nurse responsible for general care
Code 2221.2
The nurse responsible for general care (enfermera clínica o enfermero responsable de cuidados generales) plans and delivers nursing care, administers treatments as indicated and coordinates with the health team. Use this Job Dictionary profile to build a general nursing profile distinct from specialties or aide roles.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- Alfabetización en tecnologías de salud
- Análisis de resultados de tratamientos en la plataforma RIS PAC
- Aplicaciones analíticas en salud
- Colaboración con equipos de investigación en salud
- Colaboración interprofesional en un entorno médico
- Comunicación efectiva de las decisiones a pacientes y familias
- Evaluación de impacto en salud y calidad de la atención
- Evaluación y manejo de pacientes con problemas de salud o enfermedades
- Fuentes de datos del ámbito de la salud
- Monitorización remota de signos vitales para pacientes
- Técnicas de entrevista y recolección de información en el campo de la salud
- safe management of medicines
- human anatomy
- person centred care
- disability care
- newborn care
- primary care
- patient autonomy
- nursing science
- surgery
- infection control
- palliative care
- acute care
- dietetics
- evidence-based nursing care
- pharmacology
- human physiology
- geriatrics
- hygiene in a health care setting
- impact of social contexts on health
- innovation in nursing
- health care legislation
- adolescence medicine
- general medicine
- scientific research methodology
- pathology
- pedagogy
- paediatrics
- nursing principles
- psychology
- psychiatry
- biological chemistry
- resuscitation
- public health
- sociology
Skills and competences
- Aplicar normativas en proyectos de salud
- Atender a pacientes con enfermedades crónicas
- Atender a pacientes con enfermedades o problemas de salud
- Comprender consideraciones culturales en atención médica
- Comunicar los riesgos a todas las personas implicadas
- Considerar las preferencias y valores del paciente en la toma de decisiones
- Determinar riesgos que pueden afectar la salud y la seguridad de los pacientes
- Diseñar sistemas de información de salud centrados en el paciente
- Elaborar informes técnicos para audiencias de salud
- Elaborar presentaciones para audiencias de salud
- Entender las necesidades y expectativas de los usuarios en salud
- Garantizar la confidencialidad de los pacientes
- Gestionar registros médicos electrónicos
- Identificar fuentes de datos de salud relevantes
- Realizar análisis de necesidades de salud
- Responder a las necesidades de los usuarios en un entorno de salud
- Usar aplicaciones móviles para seguimiento de pacientes
- Utilizar correctamente términos técnicos utilizados en el campo de la salud
- advise on healthy lifestyles
- analyse quality of nurse care
- implement scientific decision making in healthcare
- apply context specific clinical competences
- implement fundamentals of nursing
- apply nursing care in long-term care
- accept own accountability
- communicate in healthcare
- contribute to continuity of health care
- coordinate care
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- empathise with the healthcare user
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- evaluate nursing care
- diagnose nursing care
- manage information in health care
- empower individuals, families and groups
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- participate in health personnel training
- plan nursing care
- apply person-centred care
- listen actively
- promote inclusion
- promote a positive image of nursing
- provide professional care in nursing
- implement nursing care
- interact with healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- have computer literacy
- initiate life preserving measures
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use electronic health records in nursing
Transversal competences
- deal with emergency care situations
- adapt leadership styles in healthcare
- respond to changing situations in health care
- address problems critically
- apply sustainability principles in health care
- apply organisational techniques
- provide nursing advice on healthcare
- educate on the prevention of illness
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- manage personal professional development
- leadership in nursing
- citizen involvement in healthcare
- first aid
- promote human rights
- provide health education
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- solve problems in healthcare
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
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What to assess for this role
Assess clinical judgment, work under pressure, patient communication and protocol adherence.
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Common questions about this role when you are hiring or writing the job profile.
- What does a general-care nurse do?
- Assesses the patient, runs the care plan, educates and documents, acting as the hub of continuous care.
- Nurse vs nursing aide?
- The nurse owns the professional care plan; the aide supports delegated tasks under regulation and protocol.
- What to assess when hiring?
- Patient safety, shift work fitness and clarity in handoffs between teams.
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences