Promotes and restores patient s health by completing the nursing process collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members providing physical and psychological support to patients friends and families and supervising assigned team members Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand care requirements Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional psychological and spiritual support to patients friends and families Promotes patient s independence by establishing patient care goals teaching patient friends and family to understand the condition medications and selfcare skills and answering questions Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards making or recommending necessary adjustments and following hospital and nursing division s philosophies and standards of care set

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