Ob/gyn vs staff nurse

Differences between ob/gyn and staff nurse duties and responsibilities

Ob/gyn example responsibilities.

• Manage patient files by making new charts, keying all encounters through ICD-9 coding procedures and posting in patient database.
• Recognize and manage maternal complications: hemorrhage, preeclampsia, endometritis.
• Demonstrate clinical competency and compassion in providing care, using technology, performing procedures and managing emergencies.
• Work in many different specialties including: family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, podiatry, OB/GYN, and cardiology.
• Complete routine pap smears, ob appointments of patients in all stages of pregnancy.
• Work in various practices including family practice, endocrinology, pediatrics, OB/GYN and internal medicine.
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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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