Psychiatric nurse practitioner vs palliative care nurse practitioner

Differences between psychiatric nurse practitioner and palliative care nurse practitioner duties and responsibilities

Psychiatric nurse practitioner example responsibilities.

• Lead quality assessment of client's QA / QC processes, organizations, and test environments.
• Manage outpatient pacemaker and ICD interrogations and remote transmission follow-ups.
• Manage pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment of diabetes and provide prescriptions and education before discharge from the hospital.
• Obtain necessary certifications, including child abuse clearance, CPR, and nonviolent crisis intervention training.
• Perform rapid triage, psychiatric nursing assessment and medication administration.
• Examine or conduct laboratory or diagnostic tests on patients to provide information on general physical condition and mental disorder.
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Palliative care nurse practitioner example responsibilities.

• Evaluate and manage physical, intellectual, emotional, social & spiritual needs of veterans with serious illnesses.
• Manage acute rehabilitation and skil care inpatient population following orthopedic surgery until discharge.
• Prepare monthly re-certification audits for bi-weekly IDT meeting with MD.
• Utilize several different EMR systems for all of the various patient locations.
• Administer intravenous therapy, blood transfusions, total parenteral nutrition, EKG testing.
• Answer patient calls chart in EMR note and direct patient to MD or correct recipient.
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