Nurse epidemiologist vs student nurse

Differences between nurse epidemiologist and student nurse duties and responsibilities

Nurse epidemiologist example responsibilities.

• Participate in manage care activities to produce health change, specifically providing diabetes education and lifestyle counseling in chronic disease areas.
• Administer and monitor TB and anergy panel skin tests.
• Assess risk for tuberculosis and if skin test are warranted.
• Review and document infections by CDC NHSN criteria in a prescribe quality standards and within require timelines.
• Perform qualitative review and assessment of thousands of patient records for presence of nosocomial infection as defined by CDC.
• Complete documents for state fund Medicaid programs, admission into community nursing and group home facilities and other community resources available.
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Student nurse example responsibilities.

• Manage surgical recovery patients including vascular, ENT, GI urological and neurological cases, coronary bypass surgery patients.
• Experience in plastics, general, podiatry, ortho, gyn, GI and pain services
• Administer intravenous infusions, PO, IM, IVP, SubQ prescriptions and monitoring patients for adverse reactions.
• Provide competent nursing care within scope of practice on the Med-Surg, and ICU floor as a student nurse.
• Experience inserting IVs, total patient care, charting, and logging with SRHS computer system on multiple MED-SURG units.
• Provide general patient care ADL's, administering dressing changes, providing nurses notes, and other aide duties for patient.
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