Location: Kent Ridge
Working Hour: Mon-Fri, 830am-6pm
Job Scope:
• 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
• 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
• 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.
Job Requirements:
• Min. Degree in nursing
For interested applicants, please send your updated resume to: melissa@recruitexpress.com.sg
All candidates’ information will be treated with the strictest confidence
Melissa Zhang Zhiqi (Mezzo)
R2197564
Recruit Express Pte Ltd
99C4599
