Staff Nurse - Pediatric Inpatient Ward TP

General:

• 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.
  • Leading/encouraging a multidisciplinary approach to patient discharge.
  • Evaluating the teaching-learning process.
  • Documenting patient and family education.