Typical duties of a General Nurse include:
- Assessing and planning nursing care requirements
- Providing pre- and post-operation care
- Monitoring and administering medication and intravenous infusions
- Taking patient samples, pulses, temperatures and blood pressures
- Writing records
- Supervising junior staff
- Organising workloads
- Providing emotional support to patients and relatives
- Tutoring student nurses
- 24-hour shift work can be a requirement of the job.
Nurses plan and provide medical and nursing care to patients in hospital, at home or in other settings who are suffering from chronic or acute physical or mental ill health.