Clinical nursing coordinator vs staff nurse

Differences between clinical nursing coordinator and staff nurse duties and responsibilities

Clinical nursing coordinator example responsibilities.

• Manage team of medical support personnel, orient new clinical employees and develop new guidelines for chemotherapy administration.
• Demonstrate clinical competency and compassion in providing care, using technology, administering medications, performing procedures and managing emergencies
• Care include pre-operative teaching, postoperative follow-up care, liaison between patient, physician, hospital, home health and/or rehabilitation.
• Perform duties of staff nurse; assist in writing nursing care plans; carry out medical care plans; ACLS certify.
• Perform resuscitation procedures according to BLS and ACLS guidelines on life threatening conditions and cardiopulmonary arrest.
• Render professional nursing care to all telemetry patients including critical medical/surgical patients and chronic ventilator patients.
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Staff nurse example responsibilities.

• Manage and further help stabilize elective and urgent care surgical patients in their post-operative/post PACU admission to the floor.
• Accomplish extensive critical care course with EKG interpretation and yearly critical care medication exam.
• Manage patient pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacological and non-pharmacological intervention, monitor patient response and record care plans accordingly.
• Participate in discharge planning including teaching family members and patients wind care and medication administration process after discharge.
• Provide direct nursing care to patients in a variety of settings with an emphasis in critical care and PACU settings.
• Prepare patients for surgery and endoscopy procedures including initiating intravenous lines, physical assessments and administering medications.
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