Staff RN TCU FT Days

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

• Manipulates the patients surroundings for promotion of optimal comfort.
  
  
• Facilitates the use of posture and movement in daily activities to prevent fatigue and musculoskeletal strain or injury.
  
  
• Regulates energy use to treat or prevent fatigue and optimize function.
  
  
• Promotes and assists with walking to maintain or restore autonomic and voluntary body functions during treatment and recovery from illness or injury
  
  
• Facilitates regular physical exercise to maintain or advance to a higher level of fitness and health.
  
  
• Uses active or passive body movements to maintain or restore joint flexibility.
  
  
• Positions the patient or a body part to provide comfort, reduce the risk of skin breakdown, promote skin integrity, and/or promote healing.
  
  
• Establishes and maintains a regular pattern of bowel elimination.
  
  
• Manages a patient with a gastrointestinal tube.
  
  
• Manages a patient with urinary drainage equipment.
  
  
• Establishes a predictable pattern of bladder emptying to prevent incontinence for persons with limited cognitive ability who have urge, stress or functional incontinence.
  
  
• Maintains elimination through a stoma and cares for surrounding tissue.
  
  
• Assists with or provides a balanced dietary intake of foods and fluids.
  
  
• Administers food and fluids to support metabolic processes of a patient who is malnourished or at high risk for becoming malnourished
  
  
• Facilitates swallowing and prevents complications of impaired swallowing.
  
  
• Maintains and promotes oral hygiene and dental health for the patient at risk for developing oral or dental lesions.
  
  
• Prevents or minimizes risk factors in the patient at risk of aspiration.
  
  
• Maintains ET and Trach tubes and prevents complications associated with their use.
  
  
• Facilitates regular sleep/wake cycles.
  
  
• Uses pharmacologic agents to reduce or eliminate pain.
  
  
• Collects and analyzes patient data to maintain skin and mucous membrane integrity.
  
  
• Protects and safely reintegrates the affected part of the body while helping the patient adapt to disturbed perceptual abilities.
  
  
• Assists with specific physical, cognitive, social and spiritual activities to increase the range, frequency, or duration of an individuals activity
  
  
• Behavior Management - helps a patient to manage negative behaviors
  
  
• Behavior Modification - promotes behavioral change (SERVICE)
  
  
• Body Image Enhancement - improves a patients conscious and unconscious perceptions and attitudes toward his/her body
  
  
• Communication Enhancement: Hearing Deficit - assists in accepting and leaning alternate methods for living with diminished hearing(SERVICE, KNOWLEDGE)
  
  
• Communication Enhancement: Speech - assists in accepting and learning alternate methods for living with impaired speech(SERVICE, KNOWLEDGE)
  
  
• Communication Enhancement: Visual Deficit - assists in accepting and learning alternate methods for living with diminished vision(SERVICE, KNOWLEDGE)
  
  
• Coping Enhancement - assists a patient to adapt to perceived stressors, changes or threats which interfere with meeting life demands and roles (EXCELLENCE/KNOWLEDGE)
  
  
• Decision making support - Provides information and support for a patient family member who is making a decision regarding health care.
  
  
• Delirium Management - provides a safe and therapeutic environment for the patient who is experiencing an acute confusional state (SERVICE)
  
  
• Provides a modified environment for the patient who is experiencing a chronic confusional state.
  
  
• Promotes awareness of personal identity, time and environment and situation.
  
  
• Uses the recall of past events, feelings and thoughts to facilitate adaptation to present circumstances.
  
  
• Promotes physical comfort and psychological peace in the final phase of life
  
  
• Assists with the resolution of a significant loss
  
  
• Learning Facilitation - promotes the ability to process and comprehend information
  
  
• Mutual Goal Setting - collaborates with patient to identify and prioritize care goals, then develops a plan for achieving those goals through the construction and use of goal attaining scaling (COMMUNITY/SERVICE/EXCELLENCE)
  
  
• Identifies high-risk dependent relationships and takes actions to prevent possible or further infliction of physical, sexual, emotional harm and neglect of basic necessities of life
  
  
• Plans and evaluates patient care with health professionals from other disciplines.
  
  

Education

BCLS or ACLS Certification

Compensation Range:
$55.29- $80.45 / Hour