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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.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-1141.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 72,180.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 34.00
- Currently, there are 2,857,180 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Registered Nurses”.
Also Known As…
- Registered Nurses
- Staff RN (Staff Registered Nurse)
- Staff Nurse
- School Nurse
- Registered Nurse (RN)
- Public Health Nurse (PHN)
- Operating Room Registered Nurse (OR RN)
- Oncology RN (Oncology Registered Nurse)
- Emergency Department RN (Emergency Department Registered Nurse)
- Director of Nursing (DON)
- Charge Nurse
- X Ray Nurse
- Ward Supervisor
- Ward Nurse
- Visiting Nurse
- Triage Register Nurse
- Travel RN (Travel Registered Nurse)
- Trauma Nurse
- Transverse Abdominal Muscle Nurse (TRAM Nurse)
- Telephone Triage Nurse
- Surgical Supervisor
- Surgical Nurse
- Surgical First Assistant
- Supervisor Nurse
- Student Nurse
- Special Duty Nurse
- Scrub Nurse
- RN BSN (Registered Nurse Bachelor of Science in Nursing)
- Relief Charge Nurse
- Registered Public Health Nurse
- Registered Private Duty Nurse
- Registered Nurse Supervisor
- Registered Health Nurse
- Recovery Room Nurse
- Receptionist Nurse
- Public Health Staff Nurse
- Psychiatric Registered Nurse
- Psychiatric Nurse
- Private Duty Nurse
- Prenatal Nurse
- Post-Anesthesia Care Unit Registered Nurse (PACU RN)
- Post-Anesthesia Care Unit Nurse
- Post Anesthesia Room Nurse
- Post Anesthesia Care Unit Registered Nurse (PACU Nurse)
- Physical Therapy Nurse
- Perioperative Nurse
- Perinatal Nurse
- Perianesthesia Nurse
- Pediatric Oncology Nurse
- Pediatric Nurse
- Patient Care Coordinator
- Operating Room Nurse
- Oncology Nurse
- Occupational Nurse
- Occupational Health Nurse Supervisor
- Occupational Health Nurse
- Obstetrics Scrub Nurse (OB Scrub Nurse)
- Obstetrics Nurse (OB Nurse)
- Obstetrical Nurse
- OB/GYN Nurse (Obstetrics/Gynecology Nurse)
- Nurses Supervisor
- Nurse Technician
- Nurse Receptionist
- Nurse Manager
- Nurse Educator
- Nurse Coordinator
- Nurse Consultant
- Nurse Clinician
- Nurse Case Manager
- Nurse Anesthetist
- Nephrology Nurse
- Neonatal Nurse
- Neonatal Intensive Care Registered Nurse (NICU RN)
- Mid Wife
- Medical/Surgery Registered Nurse (Med/Surg RN)
- Maternity Nurse
- Maternity Floor Supervisor
- Life Care Planner
- Legal Nurse Consultant
- Lactation Consultant
- Labor and Delivery Nurse
- Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse (ICU RN)
- Intensive Care Unit Nurse (ICU Nurse)
- Infection Control Nurse
- Industrial Staff Nurse
- Industrial Registered Nurse
- Industrial Nurse
- Hospice Registered Nurse
- Home Health RN (Home Health Registered Nurse)
- Health Unit Supervisor
- Health Care Coordinator
- Head Nurse
- Geriatric Care Manager
- Genetics Nurse
- General Duty Nurse
- Forensic Nurse
- Floor Supervisor
- Flight Nurse
- Field Nurse
- Evening or Night Nurse Supervisor
- Endoscopy RN (Endoscopy Registered Nurse)
- Emergency Room RN
- Emergency Room Nurse
- Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia Practice
- Discharge Planner
- Dialysis Registered Nurse (Dialysis RN)
- Dialysis Nurse
- Delivery Room Supervisor
- Delivery Nurse
- County Nurse
- Coronary Care Unit Nurse (CCU Nurse)
- Consulting Nurse
- Consultant Nurse
- Community Health Nurse Supervisor
- Community Health Nurse
- Clinical Supervisor
- Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Clinical Nurse
- Circulating Nurse
- Certified Nurse Operating Room (CNOR)
- Central Supply Nurse
- Case Manager
- Cardiac Nurse Specialist
- Cardiac Care Unit Nurse (CCU Nurse)
- Ambulatory Care Coordinator
Tasks for “Traveling Nurse”
- Observe nurses and visit patients to ensure proper nursing care.
