Job Description

Responsibilities

• 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. Revises 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)
• 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 Narcotic/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

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of two (2) years of recent post-graduate experience in a Maternal Newborn Nursing
• Knowledge of and ability to render care and services based on age, appropriateness, and developmental needs of patients
• Skills in the assessment of patient and family’s physical and psychological needs
• Skills in coordination and planning of care and prioritizing care based on individual needs