About This Role
This night-shift post on the cardiac ward pairs patient care with mentoring new nurses. The Registered Nurse/Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RN/RPN) works collaboratively with an interdisciplinary team to provide person-centered care to diverse populations, promoting resident/client choices and individualized care plans. The role involves direct nursing care, encouraging resident/client and family involvement in care decisions, and supporting continuity and consistency of care.
Responsibilities
- Work collaboratively and in partnership with the interdisciplinary team to identify current or potential care concerns and strengths, plan interventions, document and perform planned interventions, and evaluate outcomes
- Provide person-centered, direct nursing care (including wound care, dementia care and palliative care) and develop care priorities in accordance with established policies, procedures and standards of nursing practice
- Modify care as needed, initiate immediate treatment if required, and communicate changes to interdisciplinary team members in a timely and appropriate manner
- Collect information from a variety of sources using skills of observation, communication and physical assessment to enable the provision of quality care
- Document relevant observations, assessments and interventions, including resident/client and family teaching and evaluation of care using appropriate technological tools (for example, InterRai)
- Communicate resident/client assessments and changes to Physicians, Resident/Client Care Coordinator, and the interdisciplinary team
- Participate in care planning supporting decision making and person-centered care
- Act as an advocate to protect and promote residents'/client's rights to autonomy, respect, privacy, dignity, diversity and access to information in accordance with standards of professional practice and philosophy of Residential Care/Acquired Brain Injury Services
- Work in partnership with Licensed Practical Nurses and other interdisciplinary team members by sharing information, demonstrating and/or providing guidance on clinical tasks, consulting with staff, reassigning clinical/health related tasks when necessary and providing verbal input into staff performance, when requested
- Participate in the orientation and ongoing education of students and others, including LPNs, HCAs and other members of the interdisciplinary team by providing information and acting as a preceptor, mentor and support as requested
- Participate in quality improvement activities by gathering information, providing input into proposed policies and revisions of current policies
- Provide feedback on clinical pathways, protocols and procedures
- Support advanced clinical practice by identifying research needs and participate in research according to established guidelines
- Maintain records, prepare reports, and collect statistical and quality improvement data for research and evaluation purposes, including workload measurement data and quality indicators
