Registered Nurse

Job Description

• Perform systematic patient assessment and collect pertinent data about the patient’s health or situation.
• Understand and analyze the assessment information and data.
• Determine actual and potential nursing diagnoses, problems, and issues.
• Define the predicted and expected outcomes of the patient’s planned care.
• Create and evaluate patient care plans with the medical team.
• Record vital signs, recognize, and address abnormalities.
• Define the care plan in collaboration with the healthcare team, patients, and families.
• Maintain and update technical and clinical skills related to nursing practice.
• Employ strategies to promote patients’ health and a safe environment.
• Understand different diagnostic tests and laboratory exams.
• Perform essential life support (BLS).
• Prepare patients for medical examination and treatment.
• Administer medications and monitor patients for any side effects and reactions.
• Administer treatments such as IV fluids or blood products and monitor patients for any reactions.
• Provide wound care management.
• Assist in medical procedures, invasive or non-invasive, as needed.
• Facilitate the process of safe patient admission and discharge.
• Monitor vital signs of mother and fetus throughout the delivery phase, initiate fetal heart monitoring, perform vaginal exams, interpret fetal heart tones, and determine the frequency, duration, and intensity of contractions.
• Monitor the progress of laboring mothers, interpret fetal heart monitor readings, and notify the physician when appropriate for progress or problems.
• Assist the mother with breathing exercises, pain management techniques, and administer pain medication as ordered.
• Play a predominant role in the preparation, administration, and documentation of medications.
• Prepare the birthing room for delivery using strict sterile technique.
• Prepare mothers for elective or emergency Cesarean Section by following written C-Section preoperative orders of the physician. Provide emotional support to the mother, obtain proper consents and pre-op diagnostic studies, and coordinate a smooth transfer to surgery if indicated.