Nurse

Nurses are the staff members involved in treating and caring for patients on wards.

Levels

1. Nursing intern
2. Registered nurse
3. Nurse specialist

Skills

• Patient care: Nurse is capable of providing various types of patient care.

Specializations

• Receptionist: Receptionist represent point of first contact with patient.
• Medical surgery: Medical surgery nurse represent important part of operative surgical teams.
• Clinical specialist: Clinical Nurse Specialist is capable of revealing appearance of patient's symptoms.

Roles

• Patient Care: Patient care nurses are essential to the function of all inpatient wards (observation, regular, HDU and ICU) and will fulfil tasks such as checking on the patient, diagnostics to uncover new symptoms (with the clinical nurse specialist skill) and provide food or prescribed medications during meal and med times.
• Patient Transport: Patient transport is often one of the biggest contributors to poor hospital and efficiency as well as delay in diagnostics or treatments. Nurses assigned to transfer patients as well as provide patient care can become extremely busy, especially in large hospitals where the layout is inefficient as it will require extra time to move patients between wards, diagnosis, imaging or surgery. It is often advisable, especially in high capacity clinics, to have at least one (if not more) nurse assigned to solely transfer patients. For monetary purposes you can use nursing interns with low skills and low wages to act as porters - ideally couple these individuals with the fast and hard worker (no breaks) trait for maximum productivity.
• Nurse - Surgery: To run surgeries in departments - besides emergency - you will need a minimum of three nurses; two nurses to scrub into the surgery and one to transport the patient to the theatre. The scrub nurses must have the medical surgery specialism and ideally will not be assigned to patient care or transfer as this can delay surgeries. When a surgery is scheduled and all staff have been reserved to perform it, the two scrub nurses will proceed to the theatre first, while the third transports the patient. Surgeons (3) will follow shortly after. Once the surgery is completed a nurse will be required to stay with the patient until another returns with a stretcher to transfer back to either the regular, high dependency (HDU) or intensive care (ICU) ward.