Medicine Healthcare
Nurse
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A Registered Nurse provides patient care, assesses patients’ conditions, administers medications, and collaborates with other healthcare professionals. They work in various healthcare settings, including hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes.
RNs work in a variety of healthcare settings, including hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and private practices. They assess and monitor patients’ conditions, develop care plans, and collaborate with physicians and other healthcare professionals to ensure that patients receive high-quality care.
Common tasks
| Task | Related trait(s) |
|---|---|
| Assessing patients’ conditions | Clinical Precision Patient-Centered Empathy Clinical Precision Empathetic Understanding Clinical Responsiveness |
| Keeping records of patient histories medications and symptoms | Clinical Precision Clinical Precision |
| Performing and interpreting diagnostic tests and monitoring patients | Clinical Precision Clinical Precision Clinical Responsiveness |
| Developing care plans and administering medications | Clinical Precision Patient-Centered Empathy Clinical Precision Clinical Responsiveness |
| Educating patients and their families about their medical conditions and care plans | Emotional Resilience Empathetic Understanding |
| Managing staff | Equitable Leadership Confident Leadership |
| Keeping in touch with developments in their field | Continuous Learning |
Soft skills measured by TraitForward
| Trait | No of Questions | Cronbach’s alpha (α) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Precision | 7 | 0.73 | |
| Can they consistently perform clinical procedures with meticulous attention to detail and adherence to established protocols? | |||
| Patient-Centered Empathy | 7 | 0.80 | |
| Can they genuinely connect with patients’ emotions and perspectives, demonstrating compassion while tailoring care to individual needs and concerns? | |||
| Emotional Resilience | 7 | 0.80 | |
| Can they maintain their composure and effectively manage their emotions when faced with stressful situations, difficult patients, or high-pressure medical emergencies? | |||
| Clinical Precision | 9 | 0.74 | |
| Can they consistently make careful, evidence-based clinical decisions while maintaining meticulous attention to detail in high-pressure healthcare environments? | |||
| Empathetic Understanding | 6 | 0.80 | |
| Can they accurately perceive and appropriately respond to patients’ emotional states and unspoken needs? | |||
| Equitable Leadership | 11 | 0.76 | |
| Can they demonstrate fairness and impartiality when providing care to diverse patient populations and leading healthcare teams? | |||
| Confident Leadership | 6 | 0.77 | |
| Can they naturally assume leadership responsibilities with confidence, decisively guiding teams and taking initiative in critical healthcare situations? | |||
| Continuous Learning | 5 | 0.78 | |
| Do they demonstrate a commitment to expanding their medical knowledge and actively seek opportunities to learn new healthcare practices and techniques? | |||
| Clinical Responsiveness | 6 | 0.74 | |
| Can they quickly assess clinical situations, make sound decisions, and respond effectively when patient conditions change or emergencies arise? | |||
Find out the psychometric properties for the Nurse Traitforward questionnaire