communicating that some questions will be submitted via email. Suddenly, the care coordinator declares that he is quitting his job, making a total of 10 months that the specific resident remains without a healthcare provider. What are your plans to prevent such incidents?
If the state’s (for example Illinois) department of health has a profile of residents, why does the care coordinator need to get profiles of residents again?
How do you ensure that a resident is not neglected while being assigned to a care coordinator?
If there are no physicians, specialist, or super specialists within walking distance of, for example, 5042 N. Winthrop Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60640, who has the duty to place competent physicians, specialist, or super specialist in the area from state department of health?
What are you doing to improve the quality of physicians/specialists/super specialists within walking distance in the community?
What is a care coordinator?
Why is a care coordinator required?
When is care coordinator useful?
What is expected of a care coordinator?
How can a care coordinator help doctor and residents?
Annotation or definition.

What profession is been described in these guidelines?
Care Coordinator.

What are other names for this profession?
Patient Care Coordinator

Why should you learn these questions?
At some point in your life, these questions will be helpful. You will be asked various questions like those displayed here.

Abilities.

What abilities/skills should you have relevant to this profession?
General abilities.
Profession-specific abilities.

General abilities.

English language understanding, reading, writing, and speaking.
Credibility. (You should never lie.)
Politeness (speech, manners, behavior).
Desire for public service.

Department affiliation

What is the department affiliation in the state for this profession or occupation?
The State department of health.

Education

How long does it take to get educated for this profession?
In olden days, this used to take 2-3 years.

Equipment/resources (tools & technology).

What minimum equipment or resources are required for this profession?
Computer with Internet.
USB flash equipment.
Telephone/fax.
Equipment and resources will also depend on work setting.

What abilities/skills are essential for a highly skilled profession?
General abilities.
Profession-specific abilities.

General abilities.

English language understanding, reading, writing, and speaking.
Credibility (you should never lie).
Politeness (speech, manners, behavior).
Desire for public service.

Profession-specific abilities.

What are the usual duties/tasks for the profession/occupation?
This depends on the setting of work.

Relevant English language abilities

Why is understanding, reading, writing, and speaking the English language essential for this profession?
Recent advances in research guidelines are displayed in English.
Most allopathic medicine guidelines are in English.

Remuneration

What is the remuneration?
Remuneration depends on the quality of the state’s economy.

You should look forward to packages like these:
http://www.qureshiuniversity.com/humanservicesworld.html

If the state’s economy is healthy, you will get more.
Here are further guidelines.

How many jobs are there?
Physicians (Per 10,000 Population)
Here are further guidelines.

What about the future?
Why was there a need to elaborate on these questions?

License for this profession

What should you know about a license for this profession?
What is Care Coordination?
Job Description

Description: Patient Care Coordinator

Patient Care Coordinator Job Purpose: Provides coordinated care to (age-specific) patients by developing, monitoring, and evaluating interdisciplinary care.

Patient Care Coordinator Job Duties:

•Orients and educates patients and their families by meeting them; explaining the role of the patient care coordinator; initiating the care plan; providing educational information in conjunction with direct care providers related to treatments, procedures, medications, and continuing care requirements.

•Develops interdisciplinary care plan and other case management tools by participating in meetings; coordinating information and care requirements with other care providers; resolving issues that could affect smooth care progression; fostering peer support; providing education to others regarding the case management process.

•Monitors delivery of care by completing patient rounds; documenting care; identifying progress toward desired care outcomes; intervening to overcome deviations in the expected plan of care; reviewing the care plan with patients in conjunction with the direct care providers; interacting with involved departments to negotiate and expedite scheduling and completion of tests, procedures, and consults; reporting personnel and performance issues to the unit manager; maintaining ongoing communication with utilization review staff regarding variances from the care plan or transfer/discharge plan.

•Evaluates outcomes of care with the interdisciplinary team by measuring intervention effectiveness with the team; implementing team recommendations.

•Complies with hospital and legal requirements by fostering nursing practices that adhere to the hospital's and nursing division's philosophy, goals, and standards of care; requiring adherence to nurse practice act and other governing regulations.

•Protects self, co-workers, and patients by following policies and procedures to prevent the spread of bloodborne and/or airborne diseases.

•Respects patients by recognizing their rights; maintaining confidentiality.

•Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.

•Maintains patient care database by entering new information as it becomes available; verifying findings and reports; backing up data.

•Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.

•Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed. Skills/Qualifications: Persuasion, Verbal Communication, Health Promotion and Maintenance, Patient Services, Building Relationships, Resolving Conflict, Coordination, Listening, Scheduling, Teamwork, Legal Compliance

Care coordination means different things to different people; no consensus definition has fully evolved. A recent systematic review identified over 40 definitions of the term "care coordination."2 The systematic review authors combined the common elements from many definitions to develop one working definition for use in identifying reviews of interventions in the vicinity of care coordination and, as a result, developed a purposely broad definition: "Care coordination is the deliberate organization of patient care activities between two or more participants (including the patient) involved in a patient's care to facilitate the appropriate delivery of health care services. Organizing care involves the marshalling of personnel and other resources needed to carry out all required patient care activities and is often managed by the exchange of information among participants responsible for different aspects of care." For some purposes, they noted that other definitions may be more appropriate. This lack of consensus is perhaps not surprising given the many different participants involved in coordinating care.

