nurse

• Restores and promotes patient's health by completing the nursing process. • Collaborates with physicians and multidisciplinary team members. • Provides physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families. • Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with patients and their families. • Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families. • Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and hospital or 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. • 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. • Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential. • Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; calling for repairs; and evaluating new equipment and techniques. • Maintains nursing supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level. • Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops and participating in professional societies. • Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information and participating in team problem-solving methods. • Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed