Nursing Job Description
Nursing
provides basic nursing care within the Nursing Assistants scope of practice in an out-patient wound care setting.
Nursing Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective nursing job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included nursing job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Provide essential training to the new nursing staff
Ensure that patients are taken care of properly
Maintain cleanliness within the facility
Coordinate with doctors and nursing staff
Evaluate the performance of the nursing staff and provide feedback
Prepare performance reports
Participate in facilities improvements
Identifies information needs and maintains outreach to faculty, staff, and students in the School of Nursing
Cultivates opportunities for collaboration with individual faculty, departments, and the School of Nursing
Consults with graduate students, academic staff, and faculty through scheduled appointments to identify sources, develop research strategies, or review information management
Nursing Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Nursing
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPR, BLS, CNA, ACLS, NRP, PALS, AHA, MA, AZ, BCLS
Education for Nursing
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the nursing job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Nursing, Education, Nursing Program, Graduate, Teaching, Nursing Education, Faculty, School of Nursing, Management, Leadership
Skills for Nursing
Desired skills for nursing include:
Legal issues
RN scope of practice
Applies safety principles as identified within the institution
Medical terminology
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Local
Basic nursing techniques and procedures
Basic medical terminology
Aseptic practices
Cardio-pulmonary techniques
Desired experience for nursing includes:
Management/leadership experience preferred (charge experience minimally)
Advanced computer skills, including Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
Develops and provides SON faculty and students with specialized instruction on library resources and the literature through classes, group training sessions, and library instruction aids such as web-based eLearning modules and guides
Responds to requests for literature searches and other information received via the Information Desk, electronic on-demand reference service, and journal access troubleshooting service as scheduled
Proactively collaborates with the Informationist team to identify, design, and/or introduce new information products and services
Evaluates and recommends resources for the Library collection to support the School of Nursing user community
Nursing Examples
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Nursing Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of nursing. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for nursing
- Serves as a working Coordinator assisting staff with proper bed placement
- Covers scheduling gaps to run the maintain the bed management department 24/7
- Maintains and records compliance and regulatory standards of employees
- Responsible for the management of an electronic bed board and reservation process that included scheduled and unscheduled admissions, discharges and transfers
- Compiles department data used for analysis, trending, and planning
- Maintains current knowledge of policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements
- Attends Daily AM Bed rounds
- This position is focused specifically on the population who are frail and chronically ill during their transition out of the hospital to improve care and reduce admissions
- Provide supervision and direction for the navigators at both NMC and HMC who are assigned to manage the care and the health of a population of patients with specific diagnosis
- Facilitate ease of access to all community health resources
Qualifications for nursing
- Ability to build and sustain effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues, faculty and students, administrators, and researchers and staff at affiliated institutions
- Evidence of organizational, project, and time management skills and demonstrated ability to set priorities, and meet deadlines and project goals
- Demonstrated proficiency and capabilities with personal computers and productivity software
- Commitment to fostering a diverse educational environment and workplace
- Capacity to thrive in an ambiguous, future-oriented environment and to respond effectively to changing needs and priorities
- Knowledge of current trends and issues in academic libraries and relevant subject disciplines
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of nursing. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for nursing
- Delivering instruction in class, lab, and/or clinical setting
- Participating in institutional and CCNE compliance and reporting
- Teach courses/labs/clinicals in accordance with college and departmental policies and procedures
- Prepare and submit timely grade reports for student performance
- Facilitate a quality learning experience, live or simulated, for the assigned student group
- Communicate consistently with lead course faculty and staff
- Actively participates in school functions
- Utilizes learning resources (online programs, professional publications, professional organizations)
- Teaching lecture, lab and clinical components of courses within the Associate of Science in Nursing program
- Teaching lab and clinical components of Associate of Science in Nursing program courses
Qualifications for nursing
- MSN or other related master's degree preferred
- Knowledge and skills in management, staff development, budget and financial management, effective verbal and written communication, quality outcomes and performance improvement
- Current California RN License, Advanced Fetal Monitoring, BCLS, ACLS, and NRP required