- Record patients' medical information and vital signs.
- Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions.
- Refer students or patients to specialized health resources or community agencies furnishing assistance.
- Hand items to surgeons during operations.
- Consult and coordinate with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans.
- Prepare rooms, sterile instruments, equipment, or supplies and ensure that stock of supplies is maintained.
- Provide health care, first aid, immunizations, or assistance in convalescence or rehabilitation in locations such as schools, hospitals, or industry.
- Direct or coordinate infection control programs, advising or consulting with specified personnel about necessary precautions.
- Perform administrative or managerial functions, such as taking responsibility for a unit's staff, budget, planning, or long-range goals.
- Conduct specified laboratory tests.
- Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses and conditions.
- Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient's condition.
- Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity.
- Work with individuals, groups, or families to plan or implement programs designed to improve the overall health of communities.
- Prescribe or recommend drugs, medical devices, or other forms of treatment, such as physical therapy, inhalation therapy, or related therapeutic procedures.
- Inform physician of patient's condition during anesthesia.
- Assess the needs of individuals, families, or communities, including assessment of individuals' home or work environments, to identify potential health or safety problems.
- Perform physical examinations, make tentative diagnoses, and treat patients en route to hospitals or at disaster site triage centers.
- Prepare patients for and assist with examinations or treatments.
- Consult with institutions or associations regarding issues or concerns relevant to the practice and profession of nursing.
- Direct or supervise less-skilled nursing or healthcare personnel or supervise a particular unit.
- Provide or arrange for training or instruction of auxiliary personnel or students.
- Instruct individuals, families, or other groups on topics such as health education, disease prevention, or childbirth and develop health improvement programs.
- Administer medications to patients and monitor patients for reactions or side effects.
- Engage in research activities related to nursing.
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.
- Administer local, inhalation, intravenous, or other anesthetics.
Related Technology & Tools
- Intravenous IV equipment
- Meconium aspirators
- Suture needles
- Grounding pads
- Personal computers
- Enema equipment
- Phaco consoles
- Vacutainer tubes
- Curved hemostats
- Gastrointestinal GI endoscopes
- Intubation stylets
- Pacemakers
- Urine analysis equipment
- Bilevel positive airway pressure BiPAP ventilators
- Surgical clamps
- Head immobilizers
- Nebulizers
- Torso immobilizers
- T-pieces with aerosol
- Urinary catheters
- Insulin pumps
- Skin traction equipment
- Cardiac monitors
- Straight hemostats
- Traction equipment
- Tourniquets
- Cervical collars
- Triple lumen catheters
- Snellen eye charts
- Colposcopes
- Bladder irrigation equipment
- Infusion pump enteral feeding tubes
- Evacuated blood collection tubes
- Splints
- Nasal cannulas
- Electrosurgical devices
- Medical tuning forks
- Audiometers
- Binocular light compound microscopes
- Bed scales
- Jackson-Pratt drains
- Epidural pumps
- Ventricular assist devices VAD
- Telemedicine equipment
- Pulmonary artery catheters
- Angiocaths
- Doppler pulse measurement devices
- Lower extremity prosthetic devices
- Computerized electrocardiography EKG and hemodynamic monitoring systems
- Pleuravacs
- Oral suctioning equipment
- Cervical traction equipment
- Fetal monitors
- Nasal suctioning equipment
- Vacutainer sleeves
- Incentive spirometers