In this section we provide a visual definition (go to Figure 1) and scenarios to help illustrate care coordination in the absence of a consensus definition. This visual definition may be helpful to some Atlas users, and less so to others. Several additional illustrations of care coordination are presented in a recent monograph on quality of cancer care.

Why should the state department of health elaborate on the job description of the care coordinator?
Various resources are interpreting care coordinator differently. There has to be one standard job description of the care coordinator in the state in consultation with physicians of the state.

Perspectives on Care Coordination

Successes and failures in care coordination will be perceived (and may be measured) in different ways depending on the perspective: patient/family, health care professional(s), or system representative(s). Consideration of views from these three potentially different perspectives is likely to be important for measuring care coordination comprehensively.

Patient/Family Perspective. Care coordination is any activity that helps ensure that the patient's needs and preferences for health services and information sharing across people, functions, and sites are met over time.4

Patients, their families, and other informal caregivers experience failures in coordination particularly at points of transition. Transitions may occur between health care entities (see definition under "additional terms") and over time and are characterized by shifts in responsibility and information flow. Patients perceive failures in terms of unreasonable levels of effort required on the part of themselves or their informal caregivers in order to meet care needs during transitions among health care entities.

Health Care Professional(s) Perspective. Care coordination is a patient- and family-centered, team-based activity designed to assess and meet the needs of patients, while helping them navigate effectively and efficiently through the health care system. Clinical coordination involves determining where to send the patient next (e.g., sequencing among specialists), what information about the patient is necessary to transfer among health care entities, and how accountability and responsibility is managed among all health care professionals (doctors, nurses, social workers, care managers, supporting staff, etc.). Care coordination addresses potential gaps in meeting patients' interrelated medical, social, developmental, behavioral, educational, informal support system, and financial needs in order to achieve optimal health, wellness, or end-of-life outcomes, according to patient preferences.5

Health care professionals notice failures in coordination particularly when the patient is directed to the "wrong" place in the health care system or has a poor health outcome as a result of poor handoffs or inadequate information exchanges. They also perceive failures in terms of unreasonable levels of effort required on their part in order to accomplish necessary levels of coordination during transitions among health care entities.

System Representative(s) Perspective. Care coordination is the responsibility of any system of care (e.g., "accountable care organization [ACO]") to deliberately integrate personnel, information, and other resources needed to carry out all required patient care activities between and among care participants (including the patient and informal caregivers). The goal of care coordination is to facilitate the appropriate and efficient delivery of health care services both within and across systems.

Failures in coordination that affect the financial performance of the system will likely motivate corrective interventions. System representatives will also perceive a failure in coordination when a patient experiences a clinically significant mishap that results from fragmentation of care.6

Additional Terms. Definitions for additional terms relating to care coordination are presented below.

Health care entities. Health care entities are discrete units of the health care system that play distinct roles in delivery of care. The context and perspective will determine who precisely those units are. For example:

  • From a patient and family perspective, entities are likely to be individual health care providers with whom the patient and family interact, such as nurses, physicians, and support staff.
  • From a health care professional perspective, entities may be individual members of a work group, such as nurses, physicians, and support staff in a particular clinic. Or they may be provider groups, such as a primary care practice, specialty practice, or urgent care clinic.
  • From a system representative(s) perspective, entities will likely be groups of providers acting together as a unit, such as medical units in a hospital, hospitals as a whole, specialty clinics within an integrated system, or different clinical settings within the health care system overall (i.e., ambulatory care, inpatient care, emergency care).

Points of transition. Transitions occur when information about or accountability/responsibility for some aspect of a patient's care is transferred between two or more health care entities, or is maintained over time by one entity. Often information and responsibility are (or should be) transferred together.

It may be useful to think about two broad categories of transitions:

  1. Transitions between entities of health care system. Information transfer and/or responsibility shifts:
    • Among members of one care team (receptionist, nurse, physician)
    • Between patient care teams
    • Between patients/informal caregivers and professional caregivers
    • Across settings (primary care, specialty care, inpatient, emergency department)
    • Between health care organizations
  2. Transitions over time. Information transfer and/or responsibility shifts:
    • Between episodes of care (i.e., initial visit and followup visit)
    • Across lifespan (e.g., pediatric developmental stages, women's changing reproductive cycle, geriatric care needs)
    • Across trajectory of illness and changing levels of coordination need

What have been various findings up to now?
A care coordinator in Chicago, Illinois, approached a resident through telephone call and email while communicating that some questions will be submitted via email. Suddenly, the care coordinator declares that she is quitting her job, making a total of 10 months that the specific resident remains without a healthcare provider. What are your plans to prevent such incidents?

Questions that need to be answered.

If the state’s (for example Illinois) department of health has a profile of residents, why does the care coordinator need to get profiles of residents again?

How do you ensure that a resident is not neglected while being assigned to a care coordinator?

If there are no physicians, specialist, or super specialists within walking distance of, for example, 5042 N. Winthrop Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60640, who has the duty to place competent physicians, specialist, or super specialist in the area from state department of health?

What are you doing to improve the quality of physicians/specialists/super specialists within walking distance in the community?

What is a care coordinator?
Why is a care coordinator required?
When is care coordinator useful?
What is expected of a care coordinator?
How can a care coordinator help doctor and residents?
Here are further guidelines.