Job Description: • 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 health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments as per the local regulatory standards. • 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 controlled 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. • Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements maintaining equipment inventories evaluating new equipment and techniques.
