Registered Nurse (R.N.)

Education

College/CEGEP.

Work Setting

Nursing home/home for the aged. Long term care center.

Responsibilities

• Assist health care practitioners during examinations or treatments.
• Engage in community program development.
• Monitor patients and advise physician of any changes in patients' condition.
• Participate in community needs assessment.
• Address and document symptoms and changes in patients' conditions.
• Assess patients to identify appropriate nursing interventions.
• Collaborate with members of an interdisciplinary health team to plan, implement, coordinate and evaluate patient care in consultation with patients and their families.
• Conduct disease screening.
• Deliver health education programs.
• Deliver immunization programs.
• Dispense and administer medications and treatments as prescribed by a physician.
• Engage in research activities related ...