Staff Nurse-OPD Surgical- Surgical Clinic
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About the Role
Responsible for health education, patient evaluation, evidence-based practice, and leadership in nursing, requiring a Bachelor degree in nursing and valid license.
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Overview
- Health teaching and health promotion:
- Utilizes teaching strategies appropriate to the individual patient's condition and learning needs.
- Uses health promotion to support patients and families in developing skills that promote, maintain, or restore healthy lifestyles and self-management support.
- Seeks opportunities for feedback and evaluation of the effectiveness of the strategies used, including teach back.
- Ensures that all components of the health education, relevant to the clinical condition, is documented in the patient health record.
Evaluation
- Evaluates progress toward attainment of outcomes.
- Evaluates the patient/family's understanding of and response to the plan of care.
- Utilizes systematic and ongoing assessment data to revise nursing diagnoses, outcomes, and the plan of care.
- Involves the patient, family and healthcare team members in the evaluation process.
- Provides a comprehensive clinical handover/report as required to ensure patient safety.
- Attends patient care rounds, communicates, and updates the attending healthcare provider on changes in the patient s condition.
- Communicates with the patient care team about ongoing changes in patient s plan of care and unit activity
- Documents the reassessment of patient status; patient and family participation and understanding; and the rationale for any revision in the plan of care.
Evidence-based Practice and Research
- Integrates evidence and research findings into practice.
- Utilizes current evidence-based nursing knowledge, including research findings, to guide and evaluate practice.
- Participates in evidence-based and research activities at various levels appropriate to the nurse's level of education and position.
- Shares evidence-based and research findings with healthcare team members.
- Participates in performance improvement projects for the evaluation and improvement of clinical practice
Leadership
- Demonstrates leadership behaviors in practice settings, across the profession, and in the community.
- Functions as a professional role model promoting a positive, team-based, organized, and safe work environment.
- Coordinates and supervises delegated activities to assure completion and serve as a resource for other healthcare team members
- Demonstrates critical thinking in priority setting and decision making in response to patient needs.
- Pursues informal and formal leadership opportunities
- Participates actively in organizational shared decision-making situations that improve the nursing practice, organizational performance, and outcomes.
- Supervises practical nurses and junior staff and student nurses to ensure the provision of safe and effective patient care.
Accountabilities
- Applies the principles of professional codes of ethics that ensure individual rights in all areas of Practice:
- Maintains a professional and therapeutic nurse-patient relationship and serves as a patient advocate assisting patients and families in developing skills for self-advocacy.
- Speaks up to question healthcare practices as appropriate for safety and quality improvement.
- Discloses any observed illegal or incompetent practices and decisions made by potentially impaired health care staff per organizational policy.
- Evaluates own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, rules and regulations.
- Considers factors related to effectiveness, cost, environmental health, and impact on practice and organization.
- Utilizes current resources related to standards of care, policies and procedures, and patient needs.
- Navigates and utilizes electronic resources for information retrieval, communication, and documentation.
- Evaluates factors related to patient safety, effectiveness, availability, and cost when determining practice options.
- Promotes a practice environment that reduces environmental health risks for staff.
- Communicates environmental health risks and exposure reduction strategies to healthcare consumers, families, colleagues, and communities.
- Demonstrates a commitment to continuous learning and education for self and others and mentors healthcare team members for the advancement of nursing practices, the profession, and quality healthcare.
- Oversees and responds to all levels of emergencies according to the organizations policies and procedures.
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