Job Description
Work setting
- Physician's office
- Private clinic
- Health and medicine
- Chronic care therapy center
Tasks
- Assist health care practitioners during examinations or treatments
- Monitor patients and advise physician of any changes in patients' condition
- Address and document symptoms and changes in patients' conditions
- Assess patients to identify appropriate nursing interventions
- Collaborate with members of an interdisciplinary health team to plan, implement, co‑ordinate and evaluate patient care in consultation with patients and their families
- Conduct disease screening
- Dispense and administer medications and treatments as prescribed by a physician
- Operate or monitor medical apparatus or equipment
- Provide nursing care
- Provide supportive counselling and life skills programming
- Supervise licensed practical nurses and ...