- 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
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- Serves as an integral member of the Orthopedic Center of Excellence Program.
| - Assesses and identifies nursing diagnoses and treats patient conditions for which orthopaedic patient are at risk, including but not limited to pan, impaired physical mobility, self-care deficits, impaired skin integrity, body image disturbance, and post-trauma response.
| - Assesses, identifies nursing diagnoses and treat orthopaedic patient conditions such as total joint replacement (hip and knee).
| - Applies the nursing process as the basis for clinical judgment and decision making, nursing theory, and research, as well as specific orthopaedic knowledge.
| - Collaborates with consumers and other member of the interdisciplinary health care team to ensure comprehensive orthopaedic education and treatment programs are established and maintained for a variety of health care settings.
| - Cares for patients with musculoskeletal injuries, including use of immobilization and ambulatory assistive devices.
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