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"Registered Nurse"
Job Description - Part 4 - Abilities Needed

Part 1
Duties / Tasks
Part 2
Activities
Part 3
Skills
Part 4
Abilities
Part 5
Knowledge

Abilities Needed for: "Registered Nurse"

1) Problem Sensitivity -- The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.


2) Inductive Reasoning -- The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).


3) Oral Comprehension -- The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.


4) Information Ordering -- The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).


5) Written Comprehension -- The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.


6) Oral Expression -- The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.


7) Deductive Reasoning -- The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.


8) Written Expression -- The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.


9) Speech Recognition -- The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.


10) Speech Clarity -- The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.


11) Near Vision -- The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).


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12) Category Flexibility -- The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.


13) Flexibility of Closure -- The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.


14) Selective Attention -- The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.


15) Arm-Hand Steadiness -- The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.


16) Far Vision -- The ability to see details at a distance.


17) Finger Dexterity -- The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.


18) Perceptual Speed -- The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.


19) Speed of Closure -- The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.


20) Trunk Strength -- The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing.


21) Manual Dexterity -- The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.


22) Time Sharing -- The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).


Job Description for "Registered Nurse" continued here...

Part 1
Duties / Tasks
Part 2
Activities
Part 3
Skills
Part 4
Abilities
Part 5
Knowledge


"Registered Nurse"   Holland / RIASEC Career Code:  NA        SOC:  29-1141.00


 

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