We know that the professional practice environment may not always support safe, competent, ethical, and quality care. You may not be able to meet your professional responsibilities and accountabilities. You have invested time, effort, and financial resources to become a registered nurse, and to continue to grow your professional practice from novice to expert for patients, clients, and/or residents. Protecting your professional practice is a priority with SUN Provincial.
Members, Locals, and SUN Provincial must work as a team to identify, develop action plans, and escalate professional practice concerns to address:
- professional practice and the working environment deficiencies,
- the inability to perform and function to your full registered nurse practice in all settings and locations,
- address professional practice issues where attempts are being made to remove registered nurses from core professional practice, and
- to address risks to your license.
SUN is committed to advocating and advancing your professional practice concerns and issues, seeking clarification on processes and changes from the Employer, and advancing registered nursing practice in Saskatchewan. SUN Provincial cannot do these things without You and our Locals. This requires communication and documentation on Work Situation Reports (WSRs). Nothing changes without action. |
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What Members Should Do
- Don’t give away your professional practice and license to other healthcare or unlicensed providers.
- Assess your professional practice and environment for issues that do not allow you to fulfill your professional responsibilities and accountabilities as defined by your regulatory body.
- Know your professional practice obligations as a registered nurse from your regulatory body (standards, competencies, code of ethics, scope of practice), and your Employer (policy, procedure, work standards).
- Be Proactive. If you see an issue in professional practice you need to address it with your co-workers and Manager.
- You need to communicate with your Manager/designate, or On-Call Manager to find solutions in real-time.
- Complete a Work Situation Report (WSR) after using the Nursing Advisory Process in real-time.
- Inform your regulatory body of issues in your professional practice environment, seek clarification on your obligations as a registered nurse, and get their assistance to address risks within professional practice.
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Who to Contact for Professional Practice Assistance
- Local President: Your Local President is your expert on your collective agreement and professional practice in your working environment.
- Nurse Practice Officers (NPOs): Your Nurse Practice Officers are your SUN Provincial professional practice experts who support, advise and intervene to find solutions in practice. Their primary responsibility is applying your professional responsibilities and accountabilities into your professional practice working environment, and addressing issues through the nursing advisory process, work situation reports and the Joint Nursing Advisory Committee.
- Regulatory Bodies: Your regulatory bodies are mandated for the protection of the public. Their mandate requires that they fulfill the following activities: registration; licensure; setting standards, competencies, and ethical obligations; approving nursing education for entry to practice requirements; interpreting the regulated scope of practice; continuing competence; and, responding to concerns about members.
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Professional Practice Resources
SUN
SRNA
RPNAS
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DID YOU KNOW....
... online education materials that support registered nurses providing safe, competent care may be considered as part of your continuing competency requirements?
Members are encouraged to follow up with their regulatory body to review and confirm eligible material(s). |
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QUESTIONS? Contact SUN Provincial @
Regina Saskatoon
1-800-667-7060 1-800-667-3294
regina@sun-nurses.sk.ca saskatoon@sun-nurses.sk.ca |
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