COLLEGE OF NURSING

ROLES OF A HEAD NURSE

A head nurse initiates and maintains work schedules for the nursing staff in her department. In addition to assigning duties and organizing shift patterns, she ensures medical records are securely stored and accurately maintained.

Patient care Management Head nurse must have a body of scientific knowledge and proper competencies to be able to use the five steps of nursing process and ensure that each staff nurse is able to use nursing process to provide patient care
ROLES OF A MEDICATION NURSE

Nurses play an important part in ensuring medication safety because they are the last line of defense against medication errors; the last to double check that the right amount of the right medication goes to the right patient. To reduce the inevitable vulnerabilities in the medication delivery system and to keep patients from harm. ROLES OF A STAFF NURSE

assess needs, plan, implement and evaluate evidence-based nursing care; provide healthcare advice through educating patients, carers and families; carry out clinical nursing procedures; work collaboratively with other members of the health and social care team; supervise other staff and students; contribute to the dissemination of good practice by participating in teaching and learning opportunities.