Private duty nurse vs staff nurse

Differences between private duty nurse and staff nurse 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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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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