Job Description
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
Duties:
- Perform patient assessment using appropriate, problem-focused, and age-specific assessment techniques.
- Analyze the assessment data, derive nursing interventions, set priorities according to patients needs, formulate a plan of care, implement and evaluate the outcome.
- Document all relevant data in the electronic medical record according to clinic standards.
- Treat patients and families with care and respect while maintaining patient privacy and confidentiality.
- Involve the patient, significant others, and health care providers in the plan of care when appropriate.
- Collaborate with other disciplines through multidisciplinary meetings and care conferences to facilitate patient care and operations.
- Attends to Home care visits when scheduled on-call shift
- Demonstrate the required assessment and therapeutic skills.
- Implement and monitor infection control measures.
- Provide basic life support when needed.
- Administer medications, monitor desirable and undesirable effects and intervene appropriately.§ Manage patients with infectious diseases when applicable.
- Manage pediatric patients with infectious diseases when applicable.