What does a emergency receptionist do in the emergency room?

Answer 1

Specific critical care nurse duties and responsibilities include:

• Assessing a patient's condition and planning and implementing patient care plans
• Treating wounds and providing advanced life support
• Assisting physicians in performing procedures
• Observing and recording patient vital signs
• Ensuring that ventilators, monitors and other types of medical equipment function properly
• Administering intravenous fluids and medications
• Ordering diagnostic tests
• Collaborating with fellow members of the critical care team
• Responding to life-saving situations, using nursing standards and protocols for treatment
• Acting as patient advocate
• Providing education and support to patient families

Critical care nurses may also care for pre- and post-operative patients. In addition, some serve as case managers and policy makers, while others perform administrative duties.

Answer 2

Er (emergency) nurses are also known as, "Flight Nurses." They work with the people that are under serious conditions. They also may transfer these patients from a helicopter or an airplane to the hospitals and also from hospital to hospital from accidents and such. They do these activities in an area equipped for higher levels of care.

Answer 3

Their job is to make the patient comfortable. They will also give the patient their IV and any medication that they may need while they are in the ER.

Answer 4

A nurse in an emergency room may be responsible for diagnosing patients. They may also help treat patients in the emergency room.