Assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled patients. May advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management. Licensing or registration required. Includes advance practice nurses such as: nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse midwives, and certified registered nurse anesthetists. Advanced practice nursing is practiced by RNs who have specialized formal, post-basic education and who function in highly autonomous and specialized roles.

Other names for Registered Nurses: Ambulatory Care Coordinator, Anesthesiologist Nurse, Associate Director of Nursing (ADON), Cardiac Care Unit Nurse (CCU Nurse), Central Supply Nurse, Post Anesthesia Room Nurse, Prenatal Nurse, Private Duty Nurse, Psychiatric Nurse, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, Psychiatric Registered Nurse, Public Health Nurse, Public Health Staff Nurse, Receptionist Nurse, Recovery Room Nurse, Registered Health Nurse, Registered Nurse (RN), Registered Nurse Midwife, Registered Nurse Supervisor, Registered Nurse, Certified (RNC), Registered Private Duty Nurse, Registered Public Health Nurse, Relief Charge Nurse, RN BSN (Registered Nurse Bachelor of Science in Nursing), RN Case Manager (Registered Nurse Case Manager), School Nurse, Scrub Nurse, Special Duty Nurse, Staff Nurse, Staff RN (Staff Registered Nurse), Student Nurse, Subacute Rehabilitation Registered Nurse, Supervisor Nurse, Surgical First Assistant, Surgical Nurse, Surgical Supervisor, Telephone Triage Nurse, Transverse Abdominal Muscle Nurse (TRAM Nurse), Trauma Nurse, Traveling Nurse, Triage Nurse, Visiting Nurse, Ward Nurse, Ward Supervisor, X Ray Nurse, Certified Childbirth Educator (CCE), Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM), Certified Nurse Operating Room (CNOR), Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), Charge Nurse, Circulating Nurse, Clinical Nurse, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Clinical Supervisor, Community Health Nurse, Community Health Nurse Supervisor, Consultant Nurse, Consulting Nurse, Coronary Care Unit Nurse (CCU Nurse), County Nurse, Critical Care Unit Nurse (CCU Nurse), Delivery Room Supervisor, Director of Nursing (DON), Discharge Planner, Emergency Department RN (Emergency Department Registered Nurse), Emergency Room Nurse, Emergency Room Registered Nurse (ER RN), Endoscopy RN (Endoscopy Registered Nurse), Evening or Night Nurse Supervisor, Family Nurse Practitioner, Field Nurse, Flight Nurse, Floor Supervisor, Forensic Nurse, General Duty Nurse, Geriatric Care Manager, Geriatric Nurse, Head Nurse, Health Care Coordinator, Health Unit Supervisor, Hospice Nurse, Industrial Nurse, Industrial Registered Nurse, Industrial Staff Nurse, Infection Control Nurse, Intensive Care Unit Nurse, Labor and Delivery Nurse, Lactation Consultant, Legal Nurse Consultant, Licensed Nurse Practitioner (LNP), Life Care Planner, Maternity Floor Supervisor, Maternity Nurse, Medical/Surgery Registered Nurse (Med/Surg RN), Mid Wife, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Nurse (NICU Nurse), Neonatal Nurse, Nurse Anesthetist, Nurse Case Manager, Nurse Clinician, Nurse Consultant, Nurse Coordinator, Nurse Educator, Nurse Manager, Nurse Midwife, Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Receptionist, Nurse Technician, Nurses Supervisor, OB/GYN Nurse (Obstetrics/Gynecology Nurse), Obstetrical Nurse, Obstetrics Nurse (OB Nurse), Obstetrics Scrub Nurse (OB Scrub Nurse), Occupational Health Nurse, Occupational Health Nurse Supervisor, Occupational Nurse, Oncology Nurse, Oncology RN (Oncology Registered Nurse), Operating Room Nurse, Operating Room Registered Nurse (OR RN), Operating Room Supervisor, Patient Care Coordinator, Pediatric Nurse, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Pediatric Registered Nurse, Pediatrics RN (Pediatrics Registered Nurse), Perianesthesia Nurse, Perinatal Nurse, Physical Therapy Nurse, Post Anesthesia Care Unit Nurse (PACU Nurse), Post Anesthesia Care Unit Registered Nurse (PACU Nurse),

• Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.
• Monitor, record and report symptoms and changes in patients' conditions.
