St John of God Subiaco Hospital - Professional Practice

1. Presented by Catherine Buchholz
Graduate nurse program coordinator
Professional
Practice

2. Learning outcomes
To provide an overview of the standard for
professional practice in the newly registered
RN

3. What does being a professional
mean?

4. What does being a
professional mean?
Successfully Completed a university
education
Registered with a professional body
Practice is guided by professional
standards
Professional behavior

5. Professional behavior
Share with your table
Examples of professional behavior
in the clinical setting

6. Professional behavior
Arriving at work on time
Being ready and willing to work
Recognise limitations to skill and knowledge
Seek assistance when necessary
Complete work in a timely manner
Ensure all communication is respectful and
professional with patients, their significant others
and all members of the HCT
Demonstrate competence in nursing care and
undertake ongoing profession development

7. Unprofessional behavior
Regularly arriving late to work
Not complying with hospital policies
Using mobile phones during work time
Disrupting others at work
Not turning up to shifts you do not want to work/
or being hungover at work
Not showing all members of the care team respect
by arguing about allocations or directions

8. Accountability
Who did what and when.
What are you accountable for
Your level of expertise and SONP
Your communication of care delivered/not delivered
Identifying and acting upon unsafe/unprofessional
behaviors and practice

9. Scope of nursing practice
Making decisions that demonstrate clinical
competency and accountability for the standard of
practice
You have been asked to pick up a patient
from PACU who has undergone a total hip
replacement under spinal anesthesia. The
patient will have an epidural, indwelling
catheter, two drains, IV running and is
currently hypertensive at 160/110.
Apply your scope of nursing practice to guide
your actions?

10. Scope of nursing practice
You have been asked to pick up a patient from PACU who has undergone a total hip
replacement. The patient will have an Epidural, indwelling catheter, two drains, IV
running and is currently hypertensive at 160/110.
Preparation and experience
Is my preparation and experience sufficient for me to undertake the
activity safely
Confident of beneficial outcomes
Am I confident in my ability to achieve a beneficial outcome for the
patient?
Risk management
Have I considered any potential hazards and developed strategies to
avoid them
Clinical consequence
Have I considered the consequences of my actions and is there a
clinical reason for me to proceed

11. Delegation

12. Delegation
Using the delegation model
Discuss yours and the
PCA’s accountability and
responsibility when asking
a PCA to pick up blood from
the blood bank.

13. Delegation
Another PCA gives you the
blood as the PCA you
delegated the task was
called away to take a
patient to theatre, so he
asked her to pick up the
blood
What are your actions.