Essential Job Functions and Key Accountability
Professional responsibility, performance and practice:

• Accepts responsibility and accountability for all actions and decision making within scope of practice as defined by DOH.
• Adheres to the Code of Conduct for DOH, and the organization.
• Completes mandatory and unit specific competencies and demonstrates ongoing compliance with appropriate evidence.
• Develops and maintains own professional portfolio.
• Takes responsibility for own professional development and actively engages in ongoing self-directed learning.
• Obtains accredited and non-accredited Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) Units in compliance with DOH requirements.
• Complete mandatory annual staff training requirements.
• Participates in self and peer evaluation including reflective practice.
• Maintain any qualifications, including license and certificates such as Basic Life Support and other mandatory training within established timeframes.
• Complying consistently with all organization policies, procedures and practices relevant to position.
• Demonstrates leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession.

• Ensure you carry out your work in a way that is person/patient focused and meets professional standards. Practices nursing in a manner that the health consumer determines as being culturally safe.
• Provides nursing care to achieve identified outcomes, utilizing appropriate resources to plan and provide nursing services that are safe, effective, and financially responsible.
• Undertakes a comprehensive and accurate nursing assessment of a patients needs in an organized and systematic manner.
• Ensures accurate and timely documentation and maintains confidentiality of all information.
• Upholds patients rights to make informed choices and advocates for patients and their families in all clinical activities.
• Acts appropriately to protect oneself and others when faced with unexpected patient and/or family responses, confrontation, personal threat or other crisis situations.
• Provides appropriate health education and information to the needs of the patient and their family.
• Accepts responsibility for ensuring that his/her nursing practice and conduct meet the standards of professional, ethical and relevant legislated requirements.
• Demonstrates the ability to apply the principles of cross-cultural knowledge and culturally sensitive skills in implementing culturally congruent safe nursing care.
• Participates in supporting, developing and teaching colleagues to enhance nursing care outcomes. Attains knowledge and competence that reflects current nursing practice. Integrates evidence and research findings into practice.

• Facilitates effective communication between the patient, family and the interdisciplinary healthcare team, as required.
• Communicates effectively with patient and members of the health care team.
• Collaborates with the patient, family, and others in the conduct of nursing practice.
• Collaborates and participates with colleagues and members of the healthcare team to facilitate and coordinate care.
• Recognizes and values the roles and skills of all members of the healthcare team in the delivery of care.
• Establishes and maintains professional boundaries with patients and members of the healthcare team.
• Upholds the organizations customer service standards at all times.
• Make a personal contribution towards effective and efficient working relationships within your team, and with other departments.

Desired Candidate Profile