What You Need to Know to Strengthen Professional Practice
- Your regulatory body, employer, and professional associations set responsibilities, obligations, and expectations for the performance of registered nursing practice.
- Know, understand, and apply the standards, competencies, code of ethics, scope of practice, and best practices into all aspects of professional practice.
- Be familiar with organizational policy, procedure, and/or work standards that apply to your professional practice and patient care, and that must be consistent with regulatory standards and legislation.
- Understand and use your collective bargaining agreement. Nursing Practice and Nursing Advisory Committee articles including appendices have been negotiated to enable you to address professional practice issues, staffing, workload, and deviations in your ability to perform your duties.
- Complete Work Situation Reports after using low-level resolution and speaking with your Manager and/or designate, for ANY professional practice, workload, or staffing issue that is not resolved in real-time.
- Engage in professional development, lifelong learning, and continuing education to obtain additional knowledge, skills, and critical thinking to grow your professional practice from novice to expert.
- Lifelong learning resources and opportunities are available from SUN, regulatory bodies, employers, professional associations, and other professional/ healthcare organizations.
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