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New Idaho Law Changes Primary Care Access for Minors
New Idaho Law Changes Primary Care Access for Minors
Provides highly skilled, compassionate and professional nursing care within the Emergency Department, Acute/Swing Bed, and Outpatient care setting; coordinates care planning with other disciplines. Provides care that meets the psychosocial, physical and general aspects of quality patient care. Determines priorities of care based on physical and psychosocial needs of patients, as well as factors influencing patient flow through the system. Communicates with physicians regarding changes in patient’s status, symptomatology and results of diagnostic studies. Responds quickly and accurately to changes in condition or response to treatment.
• Provides the best possible nursing care by planning, organizing, and directing the nursing functions of patients in the unit
• Initiates and implements patient care plan
• Makes nursing assignments appropriate to skill level of employees
• Maintains acceptable standards of patient care
• Identifies problems and guides personnel to their solutions
• Accurate and promptly implements physician's orders
• Administers medications and intravenous solutions skillfully and correctly
• Maintains the standards of accurate and complete recording and reporting
• Arranges to have needed supplies and equipment on hand
• Supports and enforces infection control policies and procedures
• Keeps the CNO informed of patients, needs, and problems in the nursing unit