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US
Company size
11-50 employees
Job sector
Health Science
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Other
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Contract
Work environment
In person
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- Provide care for casts, traction, pins, and air splints
- Delegate tasks to other healthcare personnel (May delegate to nursing assistants/care techs)
- Peripheral lab draw using a butterfly needle and syringe
- Empty and care for surgical drains such as Jackson-Pratts, Hemovacs, and etc.
- Apply restraints only as facility policy allows and under the supervision of the Journey Worker (preceptor) nurse
- Communicate with patients and families using therapeutic communication methods
- Assist patients with ambulation, including but not exclusive to use of mobile assistive devices such as walkers, canes, crutches, gait belts, and wheelchairs
- Apply steri-strips, removes bandages and staples/suture
- Administer medications by oral, intra-muscular, subcutaneous, otic, ophthalmic, nasal, nebulizer, or tube routes excluding racemic epinephrine by nebulizer. Administer narcotics only as allowed by facility policy and under the supervision of the Journey Worker (preceptor) nurse.
- Insert and remove urinary catheters
- Care for patients in labor and delivery to include but not limited to applying and monitoring external fetal heart tone (FHT) and uterine contraction monitors (TOCO), monitoring internal FHT and uterine contraction monitors, conducting nonstress tests, checking for cervical dilation and effacement, obtaining vaginal cultures, assisting with epidurals, and assisting with deliveries.
- Converting a primary IV line into a saline lock
- Administer Incentive Spirometer therapy
- Perform 12-lead EKG
- Assist with admission and discharge of patients (May not perform the initial intake assessment, may gather data and perform patient discharge)
- Perform routine care of chest tubes
- Perform sterile dressing procedures pending facility policy
- Discontinue IV therapy
- Apply cold and heat therapies
- Perform wet to dry and clean dressings
- Perform ostomy care
- Perform skin care and pressure ulcer prevention, turning
- Perform hygiene care including bed baths, urinary catheter care, and ostomy care
- Perform hand hygiene
- Document assessments, vital signs, medications, etc.
- Obtain blood glucose readings and appropriately document and disclose results
- Assist patients with activities of daily living such as feeding, clothing, care of teeth and hair, toileting
- Perform comprehensive physical assessment to include identification of normal and abnormal findings
- Obtain vital signs, including blood pressure, pulse, respirations, height/weight, and oxygen saturation
- Straight catheter insertion and removal
- Provide oral, nasal, and tracheal suctioning
- Administer oxygen therapy and perform airway management
- Perform endotracheal tube suctioning, care, and dressing changes
- Perform central line dressing changes as healthcare facility policy allows
- Perform assessments on adult patients, pediatric patients, pregnant patients, post-partum patients, and newborns
- Insert, provide suction, and remove nasogastric tubes
- Administer care of the newborn, including but not limited to assessing the cord and obtaining cord blood, determining Apgar scores, taking measurements, administering vitamin K, Hepatitis vaccine, and erythromycin ointment; and performing heel sticks for PKU and glucose monitoring, monitoring phototherapy, and assisting with circumcisions.
- Perform end-of-life care
- Apply personal protective equipment
- Position and transfer patients
- Perform restorative care to include active and passive range-of-motion exercises and contracture care
- Administer enemas
- Follow safety precautions for fall prevention, seizures, etc.
- Apply sterile gloves/surgical gowning and gloving (may be performed in first time period)
- Preparing primary IV container and tubing
- Administer IV piggy back medications. IV push medications only administered if healthcare facility policy allows. (May not administer IV push medications without further certification)
- Apply sequential compression stockings and/or devices
- Collect non-intravenous and non-arterial specimens
- Administer enteral and nasogastric tube feedings
- Perform post-mortem care
- Insert intravenous (IV) catheters and provide IV therapy (May not start IVs on neonates)
- Manage post-partum care including but not limited to episiotomy care, assessing for postpartum hemorrhage, and assisting with breastfeeding.
- Explain the practical nurse's role in psychiatric and mental health care
- Document assessments
- Provide care for clients with selected gastro-intestinal system alterations
- Apply mathematical principles in written calculation and problem solving while preparing dosages
- Provide care to clients experiencing selected emergencies
- Apply knowledge of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
- Explain structure and function of the body
- Provide care for clients with respiratory system alterations
- Provide care for clients with burns
- Perform IV therapy
- Administer medication through tubes
- Promote maintain and restore elimination
- Manage comfort pain sleep and rest
- Provide care for clients with selected cardiovascular system alterations
- Obtain a health history to gather subjective data
- Provide care for clients with selected endocrine system alterations
- Provide for nutrition/fluid balance
- Provide needs-based care according to Maslow's Hierarchy
- Provide care for clients with musculo-skeletal system alterations
- Provide care for clients with cancer
