Staff Nurse - Pediatric Inpatient Ward TP
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Provides patient-centered pediatric care, performs assessments, collaborates with teams, and ensures safety and education while maintaining clinical competencies.
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Overview
- Provides age-specific patient-centered care utilizing the nursing process.
- Performs patient assessment using appropriate, problem-focused, and age-specific assessment techniques.
- Performs continual critical care assessment of patient and family's physical and psychological needs.
- Involves the patient, significant others, and health care providers in the plan of care when appropriate.
- Collaborates with a multi-disciplinary team to provide patient care.
- Coordinates and plans critical care/clinical pathway, and prioritizes care, based on individual needs. Revise the care plan as necessary.
- Initiates appropriate transfer plan.
- Recognizes subtle cues to anticipate potential problems.
- Documents all relevant data in the medical record according to hospital/departmental standards.
- Ensures availability and maintenance of supplies and equipment needed for the unit and patient care.
- Performs clerical duties when needed.
- Assumes responsibility for meeting Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCIA) required mandatory education (e.g. fire, safety, infection control and others).
- Ensures clinical competencies as well as life support courses are up to date.
- Participates in staff meetings and unit committees/projects.
- Participates in developing and achieving unit goals.
- Maintains a safe environment for patients and staff.
- Performs safe handling and administrating of narcotics/Controlled and Semi-Controlled Drugs and documentation as directed by policies and procedures.
- Ensures completion of unit competencies i.e. pain management, and utilization of Emergency department devices.
- Maintains clinical and professional competency based on the latest research and established standards of practice.
- Completes yearly, the critical care nursing competencies (basic).
- Participates in unit-based Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) activities (data collection, CQI teams, incident reporting, customer complaint reporting, medication error reporting etc.).
- Participates in ongoing educational activities.
- Maintains mandatory educational requirements.
- Performs additional duties when required.
Unit Specific
- Encourages the use of the playroom.
- Abides by the standards of care and practice of the hospital and the nursing department.
- Adheres to the required assessment and nursing therapeutic skills according to the paediatric manual.
- Initiates basic life support during codes until the code team arrives and takes over the resuscitation process.
- Provides support to family/caregivers of paediatric patients as needed.
- Implements and monitors infection control measures.
- Administers and monitors medications' desirable and undesirable effects and intervenes accordingly.
- Ensures patients are provided with appropriate nutrition.
- Delivers pre-operative and post-operative patient care.
- Applies safety measures related to paediatric patient care mainly patient falls and safe environment.
- Abides strictly on the procedure of paediatric security.
- Operates all unit-required equipment safely.
- Participates in quality initiatives and quality improvement activities to improve the unit standards of quality provided.
- Provides patient and family education by:
- Assessing patient and family readiness and ability to learn.
- Identifying learning needs and objectives.
- Developing and implementing the teaching plan utilizing the patient education manual.
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