Position Responsibility:
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.
•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 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).
•Performs additional duties when required.
Unit Specific:
•Keeps consultation rooms stocked and clean before and after the patient has been seen.
•Ensures patient education is provided upon discharge.
•Checks crash cart, refrigeration temperature checklist, etc.
•Reports medical equipment due for Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) monthly.
•Addresses urgent care cases with the physician.
•Addresses all Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tasks on time.
•Calls patients to inform them of approved labs and images and ensure scheduling takes place.
•Updates all patients about the status of their requests.
•Follows up with the insurance coordinators on approvals needed.
•Coordinates with the Operating Room (OR) Coordinator and patient to schedule the operations when applicable.
•Maintains and updates skills and knowledge in medication administration including chemotherapy and blood and blood products transfusion.
•Maintains and updates skills and knowledge in venous access including (peripheral lines and all types of central lines).
•Creates and safe and therapeutic environment for patients and staff.
•Maintains records for patient care and assists in audit of nursing documentation and departmental records as requested.
•Assists in developing and providing related educational materials and education to patients and families.
•Participates in facility surveys and inspections as requested.
•Provides basic life support when needed.
•Assists physicians in Lumbar Puncture, bone marrow aspirate and biopsy, thoracentesis and abdominal paracentesis and chest tube insertion.
•Implements and monitors infection control measures.
•Initiates and handles Intra Venous Access Device (IVAD) line for administering cytotoxic and biologic agents and fluids.
•Manages patients receiving cytotoxic and biologic agents for side effects and complications.
•Manages patients with oncology emergencies.
•Ensures that patients are provided with appropriate nutrition.
•Assists patient in accepting and coping with his/her disease.
•Delivers pre-operative and post-operative patient care, when applicable.
•Applies safety measures related to patient care.
•Operates all unit-required equipment safely.
•Manages kidney transplant patients when applicable.
•Manages bone marrow transplant patients when applicable.
•Manages patients with infectious diseases when applicable.
•Manages immunosuppressed patients when applicable.
•Provides palliative and end-of-life care.
•Assesses patient and family readiness and identifies learning needs.
•Develops and implements the teaching plan to include the disease trajectory and psychosocial issues, preventive, and early detection practices.
•Evaluates the teaching-learning process.
•Documents patient and family education.
Position Qualification:
•Bachelor’s degree in nursing (minimum of three (3) years full-time course duration)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
•Minimum of two (2) years of recent post-graduate experience
•Knowledge of and ability to render care and services based on age, appropriateness, and developmental needs of patients.
•Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification is essential.
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