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Major tasks
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Capabilities
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ROLE AS A PROVIDER OF CARE
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Utilizes observational and physical assessment skills and other
available resources to collect and validate client data. Includes
the ability to:
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- Read client chart and other records
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7
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- Communicate with the client
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2,3,6,7
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3,6,7
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5,7,8
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5,7,8
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- Auscultate (listen to) body sounds
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5,6,78
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Establish and maintain effective communication with individual
clients/families and other members of health care team, utilizing
both verbal and nonverbal communication skills
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1,2,3,6,7
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Document client data and changes in the client’s state of adaptation.
Includes the ability to:
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- Accurately record nursing assessments, diagnoses, strategies,
and evaluation of nursing care in the appropriate client records
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1,3
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- Provide accurate and appropriate verbal reports to health
care team members
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1,2,3
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Identify, initiate and complete appropriate nursing strategies.
Includes the ability to:
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- Safely lift, position, and transfer
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1,3,4,5
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- Accurately obtain vital signs
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1,3,4,5,6,7,8
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- Provide for medical asepsis, including handwashing and barrier
techniques
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1,4,5,7
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- Assist client with personal hygiene and meeting nutritional
and elimination needs
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1,3,4,5,7
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- Establish and maintain a sterile field
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1,4,5
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- Safely administer oral, topical, parenteral, and IV medications
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1,3,4,5,7
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- Demonstrate psychomotor skill competency in utilizing equipment
and supplies needed to perform common nursing interventions
and prescribed medical procedures (catheters, dressings, suction
machines, electronic monitors, irrigation equipment, oxygen
equipment, intravenous infusion equipment, and computer terminals)
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1,3,4,5,6,7,8
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- Identify learning needs and develop, implement and evaluate
client teaching plan
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1,2,3,6,7
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React appropriately in an emergency situation
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1,3,4,5,6,7
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ROLE AS A MANAGER OF CARE
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Plan, organize, and implement nursing care for individual and
groups of clients based on priorities.
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1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
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ROLE AS A MEMBER WITHIN THE DISCIPLINE OF NURSING
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Demonstrate accountability for nursing practice within the ethical
and legal framework.
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1
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Capabilities
- Critical thinking ability sufficient for clinical judgment.
- Interpersonal abilities sufficient to interact with individuals,
families and groups.
- Communication abilities sufficient for interaction with others in
verbal and written form..
- Physical abilities sufficient to move from room to room and maneuver
in small spaces.
- Gross and fine motor abilities sufficient to provide safe and effective
nursing care.
- Auditory abilities sufficient to monitor and assess health needs.
- Visual abilities sufficient for observation and assessment necessary
in nursing care.
- Tactile ability sufficient for physical assessment.
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