Practice Nurse Job Description
Practice nurse
provides anesthesia services including but not limited to general, local, monitored anesthesia care and regional anesthesia.
Practice Nurse Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective practice nurse job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included practice nurse job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Provide bedside care to patients, including personal hygiene maintenance
Record the patient's vital signs (including blood pressure, pulse, and respiratory rate)
Collect patient’s health information
Relay information between patients, registered nurses, and physicians
Test patient’s blood sugar levels
Be responsible for urinary catheter insertion and care
Oversee wound care and dressing changes
Manage ostomy site care and maintenance
Monitor for changes in patients
Ensure the patient's medical records are properly charted, documented, and maintained
Practice Nurse Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Practice Nurse
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPR, ACLS, BLS, NCCPA, ADM, BC, CDE, DOT, ACHPN, NP
Education for Practice Nurse
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the practice nurse job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Master's and Collage Degree in Nursing, Graduate, School of Nursing, Education, College of Nursing, Department of Education, Nursing Education, Health, Science, Medical
Skills for Practice Nurse
Desired skills for practice nurse include:
Excel
NYUMC Service Standards and incorporates into the performance of responsibilities
Access and PowerPoint
Initiates emergency procedures
Microsoft Office programs
Access
PowerPoint
Local
Monitored anesthesia care and regional anesthesia
Specialized area of clinical nursing
Desired experience for practice nurse includes:
Eligibility and benefits
Processing authorization requests
Patient visits
Phone and personal interaction with all patients
Coordinate the continuum of care and reduction of time to treatment across multiple modalities
Collaborate with patient and oncology clinical team to identify next steps in treatment plan, identifies gaps or barriers to care and provides links to Health System and community resources
Practice Nurse Examples
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Practice Nurse Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a practice nurse. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for practice nurse
- Drawing up medications
- Taking and recording vitals
- Performing ad-hoc duties as required
- Perform health screenings, some health education, and medication instruction
- Provide preventative health and wellness instruction
- Take on ad-hoc projects and responsibilities as required
- Care for G-tube
- Trach
- Insulin patients
- Conduct EKGs
Qualifications for practice nurse
- Ensure patients are afforded best care possible
- Ensure that healthcare treatment in the school is available for students
- Complete student vitals
- Complete charting
- Administer physician-prescribed medicine
- Complete basic wound care
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Practice Nurse Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of practice nurse. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for practice nurse
- Take medical histories
- Enter information into computer systems
- Perform vital signs/intake
- Administer medications and vaccines
- Perform vision and hearing tests
- Document clinical transactions on patient's electronic and medical records
- Complete school and camp forms
- Perform PPD implants and read results
- Complete vital signs/intake
- Perform vision/hearing tests
Qualifications for practice nurse
- Document clinical transactions on patient's electronic medical record
- Complete school/camp forms
- Perform PPD implants and reads results
- Record vital signs/intake
- Administer medication and vaccination
- Work alongside Nurse and Physicians
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Practice Nurse Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a practice nurse. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for practice nurse
- Serve as emotional support for the child
- Act as an advocate for the child
- Handle medical procedures
- Complete charts
- Collaborate with the healthcare team
- Ensure optimal healthcare services are readily accessible to patients
- Obtain, verify and record health history of patients
- Prepare equipment to efficiently draw blood
- Monitor inventory of medical supplies and orders when necessary
- Report malfunctioning machinery to Administration
Qualifications for practice nurse
- Licensed Practice Nurse
- Knowledge of medical policies and protocols
- 1+ year in an LTC Facility
- Promote wellness by providing patient education materials and communicating physician advice and/or instructions
- Provide physician support by checking height
- Provide basic patient care by administering medications
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Practice Nurse Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a practice nurse. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for practice nurse
- Follow established procedures for infection control
- Monitoring and providing total patient/resident care within an assigned nursing unit
- Participating in the development of an individualized interdisciplinary plan of care
- Implementing the individualized interdisciplinary plan of care according to biophysical, psycho-social and age specific needs
- Monitoring resident outcomes and reports abnormal findings to Nurse Management
- Administering specified medications according to established standards and policies
- Documenting patient's status, according to unit specific procedure
- Perform in-house labs, collect specimens for outside labs, and perform quality control in accordance with organizational protocols
- Initiate follow-up as necessary
- Complete health teaching as indicated by physician, diagnosis and/or inquires by patient
Qualifications for practice nurse
- Current New York State Licensed Practical Nurse License
- Active Licensed Practice Nurse
- Active Practice Nurse license
- Practical Nurse license
- Current New Jersey LPN license
- Collect data on patients under supervision of the Registered Nurse or provider
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Practice Nurse Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of practice nurse. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for practice nurse
- Assisting Nurse Practitioners with patient admissions
- Providing patient education and documenting activities
- Maintaining schedule and charts, coordinating care with referral sources and other duties to ensure excellent clinical care
- Participating in ongoing education regarding substance use and mental health disorders
- Plan resident care
- Ensure quality care is provided to patients
- Provide nursing care throughout various departments
- Collect specimens for outside labs
- Perform quality control in accordance with organizational protocols
- Initiate follow-up when necessary
Qualifications for practice nurse
- Provide health education to patients
- Monitor a patient's vital signs and symptoms
- Deliver medication and implement other treatments
- Administering patient meds/treatments
- Collaboration with RN on patient plan of care
- Providing oversight of nursing assistant