Core Competencies

• Adheres to infection prevention guidelines
  
  
• Adheres to policies, procedures, and standards of practice to deliver safe and optimal care
  
  
• Assesses patient history, physiological, and psychosocial status
  
  
• Communicates with the patient, family, medical staff and others during the continuum of care
  
  
• Complies with Joint Commission’s national patient safety goals
  
  
• Complies with organizational quality dashboard/benchmarking goals
  
  
• Interprets common variables affecting patient care and follows reporting process
  
  
• Maintains regulatory compliance consistent with quality standards and ethical obligations of the profession
  
  
• Participates in activities in alignment with the Magnet Model
  
  
• Participates in organizational activities
  
  
• Participates in Peer Review
  
  
• Participates in professional development activities
  
  
• Performs as a preceptor in an active and engaged manner
  
  
• Provides age-specific individualized care that supports protection from harm and complies with patient safety centered interventions/bundles
  
  
• Provides patient and family education throughout the care of patient
  
  
• Uses critical thinking to formulate and carry out a care plan according to patient needs
  
  
• Utilizes resources in an economical manner
  
  
• Utilizes safe administration of medications
  
  
• Utilizes Safe Patient Handling
  
  

Department Specific Competencies

• Environmental Management Safety - Monitors and manipulates the physical environment to promote safety. (Excellence/Service)
  
  
• Environmental Management: Worker Safety - Monitors and manipulates the worksets environment to promote safety and health of workers.
  
  
• Increases surveillance of worksite to reduce risk of fires.
  
  
• Latex Precautions - Reducing the risk of a systemic reaction to latex.
  
  
• Malignant Hyperthermia Precautions - Prevents or reduces hyper metabolic responses to pharmacologic agents used during surgery.
  
  
• Applies to pneumatic tourniquet, while minimizing the potential for patient injury from use of the device.
  
  
• Prevents nosocomial infection in the operating room.
  
  
• Assists the surgeon with operative procedures and care of the surgical patient.
  
  
• Moves the patient or body part to promote surgical exposure while reducing the risk of discomfort and complications.
  
  
• Minimizes the potential for iatrogenic injury to the patient related to a procedure.
  
  
• Attains and or maintains body temperature within normal range.
  
  
• Minimizes apprehension, dread, foreboding or uneasiness related to an unidentified source of anticipated danger.
  
  
• Arranges to be with another during a time of need.
  
  
• Provides comfort and communication through purposeful tactile contact.
  
  
• Determines the effectiveness of a new products or equipment.
  
  
• Ensures acquisition and maintenance of appropriate items for providing patient care.
  
  
• Obtains, prepares, and preserves specimen for a laboratory test.
  
  
• Physician support - Collaboration with physicians to provide quality patient care.
  
  
• Collaborates with attending physicians and consultants to provide optimal quality patient care treatments.
  
  

Education

Experience

License / Certification Requirements