Responsible for providing comprehensive nursing care utilizing the nursing process and meeting the established standard of nursing practice and performance.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Professional responsibility, performance and practice:
Accepts responsibility for ensuring that his/her nursing practice and conduct meet the standards of professional, ethical and relevant legislated requirements.
Demonstrates the ability to apply the principles of cross-cultural knowledge and culturally sensitive skills in implementing culturally congruent nursing care.
Promotes an environment that enables health consumer safety, independence, quality of life, and health.
Practices nursing in a manner that the health consumer determines as being culturally safe.
Evaluates her/his own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules, and regulations.
Management of nursing care:
Provides planned nursing care to achieve identified outcomes, utilizing appropriate resources to plan and provide nursing services that are safe, effective, and financially responsible.
Undertakes a comprehensive and accurate nursing assessment of health consumers in a variety of settings.
Ensure documentation is accurate and maintains confidentiality of information.
Ensures the health consumer has adequate explanation of the effects, consequences and alternatives of proposed treatment options.
Acts appropriately to protect oneself and others when faced with unexpected health consumer responses, confrontation, personal threat or other crisis situations.
Evaluates health consumer’s progress toward expected outcomes in partnership with health consumers.
Provides health education appropriate to the needs of the health consumer within a nursing framework.
Reflects upon, and evaluates with peers and experienced nurses, the effectiveness of nursing care.
Supports, participates in programs for and maintains professional development.
Attains knowledge and competence that reflects current nursing practice.
Integrates evidence and research findings into practice.
Interpersonal relationships:
Establishes, maintains and concludes therapeutic interpersonal relationships with health consumers.
Practices nursing in a negotiated partnership with the health consumer where and when possible.
Communicates effectively with health consumers and members of the health care team.
Communicates effectively in a variety of formats in all areas of practice.
Collaborates with the healthcare consumer, family, and others in the conduct of nursing practice.
Inter-professional healthcare and quality improvement:
Collaborates and participates with colleagues and members of the healthcare team to facilitate and coordinate care.
Recognizes and values the roles and skills of all members of the healthcare team in the delivery of care.
Demonstrates leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession.
Participates in quality improvement activities to monitor and improve standards of nursing.
Maintain a professional portfolio.
Actively engages in ongoing self-directed learning.
Maintain a current Basic Life Support certificate.
Maintain a current DOH license.
Complete annual staff training requirements.
Follows all Hospital related policies and procedures.
Performs other related duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED
Education: Bachelor degree in Nursing; Associate degree in Nursing with minimum two (2) years course duration and successful completion of the National exam.
Experience: minimum 2 years of work experience post qualification
Preferred:
OB / MS Nurses with critical care or higher level of care experience
Critical care nurses with woman’s health experience
any further education and/or training in OB / MS critical care or higher level of care