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Shift: Varies -(2 pm-10pm) (10pm-6am) 6 am - 2 pm) -Full Time
Job Description:
Job Description:
- Positions in this series provide direct nursing care to individuals* in a variety of State facilities, programs, and settings. Incumbents conduct health assessments; prepare and implement nursing care plans; diagnose and treat individuals’ responses to actual, potential, or diagnosed health problems through nursing services, such as case-finding, health teaching and counseling, and the provision of care supportive to or restorative of life and well-being; execute medical regimens prescribed by licensed health care providers; and serve as members of interdisciplinary health care teams and health-related committees to plan and implement care for individuals.
- Conducts nursing assessments; and obtains, records, and updates individuals’ health information and vital signs, using standard instruments and procedures.
- Prepares, implements, and modifies nursing care plans; prepares individuals for and/or assists with examinations and treatments; and administers medications and nursing procedures to individuals, as prescribed.
- Observes, monitors, and records individuals’ symptoms, conditions, and care, including diet and physical activity; and identifies and reports individuals’ responses to medication or changes in health status.
- Serves as the nursing representative on a treatment team; provides information on nursing needs; and consults and coordinates with treatment teams and other health care disciplines to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate individuals’ care.
- Makes clinical rounds to assess individuals’ nursing care needs and observe and participate in the provision of nursing services.
- Provides health teaching, counseling, and education to individuals, families, and other groups; and develops health improvement programs.
- Implements infection control protocols and procedures and provides related consultation and instruction to staff.
- Maintains and updates charts, records, and other documentation, consistent with agency, State, and federal requirements; and may collect data and perform related activities to support medical research.
- Monitors inventories and ensures that standards for medications, solutions, supplies, and equipment are maintained to meet nursing care needs.
