Registered Nurse (RN)

• Record patients' medical information and vital signs.
• Administer medications to patients and monitor patients for reactions or side effects.
• Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.
• Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions.
• Provide health care, first aid, immunizations, or assistance in convalescence or rehabilitation in locations such as schools, hospitals, or industry.
• Consult and coordinate with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans.
• Direct or supervise less-skilled nursing or healthcare personnel or supervise a particular unit.
• Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity.
• Instruct individuals, families, or other groups on topics such as health education, disease prevention, or childbirth and develop health improvement programs.
• Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses and conditions.

• Record patient medical histories.
• Monitor patient conditions during treatments, procedures, or activities.
• Administer non-intravenous medications.
• Maintain medical facility records.
• Inform medical professionals regarding patient conditions and care.
• Immunize patients.
• Treat acute illnesses, infections, or injuries.
• Collaborate with healthcare professionals to plan or provide treatment.
• Supervise patient care personnel.
• Manage healthcare operations.

• Peripherally inserted central catheters PICC
• Medical or surgical suction or vacuum appliances
• Acute care fetal or maternal monitoring units
• Endoscopic hemostatic balloons or needles or tubes or accessories
• Electrosurgical or electrocautery equipment
• Medical oxygen masks or parts
• Glucose monitors or meters
• Manual resuscitators
• Reflex hammers or mallets
• Diagnostic or interventional vascular catheters for general use
• Enteral feeding administration sets
• Electronic blood pressure units
• Clinical incubators or infant warmers
• Surgical clamps or clips or forceps
• Cardiac output CO monitoring units
• Hypodermic needle
• Surgical drains or drain sets
• Leg traction supplies
• Intravenous or arterial tubing adapter or connector
• Phacoemulsification or extrusion or vitrectomy equipment for ophthalmic surgery
• Therapeutic heating or cooling blankets or drapes
• Flow sensors or regulators or components
• Infusion pump kits
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
• Enteral feeding infusion pump tubing sets
• Mobile medical services torso immobilizers
• Ventilator accessories
• Intubation laryngoscopes
• Eye charts or vision cards
• Arm traction supplies
• Mobile medical services automated external defibrillators AED or hard paddles
• Intermittent positive pressure breathing IPPB machines
• Patient lifts
• Cardiac pacemaker generators or cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemakers CRT-P
• Restraint vests and jackets
• Gait belts for rehabilitation or therapy
• Medical gas cylinders or related devices
• Respiratory humidifiers or vaporizers
• Pulse oximeter units
• Vascular sequential compression devices or tubing
• Tuberculin syringes
• Medical head hoods
• Respiratory manometer kits
• Intravenous syringe infusion pumps
• Hand or finger traction supplies
• Hand held dopplers
• Lancets
• Non invasive continuous positive air pressure machines
• Clinical hydraulic lifts
• Arterial blood gas monitors
• Spirometers
• Medication or pill dispensers
• Intraaortic balloon pumps
• Vascular or compression apparel or support
• Intracranial pressure ICP monitoring units
• Perfusion oxygen or hematocrit saturation monitors
• Ventricular assist devices
• Endoscopic or surgical light sources
• Colposcopes or vaginoscopes
• Head or neck traction supplies
• Mobile resuscitator or aspirator kits
• Medical acoustic stethoscopes
• Non invasive bi level machines
• Electronic encyclopedias
• Intravenous or arterial extension tubing
• Continuous passive motion CPM devices
• Extremity restraints
• Autotransfusion units
• Gastric decompression tubes
• Cervical collars or neck braces
• Patient bed or table scales for general use
• Enema kits
• Endotracheal tubes
• Surgical needle holders
• Benchtop centrifuges
• Vaginal exam speculas
• Surgical scalpels or knives or blades or trephines
• Holter or wearable EKG monitoring systems or accessories
• Sputum collection apparatus or containers
• Surgical suction machine or vacuum extractor or ultrasonic surgical aspirator
• Radio frequency transmitters or receivers
• Medical or surgical suction sets or kits
• Patient controlled analgesia infusion pumps
• Multiparameter vital sign units
• Intravenous tubing with catheter administration kits
• Vision testing stereoscopes
• Ophthalmoscopes or otoscopes or scope sets
• Restraint straps or buckles or supplies
• Spill kits
• Hemodialysis dialyzer reprocessing systems
• Urinary catheterization kits
• Tracheostomy accessories
• Anesthesia nerve block kit or tray
• Intravenous infusion pump analyzers or sensors
• Pelvis or back traction supplies
• Lap mayo trays or mayo stands for surgical use
• Walkers or rollators
• Sexual assault determination kits
• Urological procedure trays or packs or kits
• Clinical trapeze bars
• Ultraviolet UV lamps
• Heating or drying equipment or accessories
• Surgical retractors
• Vacuum blood collection tubes or containers
• Suture removal kits or trays or packs or sets
• Blood warming or transfusion systems
• Orthopedic splint systems
• Patient motion sensors or alarms
• Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation units
• Patient care beds for general use
• Respiratory aspirator products
• Esophagogastroduodenoscopes or gastroduodenoscopes or gastroscopes
• Urinalysis analyzers
• Sigmoidoscopes
• Therapeutic heating or cooling pads or compresses or packs
• Orthopedic traction hardware or weights
• Colonoscopes
• Personal computers
• Mobile medical services head immobilizers
• Medical syringes without needle
• Skin staple removers or kits
• Oxygen therapy delivery system products
• Medical nasal cannulas
• Electrocardiography EKG transmitters or telemetry devices
• Lower extremity prosthetic devices
• Audiometers
• Canes
• Arterial line catheters
• Apnea monitors
• Surgical drapes
• Nasogastric tubes
• Electrocardiography EKG units
• Blood collection needles
• Upper extremity prosthetic devices
• Crutches
• Nebulizers
• Medical tuning forks
• Notebook computers
• Mobile medical services spine boards
• Intubation stylets
• Tourniquets
• Laser printers
• Suture needles
• Umbilical catheters
• Urinalysis test strips
• Tablet computers
• Binocular light compound microscopes

AFT Nurses and Health Professionals
American Association of Colleges of Nursing
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
American Nurses Association
American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses
American Society of Registered Nurses
Association of periOperative Registered Nurses
Association of Rehabilitation Nurses
Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses
Emergency Nurses Association

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