Responsibilities

As a primary care community health nurse, the duties include:

• Collaborate with physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and the nurse in charge to deliver care within an expanded scope of practice. The community health nurse thoroughly assesses patients of all ages presenting with varied needs, uses critical thinking and clinical decision support resources to isolate priority health needs, negotiates a treatment plan with the client, and collaborates with providers for definitive treatment plans. This includes newborn deliveries, treatment of minor acute illnesses and injuries, and conducting general treatment clinics.
• Implement the nursing process by employing skills in primary survey, assessment, nursing diagnosis, counseling, and health education according to the clinical care pathways.
• Administer interventions and monitor their effectiveness to address clients' psychological, spiritual, and physical co...