Traveling nurse vs pediatric nurse

Differences between traveling nurse and pediatric nurse duties and responsibilities

Traveling nurse example responsibilities.

• Manage critically ill patient as a result of trauma, including vent management, ICP monitoring, and CRRT.
• Manage and further help stabilize elective and/or urgent surgical patient in their post-operative, post PACU admission to the floor.
• Manage bedside care per MD orders, administering medications, ensuring patient safety, assisting in ADL care, etc.
• Monitor chemotherapy and administration of oral chemo medication, obtain laboratory specimens to manage client status via central lines.
• Travel nurse who provide care to patients in SICU, MICU, CCU, and CVICU.
• Work in both MICU and SICU
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Pediatric nurse example responsibilities.

• Provide continuous telemetry monitoring and managing multiple patients with multiple high-risk medical conditions, utilizing interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Manage surgical recovery patients including vascular, ENT, GI urological and neurological cases, coronary bypass surgery patients.
• Coordinate care for acute and chronic pediatric oncology patients with an emphasis on family centered care and patient education.
• Certify in ACLS and BLS.
• Provide excellent patient care to children, showing compassion and nurturing while in office.
• Function as a staff nurse in a twelve bed ICU caring for patients with various illnesses.
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