Nurses care for patients in the following ways:
- Nurses help bring babies into the world, and they take care of new moms before and
after childbirth.
- Nurses help sick and injured people get better, and they help healthy people stay healthy.
- Nurses perform physical examinations.
- Nurses give medications and treatments ordered by doctors.
- Nurses are concerned with the emotional, social, and spiritual conditions of their patients.
- Nurses teach and counsel patients, as well as family members, and explain what they
can expect during the recovery process.
- Nurses provide health care teaching and counseling in the community.
- Nurses observe, assess, evaluate, and record patients' conditions and progress, and they
communicate patient condition information to doctors and other members of the health
care team.
- Nurses help patients and families determine the best mix of health and social services -
hospice, home care, rehabilitation, physical therapy, and others.
- Nurses design and complete quality assurance activities to ensure appropriate
nursing care.
- Nurses help terminally ill patients die with dignity, and they help family members deal
with dying and death.
Nurse Extern Opportunities
Under the immediate supervision of a Registered Nurse provides general nursing care
and coordinates patient care for a group of patients. Cares for infants through geriatric
age groups. After evaluation of competency, the Nurse Extern is allowed to perform all
the duties of a nursing assistant as well as other technical duties which have been
learned in a nursing education program for which competency has been validated by a
faculty member.
Nursing is a career with infinite variety and rewards.
At Grady Memorial Hospital in Chickasha, salaries for RN's begin at $35,256 and go
up to $52,998.
Oklahoma Health Career Information is the place to go for more information about nursing
and other health care career choices. You will also find help to get started in these careers.
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