| Job Duties |
1. Performs and documents physical, psychosocial, and emotional
assessments. Takes all assessments into consideration age specific
criteria.
2. Anticipates patient's and/or patient's family's expectations and
needs and utilizes them in conjunction with assessment to develop
appropriate plan of care for patient. Maintains and utilizes
competencies per unit expectations. Utilizes critical thinking
skills in planning and prioritizing nursing care.
3. Identifies and implements appropriate nursing interventions based
on assessment. Completes documentation of interventions.
Coordinates interdisciplinary plan of care. Confers with members
of health care team, sharing information and observations of
patient and/or patient's family, to ensure optimal patient care.
4. Prioritizes nursing interventions based upon assessment. Identifies
changes in condition as evidenced by assessment,labs, x-rays, etc.
Reports changes and takes follow-up action as appropriate.
5. Evaluates implemented interventions and modifies care according to
evaluation. Documents interventions and modifications to plan of
care.
6. Adheres to appropriate policies, procedures, clinical pathways, and
nationally accepted standards of nursing practice while delivering
care to patients. Suggests practices to enhance nursing care based
on current literature and research.
7. Provides answers and/or education to patients and/or patients'
families. Completes documentation of all education provided.
Obtains feedback and evaluation of understanding from patient and
family. Ensures comfort level of post-discharge care.
Demonstrates effective communication with children, adolescents,
adults, and older adults.
8. Welcomes and orients patient and family to unit. Encourages
patient and family participation in care. Reviews plan of care
with patient and family. Explains special diets, tests,
procedures, and medications. Makes rounds on patients.
9. Reports errors promptly and takes appropriate follow-up action to
rectify errors. Provides supervision of, and direction to,
unlicensed support personnel and nurses new to unit. Delegates
duties appropriately and within legal parameters.
10. Responds to patient's and/or family's complaints in appropriate and
effective manner. Reports complaints to Clinical Nurse Manager or
designee in timely manner. Utilizes chain of command to resolve
issues. Serves as advocate to patient and family.
11. Participates in performance improvement activities as directed.
Attends at least 80% of scheduled staff meetings and 100% of
mandatory educational sessions.
12. Performs other duties as assigned.
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