• Record patients' medical information and vital signs.
• Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses and conditions.
• Consult and coordinate with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans.
• Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient's condition.
• Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity.
• Direct and supervise less skilled nursing or health care personnel or supervise a particular unit.
• Prepare patients for, and assist with, examinations and treatments.
• Observe nurses and visit patients to ensure proper nursing care.
• Assess the needs of individuals, families or communities, including assessment of individuals' home or work environments to identify potential health or safety problems.
• Instruct individuals, families and other groups on topics such as health education, disease prevention and childbirth, and develop health improvement programs.
• Prepare rooms, sterile instruments, equipment and supplies, and ensure that stock of supplies is maintained.
• Inform physician of patient's condition during anesthesia.
• Deliver infants and provide prenatal and postpartum care and treatment under obstetrician's supervision.
• Administer local, inhalation, intravenous, and other anesthetics.
• Provide health care, first aid, immunizations and assistance in convalescence and rehabilitation in locations such as schools, hospitals, and industry.
• Perform physical examinations, make tentative diagnoses, and treat patients en route to hospitals or at disaster site triage centers.
• Conduct specified laboratory tests.
• Hand items to surgeons during operations.
• Prescribe or recommend drugs, medical devices or other forms of treatment, such as physical therapy, inhalation therapy, or related therapeutic procedures.
• Direct and coordinate infection control programs, advising and consulting with specified personnel about necessary precautions.
• Perform administrative and managerial functions, such as taking responsibility for a unit's staff, budget, planning, and long-range goals.
• Provide or arrange for training or instruction of auxiliary personnel or students.
• Refer students or patients to specialized health resources or community agencies furnishing assistance.
• Consult with institutions or associations regarding issues and concerns relevant to the practice and profession of nursing.
• Work with individuals, groups, and families to plan and implement programs designed to improve the overall health of communities.
• Engage in research activities related to nursing.

• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR protective shields or masks
• Suction kits
• Ophthalmoscopes or otoscopes or scope sets
• Clinical trapeze bars
• Oxygen therapy delivery system products accessories or its supplies
• Flow sensors or regulators or components
• Flow sensors or regulators or components
• Medical gas cylinders or related devices
• Medical head hoods
• Cardiac pacemaker generators or implantable defibrillators or accessories
• Medical oxygen masks or parts
• Patient controlled analgesia infusion pumps
• Patient lifts or accessories
• Pelvis or back traction supplies
• Reflex hammers or mallets
• Peripheral intravenous catheters for general use
• Peripheral intravenous catheters for general use
• Intravenous or arterial tubing adapters or connectors or locks or caps or protectors
• Personal computers
• Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers
• Phacoemulsification or extrusion equipment or accessories for ophthalmic surgery
• Phacoemulsification or extrusion equipment or accessories for ophthalmic surgery
• Hemodialysis dialyzer reprocessing systems
• Ultraviolet UV lamps
• Medical suction sets or kits
• Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers
• Diagnostic or interventional vascular catheters or sets
• Pulse oximeter units
• Sexual assault determination kits
• Reflex hammers or mallets
• Surgical retractors for general use
• Leg traction supplies
• Surgical scalpels or knives or blades or trephines or accessories
• Vascular sequential compression devices or tubing
• Flexible endoscopes or accessories or related products
• Peripheral intravenous catheters for general use
• Hand or finger traction supplies
• Eye charts or vision cards
• Spine boards
• Orthopedic splint systems
• Medical staple or clip removers
• Mechanical stethoscopes or accessories
• Floor grade forceps or hemostats
• Hypodermic needles
• Medical suction or vacuum appliances
• Surgical drapes
• Operating room lighting for surgical field or accessories or related products
• Surgical needle holders for general use
• Suture needles
• Suture removal kits or trays or packs or sets
• Intravenous syringe infusion pumps
• Blood collection syringes
• Respiratory humidifiers or vaporizers
• Tablet computers
• Tuberculin syringes
• Radio frequency transmitters or receivers
• Electrocardiography EKG transmitter or telemetry or accessories
• Vision testing stereoscopes
