Skilled Nursing
- Obtaining pertinent medical history.
- Observing and assessing the recipient’s condition.
- Administering of medications, including oral, intravenous, subcutaneous, intramuscular, and nebulized.
- Removal fecal impaction.
- Monitoring feeding tubes (i.e. gastronomy, naso-gastric, or jejunostomy).
- Providing routine bladder care, including foley catheter and supra pubic catheter care.
- Providing ostomy care.
- Monitoring administration of oxygen, blood gasses, and individual response
- Providing rehabilitative nursing.
- Collecting specimens (blood, urine, stool, or sputum) and obtaining cultures as ordered by the recipient’s primary physician.
- Providing wound care ( may include teaching and training of wound care to recipient’s family member/representative
- Assessing of instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL’s) and Activities of Daily Living (ADL’s).
- Changing sterile dressings.
- Monitoring vital signs.
