Recovery room nurse vs home care nurse

Differences between recovery room nurse and home care nurse duties and responsibilities

Recovery room nurse example responsibilities.

• Achieve departmental goals and objectives by instituting SGNA standards and processes for inpatient and outpatient care.
• Care for patients in ICU's, telemetry stepdown units, medical/surgical units.
• Perform admission assessment, monitoring, and discharge planning for adult and pediatric patients undergoing various outpatient surgical procedures.
• Work as a clinical RN in ICU setting for adults.
• Perform and cross train in eye surgery, GYN, and ortho.
• Obtain 12 lead EKG's, FBS and urine pregnancy testing prior to surgery per protocol.
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Home care nurse example responsibilities.

• Manage patient care monitoring vital signs, performing physical assessment, checking patients medications for effectiveness.
• Enter the nursing profession working in an ICU step down unit, with medical and surgical patients.
• Care for many patients with complex issues with compassion and care and enhances the standard of care within the clinical area.
• Provide care for pediatric patients with chronic illnesses and pediatric ventilator and tracheostomy patients.
• Provide home dialysis services to patients receiving rehabilitation in a nursing home setting utilizing NxStage machines.
• Monitor cardiac rhythms and treat per ACLS protocols
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