doctor's office nurse

Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years

Work Setting:

• Physician's office
• Private clinic

Tasks:

• Assist health care practitioners during examinations or treatments
• Address and document symptoms and changes in patients' conditions
• Assess patients to identify appropriate nursing interventions
• Collaborate with members of an interdisciplinary health team to plan, implement, co-ordinate and evaluate patient care in consultation with patients and their families
• Deliver immunization programs
• Dispense and administer medications and treatments as prescribed by a physician
• Provide supportive counselling and life skills programming

Supervision:

Certificates, Licences, Memberships, and Courses:

• Licensure as a Registered Nurse by provincial or territorial authorities