Ensure safety precautions are followed. The nurse anticipates, recognizes, and manages situations that place patients at risk for adverse events.
Effectively apply infection control measures to ensure personal and patient safety, educate patients and families about infection control measures and participate in interprofessional activities to promote infection control best practices.
Ability to administer medications safely and effectively to various patient populations.
Ability to assess/reassess pain levels based on disease process and patient population using validated tools and assessment.
Knowledge of non-pharmacologic and complementary interventions to manage discomfort and promote comfort in patients.
Manage patients during the pre-procedure and post procedure periods as well as assist during procedures being performed outside the surgical suites.
Assess nutritional status of patients in a variety of patient settings and populations, able to identify and optimally manage nutritional needs.
Consistently focus all nursing care on the holistic needs (physical, emotional, and spiritual) of patients and families.
Provide nursing care that considers the patient's unique physiologic, psychologic, spiritual, cultural, and sexual/gender beliefs/practices as a requirement of competent nursing care. Understand your own biases and beliefs/practices and how those might impact nursing care is a critical component of inclusive nursing care.
Provide effective education for patients, family members, and/or care givers based on identified needs and learning preferences.
Develop and implement clinical programs addressing identified health promotion needs in the community and counsel patients on required behavioral modifications to achieve overall health.
Apply palliative care and end-of-life care practices, inclusion of the patient/family in decision making, and improved quality of life.
Able to assess/reassess nursing care needs by patient population using the nursing process/clinical judgment.
Collaborates with the interprofessional team to develop, implement, and evaluate the patient's plan of care.
Facilitate care coordination and transition management across the continuum in collaboration with the interprofessional team to achieve optimal outcomes.
Accurately, fully and objectively document findings, procedures, nursing interventions/care and evaluation in a timely manner.
Effectively use technology and clinical informatics to support the nursing process and the delivery of patient care.
Effectively communicates verbally, non-verbally, and in writing with patients, families, interprofessional team members and across departments/levels of the organization. Communication is respectful, effective, efficient, timely and accurate.
Thinks critically to evaluate patient condition, including subtle changes, anticipate clinical outcomes and manage them appropriately. Also includes consideration of the care environment, unit staffing and workload.
Contributes to a healthy practice environment that is safe, empowering, and personally/professionally satisfying
Knowledge of, and adherence to, state mandated scope of practice for registered nurses, the Scope and Standards of Medical-Surgical Nursing Practice and a commitment to ethical practice as per the American Nurses Association Code of Professional Ethics
Demonstrates leadership and integration to advance quality care through collaboration, communication and learning to integrate quality throughout care to achieve patient and organizational objectives.
Ability to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate evidence-based practice.
Delegates appropriate tasks and activities to the care team based on scope of practice and competence, and supervise the care team in their conduct of tasks and activities in the delivery of patient care.
Actively participates in career development relationships to continue to grow professionally and to contribute to the professional growth of colleagues in areas where the nurse has greater experience, knowledge or expertise.
Participates effectively in shared decision-making teams, support team members, provide constructive feedback to self and peers, actively seek professional opportunities, and engage in professional development as appropriate to your level of expertise.
Clinical leadership: Manages the structure and processes required to obtain positive clinical, quality and safety outcomes.
Staff leadership: Manages direct reports to ensure the appropriate resources are available to meet the practice's standards of nursing practice.
Responds to internal and external incidents/disasters in accordance with organizational policy and procedures, and assigned role.