Job Description
Job Description
Full and part-time available on all shifts
Job Description:
-Conducts nursing assessments; and obtains, records, and updates individuals’
health information and vital signs, using standard instruments and procedures.
-Prepares individuals for and/or assists with examinations and treatments.
-Administers medications and nursing procedures to individuals as prescribed.
-Prepares, implements, and modifies nursing care plans; provides clinical
supervision and/or instruction to direct care staff in completing care tasks; and
delegates responsibility for appropriate nursing activities, skills, and/or
procedures to direct care staff.
-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
evaluate 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.
-May prepare work schedules; provide information to nurse supervisors; and
prepare or contribute to the preparation of required reports and performance
evaluations for lower-level staff involved in nursing care activities.
-May supervise a unit(s) on an assigned shift.