Undergraduate Nurse Casual AgeCare Valleyview-1

POSITION SUMMARY

The Undergraduate Nurse (UN) works as a member of the care team, collaborating on the delivery of client care to meet individual needs and within his/her level of competency.  He/She integrates and applies the knowledge, skills, judgment and interpersonal attributes required to provide a safe and ethical professional service to clients under the supervision of a Registered Nurse (RN).

The UN will be assigned duties reflective of his/her level of education preparation, demonstrated skill level, AgeCare policies and procedures and the collaborative care model.

Within the scope of this position, the UN takes on a key role to continually provide an environment promoting a culture of client safety and freedom from harm and injury.

The UN promotes health and safety awareness in the workplace, promotes teamwork and spirit, encourages client independence, respects clients’ rights and individuality, assists them to meet their basic needs and applies understanding of life cycle and aging to current practice.

VALUE BASED WORK

All positions must work demonstrating AgeCare’s values of Trust, Respect, Quality and Teamwork. AgeCare is committed to providing a respectful environment, and we believe that when we work together and live our values, we honour our rights and responsibilities.  

CORE OUTCOMES

Assessment

• Collects relevant data and contributes to the comprehensive assessment of the health status of each assigned client
• Assesses client and collaborates with the RN by providing a physical assessment of major body systems for which he/she has had instruction and has demonstrated competence in his/her education program:
  • Respiratory (pneumonia)
  • Circulatory (possible MI, CHF)
  • Integumentary (risk of skin breakdown)
  • Sensory (hearing, visual losses)
  • Muscular – skeletal (mobility, pain)
  • Elimination (bowel, bladder)
• Ensures all newly admitted clients and those clients with changing, complex, unpredictable, unstable health care needs have a comprehensive nursing assessment including physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health and well being

Planning

• In collaboration with the client, family, members of the care team, identifies, relates, interprets, and integrates the client’s needs
• Utilizes data collected from assessments to establish a plan of care in collaboration with the RN
• Records identified needs on the client’s care plan
• Contributes to the establishment of client goals and outcome measures for the identified interventions
• Ensures revisions to car plans are made, in collaboration with the RN

Implementation

• Provides care in accordance with AgeCare policies and procedures under the direction of the RN
• Modifies nursing actions according to changes in client health status under the direction of the RN
• Provides care to stable clients to further assess individual clients and/or to coach other nursing staff in the provision of quality care
• Documents nursing actions in the 24-hr report and TTR indicating collaboration with the RN
• Administers medications which are not considered restricted activities, to assigned clients
• Evaluates the effectiveness of all medications
• Documents administration of medications according to AgeCare policies and procedures

Evaluation

• Assists the RN in the evaluation of client care regularly based on expected outcomes: monthly, quarterly, annually, after significant changes to a client’s condition
• Collaborates with the RN to evaluate the care of groups of clients based on best practice standards established for the group

Documentation

• Assists the RN in maintaining accurate, clear, concise documentation that meets legislative and legal requirements as well as the standards identified by AgeCare

Communication on the Nursing Team

• Assists the RN to ensure that all relevant information is communicated to the next shifts – verbal shift report  / 24 hr report (along with documentation on the clinical record)
• Collaborates with the RN to assess nursing workloads and plans staff assignments to best meet the overall needs of clients (group assignments, unit / neighborhood assignments relative to overall Nursing Department workloads/needs)

Collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Team

• Consults with other members of the professional health care team as appropriate

Continuing Competence

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