Typical work activities would include, but are not limited to, assessing patient nursing care needs and preparing, implementing and evaluating the nursing care plan, giving skilled nursing care and prescribed treatments to patients, identifying physical and emotional illness of patients through observations and analysis of records, coordinating plans of care with nutritionists, social workers, physical therapists, physicians and other professional health workers, counseling and guiding families in the prevention of illness, etc. The work involves responsibility for providing skilled nursing care requiring substantial specialized judgment in accordance with a prescribed nursing care plan.