Recovery room nurse vs medical surgical staff nurse

Differences between recovery room nurse and medical surgical staff 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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Medical surgical staff nurse example responsibilities.

• Manage patient pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacological and non-pharmacological intervention, monitor patient response and record care plans accordingly.
• Provide comprehensive nursing care to a variety of in-patient medical, surgical and telemetry patients.
• Coordinate and provide direct patient care for cardiac/telemetry, surgical, orthopedic, respiratory, geriatric and pain management patients.
• Obtain CPR certification for the first time.
• Assist with patients that have acute active GI bleeding.
• Administer rapid response and cardiac arrest care as a part of resuscitation team.
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