New Grad RN Residency Med Surg Nurse

Hybrid-based
ONET: 29-1141.00

1

Years

103

Skills

227h

Related instructions

2000h

On-the-job training
Classroom instruction topics
  • Quality Assurance & General Patient Care
  • Nurse Residency Program
  • Unit Orientation
  • Unit-Based Continuing Education
  • Advanced Clinical Skills
On-the-job training
  • Unit-Based Orientation
    • Demonstrates an understanding unit policy and procedure.
    • Demonstrates an understanding of the physical environment.
    • Demonstrates the ability to access online resources.
    • Demonstrates the ability to successfully insert and care for a peripheral IV.
    • Demonstrates the ability to successfully perform peritoneal dialysis.
    • Demonstrates the ability to use standard equipment in the delivery of patient care.
  • Demonstrates the ability to safely and accurately perform the daily duties of the Registered Nurse
    • Hourly rounding
    • Bedside handoff
    • Unit to unit and facility to facility handoff
    • Physician communication with appropriate documentation
    • Participates in Multi-Disciplinary Rounds
    • Delegates and supervises tasks to Nursing Technician
    • Communicates effectively with patients and family
    • Recognizes need for and provides emotional support
    • Recognizes change patient clinical status/deterioration, responds and escalates to charge RN/physician
    • Acts as an advocate for the patient and family
    • Demonstrates professional and accountability for nursing practice
    • Treats patient and family with dignity and respects and maintains patient safety
    • Communicates professionally and respectfully with peers and members of the interdisciplinary team
    • Recognizes situations that require mandated reporting and follows appropriate reporting process
    • Completes ADLS/I&O in a timely manner with appropriate documentation
    • Assess for and implements interventions ordered to mitigate risk for VTE
    • Provides ongoing patient and family education with respect to assessed learning needs
    • Minimize use of verbal/telephone orders and performs read-back
    • Verbalizes the rationale for Nurse Order Review and completes for all new orders
    • Accurately interprets and responds to lab values
    • Demonstrates appropriate clinical alarm management
  • Consistently ensures a safe environment of care and adheres to infection control measures
    • Adheres to safe patient handling/patient ambulation practices
    • Initiates standard fall precautions for all patients
    • Assesses patient fall risk and institutes/documents appropriate fall precautions
    • Evaluates patient medication list for medications that may increase fall risk and implements interventions based on this assessment
    • Communicates fall risk and interventions with members of the patient care team
    • Participates in post-fall huddles and ensures completion of post-fall huddle form
    • Demonstrates proper infection control measures
    • Follows procedure for care of re-usable instruments
    • CAUTI prevention measures
    • CLABSI prevention measures
    • Pressure Ulcer Prevention
    • Universal Protocol
    • Restraints
    • Influenza and pneumococcal screening and vaccination
    • Reports all adverse patient safety events per policy
    • Demonstrates the ability to safely manage and administer medications:
    • Correctly operates Pyxis machine
    • Accurately and safety administers medication per policy
    • Describes how/ reports medication errors, near misses, and Adverse Drug Events
    • Manages medications appropriately in response to lab values and vital signs
    • Administers and titrates oxygen appropriately via standard delivery devices
    • Safely manages Alaris pump
    • Safely disposes of medications
    • Safely stores medications
    • Accurately completes and documents 2 RN check process for high-alert medications (heparin, insulin, and blood transfusions)
  • Demonstrates the ability to accurately complete a patient admission, transfer, and discharge
    • Admission
    • Transfer
    • Discharge
  • Demonstrates the ability to perform and document a systems assessment
    • Neurological assessment
    • ENT assessment
    • Respiratory assessment
    • Cardiovascular assessment
    • GI assessment
    • GU assessment
    • Integumentary assessment
    • Pain assessment
  • Demonstrates the ability to implement disease-specific protocols and education
    • Stroke
    • Sepsis
    • Required discharge education with documentation
    • Demonstrates the ability to provide wound care: Dry sterile and wet to dry
    • Demonstrates the ability to provide wound care: VAC Dressing
    • Demonstrates the ability to provide wound care: Intentionally-retained packing process
    • Demonstrates the ability to provide wound care: Wound RN consult process
  • Demonstrates the ability to properly assess and care for lines, tubes, and drains
    • Peripheral lines/PICC
    • Port-a-cath
    • Central Lines
    • Dialysis catheter
    • Line draws for lab specimens
    • Naso/Oro/Gastric tubes
    • Foley catheter
    • Catheter irrigation/CBI
    • Chest Tube
    • Surgical drains
    • Ostomy drains
    • Tracheostomy/laryngectomy care and emergency management
  • Demonstrates the ability to provide comfort care and post-mortem care
    • Verbalizes an understanding of the dying process
    • Provides emotional support to families of patients on comfort care
    • Completes organ donation process
    • Provides post-mortem care
  • Demonstrates the ability to prepare patient for a procedure/surgery
    • Verification of orders and consent
    • Pre-op pregnancy test
    • Pre-op bath
    • Pacemaker/defibrillator
    • Universal protocol for bedside procedures
    • CAD bundle documentation for central line insertions
  • Demonstrates the ability to provide population-specific patient care
    • Pregnant patients (as applicable to unit)
    • Social, cultural, and religious diversity
    • Patients with mental illness
    • Patients with substance use disorder
    • Neonatal (as applicable to unit)
    • Infant (as applicable to unit)
    • Pediatric (as applicable to unit)
    • Adolescent (as applicable to unit)
    • Adult
    • Geriatric
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