Outpatient Patient Roles

When I went to Outpatient there were many people working. The four staff members are a staff nurse, a charge nurse, a nurse practitioner, and a unit secretary. A staff nurse is in outpatient is responsible of admitting patients, making preparations which includes both patients and the equipments that are necessary, they assist physicians with many bedside procedures, and are responsible of recovering patients. A nurse staff is also responsible of checking charts and orders, monitoring patients and troubleshooting to make sure that there’s no errors. A charge nurse is registered nursed who is responsible for checking charts, solving problems that may occur in outpatient, and to make sure that outpatient is flowing smoothly. Charge nurses are also responsible for and bed assignments.
The nurse practitioner was also responsible for telling the patient how the anesthesia would be administered and also responsible for getting signatures from the physician who was going to administer the anesthesia. The unit secretary is a registered nurse who is responsible for placing the patients in formations in the computer and to draw blood from patients that are in need of a laboratory report. The unit secretary is also responsible for taking orders through the telephones, but the order can’t be for any invasive procedures. This was put in place due to the fact that an order has a high chance of having an error. So all orders that are invasive must be written or be sent through computer in order for it to be placed in the patients