Student nursing assistant vs nurse extern

Differences between student nursing assistant and nurse extern duties and responsibilities

Student nursing assistant example responsibilities.

• Insert straight catheters and manage Foley catheters.
• Manage memory unity within facility.
• Provide high-quality patient care within surgical, acute-care, rehabilitation and nursing-home settings.
• Work with patients in a chemical dependent rehabilitation program and assess psychiatric patients in a therapeutic milieu floor.
• Provide high-quality resident care and assist with ADL.
• Obtain experience in performing 12 lead EKG tests.
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Nurse extern example responsibilities.

• Organize and manage regular clinics involving external physicians, including ophthalmology, ENT, Med/Surg, orthopedics, and podiatry professionals.
• Assist patients with activities of daily living, obtain vital signs and assessments, and perform 12 lead EKG's.
• Perform initial assessments on patients in outpatient oncology clinic; recording vital signs, significant medical history and chief complaints.
• Shadow to adult medical-surgical nurse staff- head-to-toe assessment, assist with medication administration, computer charting with co-signor, and telemetry monitoring
• Obtain ACLS, to ensure patients receive the best quality of care.
• Obtain ACLS certification and then float to all critical care areas as needed.
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