Oversee all patient navigation responsibilities to ensure coordinated and efficient patient care is provided.
• Arranges and coordinates patient appointments for follow-up examinations related to breast care.
• Enter pathology results into Radiology’s management information system (RIS). Produce standard and ad-hoc reports from this information system germane to breast imaging.
• Explain to patients, in laymen’s terms, results from breast imaging studies and pathology reports, and address all questions posed by patients and family members.
• Obtain brief medical histories from patients who are scheduled for procedures, being alert to conditions that may affect the patient’s ability to physically or emotionally tolerate the procedure. Inform technologists and radiologists of special circumstances such as a patient who takes anticoagulant medications, or who is highly anxious.
• Provides continuity of care for patients while they are in the Radiology Department, as needed.
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