Summary of Job Purpose The Registered Nurse (RN) is accountable for providing a safe and comfortable diagnostic / interventional experience for the patient and the patient's support systems in transformational partnership with the Nurse Manager and the interdisciplinary team. As an accountable professional, the Registered Nurse exercises autonomy (the right to undertake a specified action), authority (the power to implement action), and control (the ability to enforce the action in an ongoing and consistent manner) in order to ensure these excellent patient outcomes. Professional accountability is expressed in five areas: practice, quality assurance, competence, research, and resource management. Essential Job Resp