Main Responsibilities of a Registered Nurse at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
Cassandra's main responsibility as a Registered Nurse in critical care at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center is "direct patient care," focusing on stabilizing and improving the condition of very sick patients, adhering to California's mandated nurse-to-patient ratios. This involves "assessment, medications, passing, giving," and collaborating with others to guide patients through their illness progression.
Direct Patient Care, Critical Care, Collaboration, Medication Administration, Patient Assessment
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Cassandra Ritter
Registered Nurse
Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
Glendale Community College, California State University, San Marcos , 2010
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Biology & Related Sciences
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Took Out Loans, Worked 20+ Hours in School
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1. Direct patient care is the main responsibility of a Registered Nurse in an acute care hospital setting.
2. Registered Nurses collaborate with other healthcare professionals, perform assessments, administer medications, and monitor patient conditions.
3. In California, nurse-to-patient ratios are mandated by law, limiting the number of patients a critical care nurse can care for simultaneously to ensure quality of care and patient safety
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What are your main responsibilities within your current role?
I work at the bedside in an acute care hospital, so I am doing direct patient care. That is my main responsibility in a nutshell.
It's a lot of collaboration, assessment, medications, and things like that. I work in critical care, so the patients are very, very sick.
In California, there are mandated nurse to patient ratios. So, by law, I can't take care of more than two patients in the critical care setting.
My main responsibility is direct patient care and keeping that person stable or alive. It also involves getting them to the next step in their disease process, whether they're getting better or worse. That's the main goal of my responsibility since I work at the bedside.
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