Public health staff nurse vs staff nurse for emergency department

Differences between public health staff nurse and staff nurse for emergency department duties and responsibilities

Public health staff nurse example responsibilities.

• Participate in manage care activities to produce health change, specifically providing diabetes education and lifestyle counseling in chronic disease areas.
• Administer and interpret TB skin testing and provide educational in-services on TB disease/prevention to area health care agencies.
• Administer treatments including wound/ incision dressing, catheter, tracheotomy and colostomy care to patient following physician's instructions.
• Provide nurse case management and education for individuals with infectious diseases that may threaten the community including tuberculosis and hepatitis.
• Conduct cardiovascular monitoring, catheters; mechanical ventilators; maintain a positive bedside manner.
• Manage surgical recovery patients including vascular, ENT, GI urological and neurological cases, coronary bypass surgery patients.

Staff nurse for emergency department example responsibilities.

• Maintain current professional practice standards, complete education in telemetry, and attain ACLS certification.
• Manage nursing interventions for stabilization of critically ill patients and continually monitor, intervene as needed in their care.
• Maintain BLS, ACLS and TCRN certifications.
• Stabilize patients in crisis using BLS and ALS protocols.
• Monitor patients for irregular rhythms; interpret rhythms strips and EKG's.
• Assign team members and coordinate rapid response team during transfer of patients to the ICU or tertiary hospitals.
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