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- Consult and coordinate with health care team members to assess, plan,
implement and evaluate patient care plans.
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- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.
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- Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses
and conditions.
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- Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical
activity.
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- Monitor, record and report symptoms and changes in patients' conditions.
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- Observe nurses and visit patients to ensure that proper nursing care
is provided.
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- Prepare patients for, and assist with, examinations and treatments.
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- Prepare rooms, sterile instruments, equipment and supplies, and ensure
that stock of supplies is maintained.
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- Provide health care, first aid, immunizations and assistance in convalescence
and rehabilitation in locations such as schools, hospitals, and industry.
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- Record patients' medical information and vital signs.
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- Assess the needs of individuals, families and/or communities, including
assessment of individuals' home and/or work environments to identify
potential health or safety problems.
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- Conduct specified laboratory tests.
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- Consult with institutions or associations regarding issues and concerns
relevant to the practice and profession of nursing.
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- Direct and supervise less skilled nursing/health care personnel,
or supervise a particular unit on one shift.
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- Hand items to surgeons during operations.
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- Instruct individuals, families and other groups on topics such as
health education, disease prevention and childbirth, and develop health
improvement programs.
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- Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess
patient's condition.
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- Prescribe or recommend drugs, medical devices or other forms of treatment,
such as physical therapy, inhalation therapy, or related therapeutic
procedures.
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- Provide or arrange for training/instruction of auxiliary personnel
or students.
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- Refer students or patients to specialized health resources or community
agencies furnishing assistance.
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- Work with individuals, groups, and families to plan and implement
programs designed to improve the overall health of communities.
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- Administer local, inhalation, intravenous, and other anesthetics.
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- Contract independently to render nursing care, usually to one patient,
in hospital or private home.
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- Deliver infants and provide prenatal and postpartum care and treatment
under obstetrician's supervision.
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- Direct and coordinate infection control programs, advising and consulting
with specified personnel about necessary precautions.
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- Engage in research activities related to nursing.
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- Inform physician of patient's condition during anesthesia.
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- Perform administrative and managerial functions, such as taking responsibility
for a unit's staff, budget, planning, and long-range goals.
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- Perform physical examinations, make tentative diagnoses, and treat
patients en route to hospitals or at disaster site triage centers.
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