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RN - = 1) 2) 3) 4) 5)
procedures
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1) Assists with direct patient care activities (bathing, transferring, ambulating, feeding, toileting, obtaining vital signs, height, weight, intake and output, housekeeping, transporting, stocking supplies) 2) Includes nurses aides, assistants, technicians, orderlies, nurse extenders, patient care technicians, clinical partners, 3) Scope of nursing practice is limited The RN ALWAYS keeps:
1. acute patients 2. unstable patients 3. all admissions / just returned from procedures / evaluation from results of procedures 4. all discharges / teaching needed 5. teaching 6. assessment 7. nursing judgement