Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes
- Perform nursing interventions to assist a person with complex needs.
- Perform nursing interventions based on the person’s predetermined plan of care.
- Undertake nursing interventions demonstrating respect for the person’s dignity and cultural diversity.
- Encourage the person to assist by undertaking aspects of their own care during care interventions.
- Consider the person’s physical, emotional and psychosocial needs when performing nursing interventions.
- Contribute to the nursing care of people with common disorders and conditions
- Provide nursing care to the person appropriate to the management of complex conditions.
- Observe, report and document the person’s reactions and responses to the provided care management and medication.
- Refer promptly to the registered nurse any reactions, responses or variations from the normal or unexpected outcomes, including concern for the deteriorating person.
- Use critical thinking to improve care quality.
- Monitor own thinking constantly in relation to own clarity, precision, accuracy, consistency, logic and significance of care, in order to correct oneself when appropriate in the context of caring for a person.
- Identify possible nursing interventions for a person with complex needs, based on health information and clinical presentation.
- Raise the issue with the registered nurse where the nursing interventions are at odds with an already prescribed course of action by multidisciplinary team.
- Explain clearly the reasoning behind specific decisions and actions being taken in the context of the health care of the person.
- Identify areas for quality improvement including to organisation processes in the care of a person with complex needs.