Registered Nurse: Patient-Centric Care Leader

<p>Essential Job Functions and Key Accountability<p><strong>Professional Responsibility, Performance and Practice:</strong></p><ul><li>Accepts responsibility and accountability for all actions and decision making within scope of practice as defined by DOH.</li><li>Adheres to the Code of Conduct for DOH, and the organization.</li><li>Completes mandatory and unit specific competencies and demonstrates ongoing compliance with appropriate evidence.</li><li>Develops and maintains own professional portfolio.</li><li>Takes responsibility for own professional development and actively engages in ongoing self-directed learning.</li><li>Obtains accredited and non-accredited Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) Units in compliance with DOH requirements.</li><li>Complete mandatory annual staff training requirements.</li><li>Participates in self and peer evaluation including reflective practice.</li><li>Maintain any qualifications, including license and certificates such as Basic Life Support and other mandatory training within established timeframes.</li><li>Complying consistently with all organization policies, procedures and practices relevant to position.</li><li>Demonstrates leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession.</li></ul><p><strong>Management of Nursing Care:</strong></p><ul><li>Ensure you carry out your work in a way that is person/patient focused and meets professional standards.Practices nursing in a manner that the health consumer determines as being culturally safe.</li><li>Provides nursing care to achieve identified outcomes, utilizing appropriate resources to plan and provide nursing services that are safe, effective, and financially responsible.</li><li>Undertakes a comprehensive and accurate nursing assessment of a patients needs in an organized and systematic manner.</li><li>Ensures accurate and timely documentation and maintains confidentiality of all information.</li><li>Upholds patients’ rights to make informed choices and advocates for patients and their families in all clinical activities.</li><li>Acts appropriately to protect oneself and others when faced with unexpected patient and/or family responses, confrontation, personal threat or other crisis situations.</li><li>Provides appropriate health education and information to the needs of the patient and their family.</li><li>Accepts responsibility for ensuring that his/her nursing practice and conduct meet the standards of professional, ethical and relevant legislated requirements.</li><li>Demonstrates the ability to apply the principles of cross-cultural knowledge and culturally sensitive skills in implementing culturally congruent safe nursing care.</li><li>Participates in supporting, developing and teaching colleagues to enhance nursing care outcomes. Attains knowledge and competence that reflects current nursing practice. Integrates evidence and research findings into practice.</li></ul><p><strong>Communication and Collaboration:</strong></p><ul><li>Facilitates effective communication between the patient, family and the interdisciplinary healthcare team, as required.</li><li>Communicates effectively with patient and members of the health care team.</li><li>Collaborates with the patient, family, and others in the conduct of nursing practice.</li><li>Collaborates and participates with colleagues and members of the healthcare team to facilitate and coordinate care.</li><li>Recognizes and values the roles and skills of all members of the healthcare team in the delivery of care.</li><li>Establishes and maintains professional boundaries with patients and members of the healthcare team.</li><li>Upholds the organizations customer service standards at all times.</li><li>Make a personal contribution towards effective and efficient working relationships within your team, and with other departments.</li></ul></p>#J-18808-Ljbffr