Job Description
Responsible for providing patient care within the Registered Nurse scope of practice utilizing critical thinking skills to manage ill or injured patients during transport between healthcare facilities. Routinely transports patients who are unstable and in critical condition, to facilities where a higher level of care can be given
Principal Accountabilities:
1. Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care.
2. Assumes responsibility for total patient care when in the best interest of the patient's needs.
3. Documents the patient's plan of care using identified nursing diagnoses, expected patient outcomes, and selected nursing interventions.
4. Conveys all pertinent information regarding the patient to the receiving facility.
5. Interprets and implements physician's transport orders.
6. Provides a safe, comfortable and therapeutic patient environment.
7. Monitors the safety and effectiveness of the envir...
Principal Accountabilities:
1. Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care.
2. Assumes responsibility for total patient care when in the best interest of the patient's needs.
3. Documents the patient's plan of care using identified nursing diagnoses, expected patient outcomes, and selected nursing interventions.
4. Conveys all pertinent information regarding the patient to the receiving facility.
5. Interprets and implements physician's transport orders.
6. Provides a safe, comfortable and therapeutic patient environment.
7. Monitors the safety and effectiveness of the envir...