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Roles and Responsibilities of Nurses in Various Departments

The roles and responsibilities of nurses vary depending on their department. Staff nurses in general wards are responsible for admitting, discharging, and transferring patients, as well as maintaining patients' hygiene, comfort, nutrition, safety, documentation, and more. Outpatient department nurses aim to provide quality care, modern diagnostic and treatment techniques, and total patient satisfaction. Their roles include direct patient care, charting, education, and communication. Operating theatre nurses ensure proper equipment and supplies are available before and during surgery, assist the surgeon and anesthesiologist, and transfer patients after surgery. In community settings, nurses take on roles like direct caregiver, educator, counselor, advocate, manager, advisor, coordinator, leader, health

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Roles and Responsibilities of Nurses in Various Departments

The roles and responsibilities of nurses vary depending on their department. Staff nurses in general wards are responsible for admitting, discharging, and transferring patients, as well as maintaining patients' hygiene, comfort, nutrition, safety, documentation, and more. Outpatient department nurses aim to provide quality care, modern diagnostic and treatment techniques, and total patient satisfaction. Their roles include direct patient care, charting, education, and communication. Operating theatre nurses ensure proper equipment and supplies are available before and during surgery, assist the surgeon and anesthesiologist, and transfer patients after surgery. In community settings, nurses take on roles like direct caregiver, educator, counselor, advocate, manager, advisor, coordinator, leader, health

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ROLES AND

RESPONSIBILITIES OF
NURSES IN VARIOUS
DEPARTMENTS
The staff nurse is responsible for:
• To admit, discharge and transfer patients
• Maintain personal hygiene and comfort
• Provide psychological support
• Nutritional needs
• Maintain a clean and safe environment
• Maintain intake and output
• Maintain nurse’s notes
RESPONSIBILITIES

Direct
patient care Ward
management
OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT
OBJECTIVES OF OPD
• To provide adequate quality care
• All modern techniques for investigation and treatment
• Creating facilities for total patient satisfaction
• Good public relation
DEFINITION
• OPD is a place where a patient goes first when he feels ill Patients
who do not need overnight hospitalization are admitted in the
outpatient department
IMPORTANCE OF OPD
Visited by a large section of the community
First point of contact between patient and hospital staff
A good OPD service reduces the load on in-patient services
It is a place for implementing preventive & promotive health
activities.
FUNCTIONS OF OPD
• Provide a major source of specialist medical opinion
• Early diagnosis, curative, preventive & rehabilitative care
• Screening for admission to the hospital
• Follow up care & care after discharge
• Promotion of health by health education
• Rendering of preventive health care
TYPES OF OPD SERVICE
1. Centralized Outpatient Services :
• All services are provided in a compact area which includes all
diagnostic and therapeutic facilities being provided in the same place.
2. Decentralized Outpatient Services :
• Services are provided in the respective departments.
OTHERS
General Outpatient
Emergency Outpatient
Referred Outpatient
ROLE OF A NURSE
Direct care
Charting
Education
communication
OPERATION THEATRE
• The OT nurse is responsible for the patient at the time of surgery.
• The circulatory nurse helps in assisting and arranging things and the
anesthesiologist.
• The scrub nurse helps in assisting the surgeon.
Before surgery
• Ensuring proper equipment
• Positioning devices
• Counting sharps and sponges along with scrub nurse
• Pulling medications such as local and antibiotics
• Reviewing patient’s charts and history
• Surgical consent
During surgery
• Charting
• Opening needs supplies to the sterile field
• Getting additional supplies
• Assisting anesthesiologist
• Handling specimens and cultures
• Performing first and final counts
After surgery
• Calling post-op, PACU for arrival
• Transferring patient onto the stretcher
• Assisting in extubating if needed
• Helping in transferring patients to PACU
COMMUNITY SETTING
ROLES
• Direct care
• Educator
• Counsellor
• Advocate
• Manager
• Advisor
• Co-Ordinator
• Observer
• Leader
• Health planner
• Epidemiologist
• Prevention of illness
• Researcher
Settings for CHN Practice
1. Home
2. Community health centers
3. Schools
4. Occupational health settings (business and industry)
5. Residential institutions: Older age residences
6. Parishes or charitable mosques related organizations
7. Community at large

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