CLINICAL SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

 Exhibits highly developed assessment abilities that exemplify a comprehensive understanding of the total patient/family situation.
Individualizes nursing diagnoses based on assessment data and integrates that with the diagnosis and priorities of other disciplines in order to provide holistic care.
Practice  is driven by an intuitive base and is self-directed, flexible and innovative.
Consistently effective in providing holistic care that ensures positive change even in the most challenging patient care situations.
 Takes a leadership role in evaluating technology and its potential for use.
 Able to conduct literature search through library functions.
 Anticipates patient/family learning needs and utilizes a variety of teaching strategies appropriate  to the patient’s needs.
Serves as expert resource and facilitates other education.
Collaborates with other disciplines to develop and/or implement patient/family teaching programs.
Researches, revises, and develops hospital policies and unit procedures and protocols utilizing appropriate channels and resources.
Unit expert and resource on medications applicable to their unit/clinical setting.
Advocates for culture of safety through knowledge, problem solving and system changes.
Participates in the development of documentation tools, standards, and/or policy.

THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIPS

Intuitively uses expert therapeutic communication with patient/family.
Shares and promotes collaborative approach to patient and family care.
Maximizes patient/family participation in decision-making and goal setting along the continuum of care.
Intuitive understanding of patient/family experience and is proactive in providing creative approaches to optimize comfort and support.
Challenges and adapts systems to maximize the benefits for patient care.
Anticipates patient/family needs.
Embraces visible and invisible diversity; seeks out perspectives from those of different backgrounds and cultures.
Integrates understandings of populations into patient care.

PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS

Through share values and a clear professional identity, demonstrates and role models an interdisciplinary collaborative approach to patient care.
Participates and/or leads team care conference.
Demonstrates team values that orient people to care about performance and success of others.
Recognizes value of conflict in individual and organization learning and growth.
Depends on diversity of workforce to enrich and build great places to work.
Adaptable, flexible, and consistently effective in delegation.
Demonstrates foresight in anticipating and planning to meet patient and family concerns.

Sets goals in self directed manner and actively seeks out opportunities for knowledge/skill enhancement within and beyond the practice setting.