What are tasks that nurses can do with or with out a doctors order

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What I Mean is out of all the tasks that nurses do inserting catheters, giving enemas, inserting iv, drawing blood, intramuscular injections, passing medication, and so on and many more. What are nurses allowed to do with a doctors order and what are nurses allowed to do without a doctors order? Can someone give me a list?

Maybe the op's primary language is not English? Jeez

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.

Duplicate threads merged and moved to pre-nursing student forum.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

I think the OP is asking legitimate questions and we need to remember that AN is an international site and hosts members from all over the world....just like the US has people from all over the world who come here to get an education.

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what does it mean to access a port in nursing

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.
what does it mean to access a port in nursing

It refers to acting a central access vascular port device that is present in a major vein often in the chest wall. A port is placed for a variety of reasons--poor veins, certain types of medications such as chemo or long term antibiotics or other IV treatment , extended IV access. Sterile or clean technique is necessary as the veins where a port is placed are near the heart/central circulation.

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Supposedly I wanted to work in the ER, ICU, the OR, Labor a delivery. Do I have to specialize to work on those units. Do I need a BSN to work on those units and additional training. I seen youtube videos what the ICU is like. It looks like everyone is hooked up to an IV and ventilators. What are good units in the hospital to start working at if you were a new grad nurse.

When you go to nursing school you will receive a basic nursing education and have lectures, labs, and rotations in all areas of inpatient care on the floors -- adult medical nursing, adult surgical nursing, pediatrics, obstetrics, and depending on your school, some psych, public health, and perhaps an optional rotation where you can choose to get extra exposure. You might get an option to observe in an OR or other special procedures area; you might get time to observe in L&D, ICU, or ER. When you graduate you will take a licensure examination; when you pass it, your state will issue your RN license.

BSN is becoming more and more the requirement for getting work. You can get an associate's degree first, but many hospitals require the BSN to hire you, so if you have a choice (and it sounds as if you are still in high school) take all the science courses you can and apply to BSN programs.

Most new grads are recommended to start work in an adult medical/surgical unit, because they will get a broad exposure to common elements of all nursing care-- assessment, medications, planning, care for a wide variety of conditions and injuries, diagnostics, and the like. A very few go direct to a specialty area like L&D, OR, ER, or ICU.

Could you tell us a bit about yourself so we can give you answers that would be helpful?

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Well I am 19 years old turning 20 in a month. I am a certified Nursing assistant working in a nursing home. I love my job helping people and I am interested in the stuff involving in nursing. I am pretty compassionate and empathetic especially for a male. I would like to be an RN and I would also like to working in a hospital as a nurse sometime in my life. I know BSN is preferred to work in hospitals but not all hospitals do not hold out a full BSN staff and some 2 year RN do work in hospitals. I live in a suburb area though and some hospitals are around so it is not near like a big city or anything

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There are many ASN-degree RNs working, quite true. The associate's degree was originally developed as an alternative to the diploma schools of nursing when more BSN programs were just getting going. They weren't supposed to become the be-all, end-all of nursing ed, but a lot of people took (and take) them, and so there are a lot of ASN/ADNs out there.

However, if you pull the want ads from the Sunday papers for a few weeks you will note that almost all the hospitals say "BSN preferred" or "...required." Many people think they will take the ADN/ASN, get licensed, then work on their BSNs while they are working and earning money. That might work if 1) they can get a job, and 2) they find that their first year of practice is a piece of cake allowing them to put the requisite effort into a college program (not fricking likely).

I am not trying to get the whole debate over the basic entry into practice here-- anyone who is tempted can search for and go to myriad threads all over AN to join the fun-- just pointing out the reality in many, if not most, parts of the country.

You will have a long career as a nurse. Get started with the best education you can get.

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I hear that hospital are mostly BSN preferred but I hear that not all hospitals can hold out on a complete BSN staff so there are ADN nurses working at hospitals. Everyone at work who are trying to do RN are doing them at community colleges so I think the ADN is not that bad of a route.

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The tiny detail here is IF you are UNABLE to reach the doctor. I believe the posters are saying they go ahead and call 911, BEFORE calling doc and get in touch with doc and get order AFTER they have called ambulance

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