Salary: up to $6000
Working Days & Hours: Mon-Fri Office Hours
Location: Kent Ridge
Job Description:
Primary Responsibilities
Inpatient CRP (Cardiac Wards)
• Identify patients through proactive screening daily.
• Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates, conducts counselling and teaching for patients and their families/caregiver.
• Provides patient/family information and education on disease process, causes of disease conditions, health education on risk factors, nutritional counselling, smoking cessation advice, exercise & coping strategies at home following discharge.
• Ongoing collaboration among patient, family and a multidisciplinary team to provide valuable connections.
• Refer patients to various need or department accordingly (e.g. Dietician/ Physiotherapist/ Smoking Cessation Counsellor)
• Screen, coordinate selection and recruitment of patient into the outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation Programme (CRP)
• Schedules outpatient Pre-Rehab Assessment Clinic follow-up appointments when appropriate
Outpatient CRP (Heart Rehab) – Clinical
• Referral can be from heart clinics, wards, self-referral, etc.
• Triage the referral, contact patient for more information, ensure correct referral to appropriate exercise rehab program with sufficient time allocation for patient’s visit to respectively physician/therapist appointment booking.
• Check and highlight clinic / CRP orientation appointment list for enrolled patients.
• Coordinate and assist in Pre-Rehab Assessment clinic and schedule Post Rehab Clinic at the end of the program with post program parameter.
• Input the information into the Rehab Clinic database
• Assume responsibility for data collection and entry into CRP database system.
• Coordinate patients’ access and treatment sequence where required for the specialty.
• Tele-care to reschedule patient’s appointment date when defaulted outpatient follow up
Outpatient CRP (Heart Rehab) – Patient Education
• Conducts nurse-led specialty education session for patients and their families.
• Plans, implements, and evaluates in-service talks and specialty training courses based on unit and individual training needs
• Ensures patient education and counselling is carried out according to established standards of care and practice using the approved teaching materials.
• Applies understanding of prevention of medico-legal issues in relation to patient education.
• Assists to review and develop patient education materials in consultation with doctors and paramedical staff.
Outpatient CRP (Heart Rehab) – Operations
• Ensure daily operations of these service points, including administrative/operational matters and partnering Clinic Manager to solve system and process problems.
• Handle purchase, work requisition processes and calling suppliers for quotation.
• Ensure sufficient supply of related educational material / stationery requisition and other equipment maintenance are maintained.
• Updates and maintains patient consultation/CRP training statistics and CRP support group.
Secondary Responsibilities
• Acts as a resource person to nurses, nurse manager / nurse clinician on matters and issues for the specialty.
• Assist and coordinate hospital educational talks and external talks / workshops / forums / seminars.
• Participates in quality improvement / research projects.
• Participates in training /quality improvement / research committees.
• Assume any additional responsibilities as assigned.
Job Requirements: Min Degree in Nursing w min 1-2 years relevant experience in Cardiac ward settings
Interested candidates, please submit your resume to: [email protected]
Ally Audrey Lok Xin Woon
Recruit Express Pte Ltd (Healthcare & Lifescience)
Company EA Licence number : 99C4599
Personnel EA License: R21102307
[email protected]
