auvil+-+nurse

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====//** job description Assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled patients. May advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management. Licensing or registration required. Includes advance practice nurses such as: nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse midwives, and certified registered nurse anesthetists. Advanced practice nursing is practiced by RNs who have specialized formal, post-basic education and who function in highly autonomous and specialized roles .**// //**education**// //** medium preparation needed. most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on the job ezperience, or an associates degree. some may require a bathelor's degree. one or two years of training. salary**// //**$31,830 for entry level workers, and $46,300**// task ==== **1**. Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, and note times and amounts on patients' charts. **3**. Provide basic patient care and treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
 * 2**. Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action
 * 4**. Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
 * 5**. Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
 * 6**. Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration.
 * 7**. Work as part of a health care team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care and implement interventions.
 * 8**. Collect samples such as blood, urine and sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
 * 9**. Prepare patients for examinations, tests or treatments and explain procedures.
 * 10**. Assemble and use equipment such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, and oxygen suppliers.
 * 11**. Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other health care team members as necessar