Per Diem Nurse

Provides professional care to patients utilizing the nursing process in collaboration with other health care team members. Works on a per diem basis.

Responsibilities

• Provides assessment of physical, emotional socio-economic needs and environmental needs of patients and their families.
• Identification of problems utilizing patient data base, nursing process and physician's plan of treatment.
• Develops a plan of care in conjunction with the patient and family based on the patients' needs and consistent with the physician's plan of treatment.
• Observes, evaluates and reports to the physician the patient's physical and emotional condition; reaction to drugs or treatments and changes in the patient's condition.
• Assesses health status through observation, interview and analysis. Counsels patients and families in basic principles of disease self-management and wellness and applies information for related...