Nephrology nurse vs clinic registered nurse

Differences between nephrology nurse and clinic registered nurse duties and responsibilities

Nephrology nurse example responsibilities.

• Manage medication inventory and hospital supplies; attend hospital meetings and ensure patients have appropriate level of nursing care.
• Manage surgical recovery patients including vascular, ENT, GI urological and neurological cases, coronary bypass surgery patients.
• Reinforce diet restriction and fluid limitation, dressing changes, catheter care, removal of staples, collecting lab specimens.
• Participate in the quarterly review of emergency/disaster procedures with patients and other staff.
• Provide diabetes education, including correct usage of insulin, prevention of diabetic complications, and teaching healthy diabetic lifestyle.
• Pet examination, vaccination preparation and administration, triage, compounding medications, surgical assisting, radiography, animal restraint.
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Clinic registered nurse example responsibilities.

• Manage patient pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacological and non-pharmacological intervention, monitor patient response and record care plans accordingly.
• Perform both admissions and discharge of patients within the CICU as well as transferring patients to ICU or other units.
• Perform nursing functions in critical care units including ER, MICU, CCU, SICU in various hospitals and medical centers.
• Provide patient education that includes information about diagnosis, plan surgical procedures, post-surgical care, and physical rehabilitation procedures.
• Provide involved detail clinical evaluations of patients within the acute rehabilitation center along with needs for transition of care after discharge.
• Provide prenatal care education to ob triage patients to aide in fetal well-being.
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