- Master’s Degree in Nursing, if Master’s Degree is in related field, Baccalaureate in Nursing is required
- Minimum 2-5 years of experience in leadership/management roles is required
- Member/Involvement in professional organizations is desired
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of nursing. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for nursing
- Plans, directs, and evaluates the overall nursing care and functions in their departments
- Identifies and resolves issues affecting the delivery of patient care services in department
- Responsible for the promotion of staff development through recruitment and retention activities
- Provides clinical instruction and demonstration of nursing skills and procedures to students
- Observes, evaluates and provides feedback to students’ return demonstration, and skills and procedures
- Assigns patients to student care based on the clinical objectives of that particular session
- Evaluates and assesses student competencies
- Plans, reviews and corrects students’ clinical assignments
- Plans and conducts student conferences
- Attends scheduled orientation sessions
Qualifications for nursing
- Earned graduate degree from an accredited institution
- For Deans in a skilled environment such as Culinard or the Golf Academy, a bachelor’s degree will be considered provided the candidate has the necessary technical skills and experience
- Nursing student currently enrolled in BSN Nursing program preferred
- BSN from an accredited school of nursing required
- NYS RN license and registration required
- National Certification in area of practice required
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Our company is hiring for a nursing. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for nursing
- Direct supervision of nursing staff and auxiliary personnel
- Overseeing all nursing related activities
- Generating and publishing all nursing personnel scheduling & job assignment for the Health Center
- Working cooperatively with the Medical Director to coordinate all health care team member's schedule and locations for any given work day (including MD's, DO's, NP's, and PA's)
- Authority is granted to the Nursing Coordinator to ensure that necessary provider and nurse coverage is achieved for the Health Center on any given work day
- Reviewing nurse patient care plans, all other related documentation, and communications
- Perform other duties as assigned which may change from time to time
- On an ongoing basis, evaluate nurse employee's work performance in accordance with established goals, job standards, and job descriptions
- Provide direct correction, counsel, and encouragement appropriate to each staff member regarding performance deficiencies to improve specific and/or overall job performance
- Conduct annual reviews for nursing staff in a respectful, effective, and timely manner
Qualifications for nursing
- HCAHPS/EPIC knowledge preferred
- Your scope of duties will include critical care clinical competence, incorporating physical and emotional assessments, age specific competency, critical thinking skills, and educating patients and their family members regarding their plan of care and clinical pathway
- A qualified faculty member in Nursing is one who has an earned master's degree in Nursing from a regionally accredited institution, (BSN will be considered as long as working toward or willing to work toward an MSN)
- Is a Registered Nurse licensed in Indiana
- Has two years of directly related work experience
- Must have strong working knowledge of current technologies appropriate to are of instruction
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a nursing. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for nursing
- Remain proficient and fully capable of rendering nursing care in all functional areas of the Health Center
- Assessing patient needs through interviewing, recognizing, and interpreting symptoms and conditions in order to determine individual response to treatment programs and current medications and to gather and relay accurate reports to the healthcare provider about the patient's condition and/or progress
- Administration of medications as prescribed
- Understanding patients' health conditions and instructing them regarding self-care techniques and preventative strategies
- Formulating nursing diagnoses in order to outline a nursing care plan specific to the patient's needs to assure continuity of medical, physical, and emotional care during the treatment process
- Cardiac nurse navigator will oversees the clinical care of the adult and older outpatient population that are high risk for rehospitalization with a diagnosis of heart failure, atrial fibrillation and myocardial infarction patients
- The nurse navigator will coordinate care with the interdisciplinary team and continue to monitor patients while at home through telecommunications
- The navigator will collaborate with physicians to establish and maintain compliance with medication and treatment regimens for cardiac patients
- Identifies learning needs of heart failure patients
- Participates in care model developments within the nurse navigator team
Qualifications for nursing
- Patient care experience in a healthcare setting preferred
- Minimum of 5 years management level experience, coupled with a demonstrated skill-set in Labor & Delivery services management
- Within one semester of initial appointment, must have a written academic plan of study for completion of a Master's degree in nursing, and
- Provides ongoing documentation (each semester) demonstrating matriculation towards completion of a Master's degree in nursing, and
- Continued employment of a person who does not hold a Master's degree in nursing shall be contingent upon documented progress towards their approved academic plan
- Knowledge and understanding of simulated learning experiences, including the operation of simulators