Job Description:

Supervises, guides, and/or instructs the work assignments of subordinate staff. Provides general direct nursing care to injured, ill, convalescent or disabled individuals. Care includes providing medical treatments, administering medication and giving injections.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

Administers prescribed medications or starts intravenous fluids and notes times and amounts on clients’ charts.
Answers clients’ calls and determines how to assist them.
Evaluates nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other health-care team members as necessary.
Helps clients with bathing, dressing, and personal hygiene, moving in bed, and standing and walking.
Measures and records clients’ vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration.