AddressProvides nursing care to patients under the direction of a Registered Nurse, utilizes observational skills to assess nursing intervention and assists medical staff to insure optimal care within established policies, procedures and standards.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Exhibits excellent customer relations to patients, visitors, physicians, and co-workers; shows courtesy compassion, and respect; conforms to the critical service standards established for the department and the hospital.
- Provides therapeutic patient care in accordance with the patients established by the physician and a registered nurse within scope of practice.
- Transcribes physicians orders as directed by policy. Communicated directly within registered nurse to institute change in plan of care; assist with and contributes to development of nursing care plan (Interdisciplinary Care Plan).
- Gives specified medication orally, hypodermically, intramuscularly and topically.
- Executes treatment such as urinary catheterizations, bladder irrigations and installations, suctioning procedures, throat irrigations and enemas; utilizing equipment as required; provides nursing care for patients in isolation.
- Performs related patient care functions such as taking temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressure readings; applying and removing dressings, and bathing; may instruct patients in various self-administered treatments or procedures; obtains specimens; assures correct culture collection.
- Assists physician or other medical staff personnel with examinations and treatments by selecting and passing instruments, providing support and restraint to patient, draping and other assistance as directed or requested.
- Within scope, evaluates patients condition by observing signs, symptoms, and reactions to therapy, to identify unexpected and/or significant findings, initiates appropriate emergency procedures as necessary and reports unusual conditions to the registered nurse as established policy and procedure in a timely manner; maintains intravenous flow rate, notifies R.N. of any problems and discontinues needles, except intra-cath and CVP lines.
- Identifies learning and discharge barriers.
- Provides non-complicated teaching following the registered nurses plan for education.
- Documents patients signs, symptoms, observations and therapeutic treatments to patients medical record.
- Ensures cleanliness of nursing station, patient room, and unit environment and proper functioning of patient care equipment by visual inspection, routine testing, and other related methods.
- Provides a safe therapeutic environment for patients and staff.
- Utilizes effective verbal and non-verbal forms of communication.
- Performs in other areas or units to which assigned as required by nursing administration to provide and maintain the established standards of care and safety.
- Participates in staff meetings and inservice programs.
- Assists in ordering and distribution of unit supplies and equipment.
- Accepts verbal and telephone orders from physician.
- Administers pulse oximetry, humidification therapy, spirometer, oxygen therapy via mask or nasal cannula, oral nasal and trach suctioning and sputum induction.
- Documents care in chart. Performs other related duties as required.
- Assists in coordinating the discharge process.
- Promotes, ensures, and improves customer service to internal/external customers by demonstrating skills which are consistent with the organizations philosophy of providing extraordinary customer relations and quality service.
