• Promotes and supports patient understanding of major health determinants
• Contributes to patient education on health risk factors
• Contributes to patient and family education on development of behavioral strategies related to healthy living
• Participates in implementation of health promotion strategies for early detection and screening for communicable diseases
• Reduces the risk of disease transmission through applying standard (universal) infection control principles
• Identifies, records and takes appropriate action to reduce incidence of disease transmission
• Identifies environmental and behavioral risk factors which may compromise patient safety
• Identifies and acts to reduce risk and harm
• Intervenes and reports incidents to reduce likelihood of reoccurrence
• Provides basic care and comfort within the defined scope of competency
• Provides care for patients with acute and chronic physical health conditions
• Provides are for acute and chronic conditions of a child from birth to adolescence
• Demonstrates basic understanding of pharmacological interventions
• Contributes to nursing assessment of patients through data collection and reporting (including documentation)
• Participates with the RN to evaluate and alter nursing care to ensure patient needs and outcomes are accurately prioritized
• Implements care that demonstrates respect for human rights, culture, religion and individual preference
• Recognizes and assumes responsibility to work within professional standards and ethical codes of practice
• Protects the patient from risks, harm, abuse or neglect
• Utilize accurate knowledge of policies and procedures that guide practice
• Ensures confidentiality of patient information
• Utilizes effective time management strategies to organize workload
• Establishes and maintains professional boundaries
• Recognizes limitations in own professional knowledge and skills and take appropriate action.
• Establishes collaborative relationships with other members of the interdisciplinary team to optimize patient outcomes
• Identifies, reports and documents health care practices that may
• Demonstrates respect for variations in competence and professional knowledge between members of a multidisciplinary health care team
• Seeks and acts upon constructive feedback related to professional performance from colleagues.