• Emergency medical services torso immobilizers
• Tourniquets
• Tracheostomy accessories
• Suction kits
• Orthopedic traction hardware or weights
• Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation units
• Transport or mobile multiparameter vital sign units or accessories
• Umbilical catheters
• Upper extremity prosthetic devices
• Urinary catheterization kits or accessories
• Urinalysis test strips
• Phlebotomy trays or accessories
• Vacuum blood collection tubes or containers
• Surgical suction machines or vacuum extractors or ultrasonic surgical aspirators or regulators or accessories
• Perfusion oxygen or hematocrit saturation monitors or accessories
• Intermittent positive pressure breathing IPPB machines
• Medical oxygen masks or parts
• Ventricular assist devices
• Restraint vests and jackets
• Walkers or rollators
• Diagnostic or interventional vascular catheters or sets
• Vascular or compression apparel or supports
• Apnea monitors or accessories
• Therapeutic heating or cooling pads or compresses or packs
• Arterial blood gas monitors or accessories
• Arterial line catheters
• Audiometers or accessories
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
• Medication or pill dispensers or accessories
• Autotransfusion units
• Breathing circuit bags
• Leg traction supplies
• Patient bed or table scales for general use
• Non invasive bi level machines
• Acute care fetal or maternal monitoring units or accessories
• Urological procedure trays or packs or kits
• Blood collection needles
• Blood warming or transfusion systems
• Arm traction supplies
• Canes or cane accessories
• Glucose monitors or meters
• Cardiac output CO monitoring units or accessories
• Cardiac output CO monitoring units or accessories
• Benchtop centrifuges
• Cervical collars or neck braces
• Head or neck traction supplies
• Spill kits
• Surgical clamps or clips or forceps or accessories
• Flexible endoscopes or accessories or related products
• Laser printers
• Long term continuous electrocardiography EKG or holter monitoring systems
• Enteral feeding administration sets
• Continuous passive motion CPM devices or accessories
• Non invasive continuous positive air pressure machines
• Therapeutic heating or cooling blankets or drapes
• Crutches or crutch accessories
• Floor grade forceps or hemostats
• Automated external defibrillators AED or hard paddles
• Hand held vascular dopplers or accessories
• Electrocardiography EKG units
• Electronic blood pressure units
• Electrosurgical or electrocautery equipment or accessories or related products
• Endotracheal tubes
• Enema kits or accessories
• Epidural trays or accessories
• Infusion pump kits or accessories
• Vacuum blood collection tubes or containers
• Enteral feeding infusion pump tubing sets
• Acute care fetal or maternal monitoring units or accessories
• Acute care fetal or maternal monitoring units or accessories
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
• Gait belts for rehabilitation or therapy
• Flexible endoscopes or accessories or related products
• Glucose monitors or meters
• Electrosurgical or electrocautery equipment or accessories or related products
• Emergency medical services head immobilizers
• Lancets
• Floor grade forceps or hemostats
• Medical incision drains
• Intravenous or arterial tubing adapters or connectors or locks or caps or protectors
• Patient care beds or accessories for general use
• Therapeutic heating or cooling blankets or drapes
• Spirometers or its accessories or its supplies
• Patient motion sensors or alarms or accessories
• Clinical incubators or infant warmers
• Intravenous infusion pump analyzers or sensors
• Infusion pump kits or accessories
• Enteral feeding administration sets
• Intraaortic balloon pumps or accessories
• Intracranial pressure ICP monitoring units or accessories
• Hypodermic needles
• Intravenous tubing with catheter administration kits
• Intravenous or arterial tubing administration sets
• Intubation stylets
• Clinical incubators or infant warmers
• Medical incision drains
• Lancets
• Laryngoscopes or accessories
• Restraint straps or buckles or accessories or supplies
• Gastric decompression tubes
• Extremity restraints
• Electrosurgical or electrocautery equipment or accessories or related products
• Lower extremity prosthetic devices
• Sputum collection apparatus or containers
• Respiratory manometer kits
• Electronic blood pressure units
• Manual resuscitators
• Manual resuscitators
• Lap mayo trays or mayo stands for surgical use or accessories
• Clinical hydraulic lifts or accessories
• Respiratory aspirator products or accessories
• Electronic encyclopedias
• Medical tuning forks
• Binocular light compound microscopes
• Medical nasal cannulae
• Suction kits
• Nasogastric tubes
• Nebulizers or accessories
• Medical oxygen masks or parts
• Notebook computers
• Surgical clamps or clips or forceps or accessories

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