This position cares for ill, injured, or convalescing patients or persons with disabilities in clinic setting.
Licensing required.
Administers prescribed medications and gives injections as ordered by physician.
Observes patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
Provides basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, sterilize equipment and supplies, using technique outlined in policy and procedure manual.
Answers patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
Measures and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
Works as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
Collects samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
Prepares patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
Evaluates nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
Helps patients with entering facility in wheelchairs on crutches.
Assist them on scale and onto exam tables.
Applies compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
Inventories and requisitions supplies and instruments.
Cleans rooms and sanitizes beds.
Responsible for referrals of physicians, including the follow-up and authorization process.