Registered Nurse -Antenatal BFHI Educator

Description

Essential Job Functions and Key Accountability

• Professional responsibility, performance and practice:
• Accepts responsibility and accountability for all actions and decision making within scope of practice as defined by DOH
• Adheres to the Code of Conduct for DOH, and the organization
• Completes mandatory and unit specific competencies and demonstrates ongoing compliance with appropriate evidence.
• Develops and maintains own professional portfolio.
• Takes responsibility for own professional development and actively engages in ongoing self-directed learning.
• Obtains accredited and non-accredited Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) Units in compliance with DOH requirements.
• Complete mandatory annual staff training requirements.
• Participates in self and peer evaluation including reflective practice
• Maintain any qualifications, including license and certificates such as Basic Life Support and other mandatory training within established timeframes.
• Complying consistently with all organization policies, procedures and practices relevant to position.
• Demonstrates leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession.
• Management of nursing care:
• Ensure you carry out your work in a way that is person/patient focused and meets professional standards
• Provides 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 a patients needs in an organized and systematic manner.
• Ensures accurate and timely documentation, and maintains confidentiality of all information.
• Upholds patients’ rights to make informed choices.
• Advocates for patients and their families in all clinical activities
• Acts appropriately to protect oneself and others when faced with unexpected patient and/or family responses, confrontation, personal threat or other crisis situations.
• Evaluates patients' response to nursing interventions and progress toward expected outcomes in partnership with the patient, their family, and the health care team.
• Provides appropriate health education and information to the needs of the patient and their family.
• Effectively establishes, maintains and concludes therapeutic relationships with patients and their families receiving healthcare.
• 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 safe nursing care.
• 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, and relevant statutes, rules, and regulations.
• 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.**Antenatal BFHI Education Role Specifications:**
• Liaise with the physicians to encourage and refer mothers to attend the antenatal BFHI education sessions.
• Counseling Skills: Utilise listening and learning skills in conversation with a mother. Use skills for building confidence and giving support when in conversation with a mother.
• Describe to the mother the breastfeeding support services available in the healthcare facility and the community.
• Engage with the mother in antenatal conversation about breastfeeding
• Explain to the mother implementation of immediate and uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact.
• Discuss with the mother and family how breastfeeding works.
• Describe with the aid if a dummy breast and pictures how to latch a baby correctly onto the breast; and shows the mother the different ways to hold a baby for breastfeeding.
• Explain to a mother how to recognize and respond to a baby’s feeding cues.
• Demonstrate to a mother the steps of expressing breast milk by hand, using a dummy breast and doll.
• Describe to a mother how some difficulties with breastfeeding and how she can prevent or resolve them.
• Support the non-breastfeeding mother, after informed decision, with safe ways of infant feeding.
• Collect and record data on the education given to the mother and her family in the electronic module for Step 3 of the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding. Participate in the data analysis and develop subsequent action plans as necessary.
• Discuss the importance of attending Lactation review after discharge for care continuity.
• Participate in implementing and enforcing the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk substitutes in the hospital.
• Communication and collaboration:
• Facilitates effective communication between the patient, family and the interdisciplinary healthcare team, as required.
• Practices nursing in a negotiated partnership with the patient where and when possible.
• Communicates effectively with patient and members of the health care team.
• Communicates effectively in a variety of formats in all areas of practice.
• Collaborates with the patient, family, and others in the conduct of nursing practice.
• 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.
• Establishes and maintains professional boundaries with patients and members of the healthcare team.
• Upholds the organizations customer service standards at all times.
• Make a personal contribution towards effective and efficient working relationships within your team, and with other departments.

Qualification

Experience