New Grad RN TCU FT Nights

Core Competencies

• Adheres to infection prevention guidelines
• Adheres to policies, procedures, and standards of practice to deliver safe and optimal care
• Affirms 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

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
• 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
• Affords 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
• Affords assistance with or provides a balanced dietary intake of foods and fluids
• Affords assistance with specific physical, cognitive, social and spiritual activities to increase the range, frequency, or duration of an individuals activity
• Helps a patient to manage negative behaviors
• Promotes behavioral change (SERVICE)
• Improves a patients conscious and unconscious perceptions and attitudes toward his/her body
• Assists with the resolution of a significant loss
• 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