RN JOB DESCRIPTION

• Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand care requirements.
• Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
• Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions.
• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against petient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.
• Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations; calling for assistance from health care support personnel.
• Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
• Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
• Maintains continuity amoung nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irrgularities, and continuing needs.
• Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential. Title: Nurse, registered
• Ensures operation of equipment by complting preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer's instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs; maintaining equipment inventories; evaluating new equipment and techniques.
• Maintains nursing supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies; using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
• Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem-solfing methods.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

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LVN JOB DESCRIPTION

• Obtains health history and/or immunication status by interviewing patient and/or relative.
• Determines suspicion of presence of disease by performing screening tests.
• Records patient statistics by measuring and recording height/length and weight, blood pressure, and pulse.
• Immunizes patients by preparing, administering, and recording immunizations.
• Documents actions by completing forms, reports, logs, and records
• Keeps supplies ready by inventoring stock; placing orders; verifying receipt.
• Keepts equipment operating by following operating instructions; troubleshooting breakdowns; maintaining supplies; performing preventive maintenance; calling for repairs.
• Avoids legal challenges by keeping patient information confidential.
• Serves and protects the facility by adhering to professional standards, policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and jcaho standards.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; participating in professional organizations; maintaining licensure.
• Enhances, department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

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