Job Overview
- Provides professional nursing care to residents through the proper administration of prescribed medications and treatments.
- Assigns duties to nursing assistants based on residents' needs and available staff.
- Observes, records, and reports any change in resident’s condition.
- Notifies residents' physician as necessary to report a change in condition, medication requests, or changes and to verify physician orders.
- Monitors the medication and treatment cart, nurses' station, and medication room to ensure that expired medications are properly disposed of and narcotics are counted per policy and regulations.
- Transcribes written physician orders accurately to Medication Administration Record.
- Completes laboratory requests as ordered by a physician.
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