Preceptor vs staff nurse

Differences between preceptor and staff nurse duties and responsibilities

Preceptor example responsibilities.

• Provide continuous telemetry monitoring and managing multiple patients with multiple high-risk medical conditions, utilizing interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Perform blood draws and specimen collection on patients for phlebotomy Preceptorship course.
• Monitor patients on EKG, are able to detect abnormal rhythms.
• Provide emotional support with patients before pending surgery, and provide advocacy by calling doctor to answer the pt's questions.
• Observe students during surgery, gather supplies need for surgical procedures and set up.
• Assist with ADL's, medications, blood transfusions, chemotherapy infusions, education, admissions, discharges, and charting.
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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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