Nursing Responsibilities: What Nurses Do That Doctors Don't

Nursing tasks that doctors cannot perform:

- Administer medications

- Monitor vital signs

- Provide patient education

- Perform physical assessments

- Develop nursing care plans

- Implement nursing interventions

- Evaluate the effectiveness of nursing interventions

- Collaborate with other healthcare professionals

- Advocate for patients' rights

- Provide emotional support to patients and their families

- Provide physical care, such as bathing and dressing

- Manage pain

- Insert and remove catheters

- Start IVs

- Draw blood

- Give shots

- Perform CPR