Nurse Intern
Cairo, Egypt
(In the clinical area) hours per week spent in function 8-32 hours, percentage of time 20%-80%.Provides patient care, consistent with medical plan of care, for one to three patients. Patient care encompasses the following:Physical assessment, including but not limited to, listening to heart, lung, and bowel sounds with a stethoscope, checking incisions, and observing other factors, depending on individual patient.Receiving and giving verbal reports on each patient at start/end of each clinical experience.Preparing patients for transport to other hospital departments for testing; preparing patients for discharge.Preparing, distributing and administering medications prescribed by physicians.Charting, either handwritten or via data entered into computer.Bathing patients and changing beds.Dressing and feeding patients.Accepting and orienting new patients to assigned unit.Providing individual patient education, in accordance with accepted nursing practice and medical plan of care.Discharge planning: Assessment of home and caretaker at home, consulting home care resources, obtaining equipment, consulting dietary, teaching patient about discharge medications, obtaining physician approval and arranging for any laboratory tests.Utilizes therapeutic communication techniques in order to facilitate the patient’s optimum level of wellness.Administers CPR according to American Heart Association Standards (Basic Life Support for the Health Care Provider) to patients in cardiac arrest, on an emergency basis. Must be available for this function, which takes precedence over all others. Unrestricted movement of both upper and lower extremities, neck, shoulders, back and hips required to perform this function.Interacts with physician regarding patient’s conditions.Provides emotional support and patient education to patients and families.Performs specialized functions, including responding to audible and visual cardiac alarms, wound packing, and interpreting cardiac rhy
