Principal Accountabilities:

1. Promotes and restores patient's health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families; delegates to appropriate team members.

2. Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand care requirements.

3. Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.

4. Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching patient, friends, and family to understand the condition, medications, and self-care skills; and answering questions.

5. Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; and following philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.

6. Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.

7. Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations; and calling for assistance from health care support personnel.

8. Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols; medication administration and storage procedures; and controlled substance regulations as needed.

9. Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records accurately and timely.

10. Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.

11. Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential

12. Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops and participating in professional societies as required.

13. Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information and participating in team problem-solving methods.

14. Take patient calls and triage symptoms as well as patient needs and escalate appropriately.

15. Report normal and abnormal results to patients as requested by providers.

16. Work closely with pharmacies, labs, pathology, insurance, etc to provide timely patient care.