If you must get sick, a Nurse is the nicest thing that can happen to you. Nurse come in all sizes, shapes, colors and ages. Efficiently cheerful, they will rustle past you many times a day.
Joseph James C. Flauta, RN


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Registered Nurse

March 26, 2008

  The title of Nurse has many applications in modern medicine. Each specific type of nurse has a different set of responsibilities: Registered nurses (RNs), Nurse practitioners, Head nurses or nurse supervisors, Licensed practical nurses (LPNs), Nursing home nurses, Home health nurses, and Nursing aides. While there are many shared tasks, these nursing professions require special skills, and different levels of patient interactions. We’ve compiled the many nursing job descriptions below.

  Registered nurses (RN) comprise the largest group of healthcare workers. Most RNs work directly with patients and their families. They are the primary point of contact between the patient and the world of health care, both at the bedside and in out-patient settings. RNs perform frequent patient evaluations, including monitoring and tracking vital signs, performing procedures such as IV placement, phlebotomy, and administering medications. Because the RN is much more regular contact with patients than are physicians, the RN is usually first to notice problems or raise concerns about patient progress.

RNs also develop the day-to-day nursing care plans both in hospital, and for care after discharge by families and visiting nurses.


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