Staff Nurse Ward

Job Description: 

• 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 HAAD license.
• Complete annual staff training requirements.
• Follows all Hospital related policies and procedures.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.