• 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 healthy outcomes against patient 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 control substance regulations.
• Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
• Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.
• Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Ensures operation of equipment by completing 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 sup