Carbondale, IL30+ days ago
Examples of Duties: • carries out or assists with diagnostic procedures, which may include identifying and recording subjective symptoms, such as pain; observing and recording objective symptoms, such as body excreta and discharge, temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, and changes in condition of body; collecting specimens for the laboratory; taking height and weight; measuring and recording intake and output of fluids; and performing certain laboratory and diagnostic testing such as urine test, acetone specific gravity, and may result in scheduling additional procedures, test, surgeries, and hospital admissions and obtain appropriate insurance authorization. • escorts patient from waiting room and prepares patient for examination and procedure, charts and reports nursing care activities performed and reports all observations made, obtains the basic assessment data and brief history from patient and documents the information in accordance with prescribed clinical procedures.