Staff nurse for emergency department vs clinical research nurse

Differences between staff nurse for emergency department and clinical research nurse duties and responsibilities

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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Clinical research nurse example responsibilities.

• Maintain accountability and compassion while providing care, administering medications, performing procedures and managing emergencies.
• Demonstrate clinical competency and compassion in providing care, using technology, administering medications, performing procedures and managing emergencies
• Command of CPR team until a doctor arrives; defibrillate and assess patients' condition.
• Administer pain medication through intravenous, oral or subcutaneous injection to recovering patients in the immediate post-operative period of surgery.
• Provide complete nursing care for patient populations undergoing procedures relate to abdominal surgery, multiple trauma, oncology, and peritoneal dialysis
• Provide skil nursing care for patients spanning the pediatric medical spectrum including hematology, immunology, oncology, neurology and endocrinology.
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