REGISTERED NURSES: Administer nursing care to ill or injured persons. Licensing or registration required. Include administrative, public health, industrial, private duty, and surgical nurses, nurse practitioners.

• Administer injections
• Administer medications/treatments
• Analyze medical data
• Analyze patient activity
• Apply biological theory
• Apply clinical problem solving techniques
• Apply counseling techniques
• Apply human anatomy & physiology knowledge
• Apply human developmental disease theory
• Apply human disabilities theory
• Apply human growth/development theory
• Apply infectious materials procedures
• Apply institutional care procedures
• Apply interpersonal communication techniques
• Apply life support procedures
• Apply medical lab techniques
• Apply nursing practices & procedures
• Apply patient care procedures
• Apply patient observation procedures
• Apply personal care procedures
• Apply research methodology to health care
• Apply sanitation practices to health care
• Apply uniform medical tests or procedures
• Assist in examining & treating medical patients
• Care for mentally ill patients
• Chart medical data
• Collect blood samples
• Collect clinical data
• Comprehend body response variations
• Comprehend the composition of drugs
• Conduct patient assessments
• Draw blood
• Hand instruments/materials to doctor
• Inventory medical supplies and instruments
• Lift/transport ill/injured persons
• Maintain medical records
• Make tentative medical diagnoses
• Manage personnel/human resources
• Perform routine medical tests
• Perform routine medical treatments
• Plan/organize work
• Prepare medical treatment room
• Prepare patient reports
• Prepare patients for exams & treatments
• Prepare patients for tests
• Provide medical treatments to patients
• Read/understand operating manuals
• Recognize childhood diseases
• Set up patient care equipment
• Set up/administer incubators in hospitals
• Set up/administer oxygen tents in hospitals, homes & institutions
• Take vital signs
• Teach medical self care
• Understand & use medical terminology
• Understand drug products
• Understand the composition of drugs
• Understand the properties of drugs
• Use behavior modification with institutionalized/developmentally disabled
• Use clinical radiation safety procedures
• Use correct surgical setup & support techniques
• Use investigation techniques
• Use medical equipment in direct patient care
• Use medical office procedures
• Use nursing terminology
• Use office equipment in support of medical practice/services
• Use personal/vital care procedures in institutional living facility
• Use pharmacological terminology
• Use principles of gerontology
• Use respirators & respiratory therapy equipment
• Use spreadsheet software
• Weigh patients
• Work as a team member