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Chemotherapy spill kits
- Photopheresis systems
- Fetal scalp electrodes
- Laser printers
- Continuous enteral feeding equipment
- Reflex hammers
- Centrifuges
- Bilimeters
- Laryngoscope blades
- Manometers
- Syringes
- Intravenous IV tubing
- Aqua K pads
- Non-rebreather masks
- Venous Oxygen Saturation SVO2 monitors
- Hospital beds
- Hemovac drains
- Surgical drapes
- Glucose testing equipment
- Scalpels
- Endotracheal ET tubes
- Swab dryers
- One-way valve protective shields
- Isolettes
- Blood warming equipment
- Manually operated oxygen supply resuscitators
- Continuous positive airway pressure CPAP ventilators
- Defibrillators
- Continuous passive motion CPM machines
- Occlusion clamps
- Ventilators
- Oxygen administration equipment
- Overhead clinical trapezes
- Tracheal suctioning equipment
- Mechanical lift devices
- Lukens traps
- Intermittent enteral feeding equipment
- Pelvic specula
- Hemostats
- Peripheral butterflys
- Arterial blood gas testing equipment
- Infant warmers
- Peripheral angiocaths
- Urinalysis test strips
- Umbilical catheters
- Russell's traction equipment
- Ventimasks
- Rape kits
- Infant security sensors
- Pelvic traction equipment
- Suture needleholders
- Levine tubes
- Manual blood pressure monitors
- Mayo trays
- Leather restraints
- Vacuum extractors
- Autoclaves
- Loop electrosurgical excision procedure LEEP equipment
- Transport cardiac monitors
- Percussion hammers
- Notebook computers
- Crutches
- Automated medicine dispensing equipment
- Otoscopes
- Flexible sigmoidoscopes
- Autotransfusion systems
- Sequential compression devices
- Electronic blood pressure monitors
- Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation TENS equipment
- Vest restraints
- Manual resuscitation bags
- Blood collection needles
- Pulse oximeters
- Bucks traction equipment
- Surgical lights
- Titmus vision screeners
- Canes
- Cardiac monitor electrodes
- Nasogastric tubes
- Double lumen catheters
- Oxygen flowmeters
- Electrocardiography EKG units
- Suction equipment
- Tuberculosis TB skin test equipment
- Oxygen tanks
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Tracheostomy collars
- Staple removers
- Heparin locks
- Partial masks
- Oxygen regulators
- Infusion control devices
- Subcutaneous hypodermic needles
- Heelstick blood sampling equipment
- Suture removal kits
- Capillary glucose monitors
- Balanced suspension traction equipment
- Anti-embolism elastic stockings
- Colonoscopy equipment
- Tablet computers
- Flash sterilizers
- Patient controlled analgesia PCA pumps
- Intravenous syringe pumps
- Walkers
- Gait belts
- Phaco apparatus
- Telemetry units
- Retractors
- Intra-aortic balloon pumps IABP
- Peripheral intravenous IV locks
- Single lumen catheters
- Phototherapy equipment
- Patient lifters
- Upper extremity prosthetic devices
- Spine boards
- Lancets
- Bag-valve masks
- Medical encyclopedias
- Epidural catheters
- Limb restraints
- Cooling blankets
- Intracranial pressure monitors
- Apnea monitors
- Oxyhoods
- Hyper/hypothermia blankets
- Intramuscular needles
- Arterial line catheters
- Pocket personal computers PC
- DoctorsPartner EMR
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
- Microsoft Outlook
- PCC EHR
- Microsoft Excel
- Epic Systems
- Medical condition coding software
- Microsoft Office
- Misys Healthcare Systems Misys HomeCare
- Per-Se Technologies ORSOS One-Call
- Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager
- HMS
- IDX Systems
- Diagnostic and procedural coding software
- Kronos Workforce Timekeeper
- Siemens SIENET Sky
- Data entry software
- Electronic medical record EMR software
- Misys Healthcare Systems Misys CPR
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Word
- Drug guide software
- Allscripts Misys Healthcare Systems
- QuadraMed Affinity Healthcare Information System
- Medical procedure coding software
- IBM Notes
- Microsoft Access
- Human resource management software HRMS
- MEDITECH software