Private duty nurse vs advanced registered nurse practitioner

Differences between private duty nurse and advanced registered nurse practitioner duties and responsibilities

Private duty nurse example responsibilities.

• Manage Ventriculostomies and interpret ICP and CVP readings.
• Manage patient care monitoring vital signs, performing physical assessment, checking patients medications for effectiveness.
• Communicate with medicaid, and insurance companies to ensure patients receive appropriate care and payment of procedures and medication.
• Provide daily assessments, ADL's medication management and any necessary medical treatments.
• Monitor ventilator and oxygen saturation regularly; offer medication, treatments, and tracheostomy care.
• Provide care to home bound individuals with tracheostomy, ventilator assistance patients, administration of medications, referrals
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Advanced registered nurse practitioner example responsibilities.

• Manage patients requiring rehabilitation with multiple co-morbidity conditions.
• Provide continuous telemetry monitoring and managing multiple patients with multiple high-risk medical conditions, utilizing interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Coordinate medical care during inpatient drug and alcohol detoxification and rehabilitation.
• Care include physical examination, ordering appropriate labs/x-rays/medication, wind repair and forming an assessment/diagnosis to disposition the patients.
• Complete annual examinations including providing women s health examinations and preventative health care education to patients from diverse backgrounds.
• Facilitate communication between specialists in neurology, neurosurgery, radiation, oncology, medical oncology, facial plastics, and others.
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