Functions Of Nurses

HEADNURSE 1. Supervises and evaluates the quality of patient care through frequent rounds 2. Oversees the action of assigned staff nurse, medication nurse and chart nurse. 3. Familiarized and take care of the emergency cart. 4. Takes note of the special procedures for the patients within the unit. 5. Keep superiors informed regarding the problems and issues in patient care with the nursing unit. 6. Participates in the selection of nursing staff for the unit. 7. Presents changes or innovations to staff in a positive manner. 8. Provides conducive climate for work and maintains effective communication within the unit department. 9. Makes the 24 hrs. Nursing report of the unit. 10. Checks daily time record of the staff.

STAFF NURSE 1. Should know the patient very well. 2. Should always establish rapport with the patient. 3. Assess the patient’s needs for care based on the patient’s history, results of physical examinations, diagnosis, and laboratory exams. 4. filling up the request admissions 5. Oversees the activities of the 3rd year nursing students. 6. Make part of the endorsement for the shift. 7. Proper endorsement (detailed, clear, and updated) of the patient’s incoming shift. 8. demonstrate god nursing in caring of patients 9. Acts as a role model to fellow students. 10. Makes a nursing care plan for the patient he/she handled.

MEDICATION NURSE 1. Must know the 10 rights in giving the medication. 2. Must know the drug action, side effects and nursing consideration of each medications. 3. Must know the color coding of the medication cards followed by the institution. 4. Always brig medication tray with you in giving medication. 5. Should always establish rapport with the patient. 6. May give medication only with the supervision of clinical instructor or staff nurse on duty. 7. always double check with the doctors order 8. Make a drug study as a student’s clinical assignment. 9. Must know the computation concisely and table of equivalents 10. Document all medications given legibly as countersigned by respective clinical instructor or staff nurse on duty CHART NURSE 1. 2. 3. 4.

Record all the vital signs taken on the TPR sheet on the patients chart. Must know the normal values of BP, PR, RR and Temperature. Reports intake and output Makes a narrative report of the vital signs recording system for the shift then submit to the assigned student head nurse.