Clinical Nurse – CAMHS

Roles and Responsibilities:

Competencies to be assessed as outlined in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health unit orientation and competency booklets. These competencies include but are not limited to:

• Follows the nursing process to deliver compassionate, safe and culturally sensitive care
• Conducting mental health assessments
• Developing individualized care plans
• Risk management; identifying, addressing and managing risk, ensuring a culture of safety is maintained
• Communicates effectively with the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring accurate and timely documentation and reporting
• Providing therapeutic interventions, including CBT, distress tolerance and therapeutic distraction
• Crisis management and de-escalation skills
• Administration of medications, including psychotropic and PRN medications
• Basic physical health monitoring
• Providing psycho education to patients and their families
• Demonstrates an understanding of child and adolescent mental health and developmental needs
• Identifies any deterioration in a patient’s physical health and escalates as per Sidra protocols for further review

Professionalism and Ethical Practice

• Practices within the DHP Scope of Practice according to licensure within the State of Qatar
• Provides total individualized patient care and assumes responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care, discharge planning for each patient.
• Ensures timely documentation of care, discharge planning and family education aligned to Sidra standards of documentation
• Demonstrates critical thinking skills by problem solving appropriately during patient care
• Independently initiates escalation of issues following the chain of command, utilizing resources as needed
• Independently maintains licensure and regulatory requirements (e.g. life support certifications and CPD requirements)
• Meets requirements of organizational, profession and departmental/role specific orientation competencies
• Role model’s appearance and behaviors that promote a positive image of nursing
• Adheres to time and attendance requirements
• Participates in new staff/student orientation, assists in maintaining a suitable learning environment and acts as a preceptor/mentor in the supervision and teaching of new staff/students to develop their competence.
• Actively participates and/or contributes the Shared Leadership structure to promote and embed Shared Leadership
• Assumes responsibility for own professional development through lifelong learning to ensure continued competence and performance improvement

Patient and Family Centered Care

• Provides holistic, patient and family centered care based on evidence and best practice
• Anticipates and responds to patient and family care requirements
• Evaluates learning needs of patient and/or family and provides patient and family education
• Maintains confidentiality at all times

Teamwork and Collaboration

• Treats colleagues, patients, and visitors with dignity and respect at all times
• Promotes and maintains effective communication and teamwork
• Demonstrates collaborative and respectful behavior
• Contributes to a positive work environment

Evidence Based Practice

• Adheres to Sidra’s Nursing and Midwifery Standards of Practice
• Ensures care is based on best evidence
• Incorporates credible critically appraised evidence into nursing practice and when initiating change

Quality Improvement

• Identify ways to improve services through quality improvement initiatives
• Participates in quality improvement initiatives and measure outcomes
• Contributes effective use of resources and identifies any opportunities for efficiency

Safety 

• Acknowledges own limitations in knowledge, judgment and/or skills, and functions within those limitations.
• Seeks resolution in knowledge and competency gaps to ensure patient safety is maintained at all times
• Demonstrates consistent and reliable use of technology and standardized practices that support safety and quality
• Communicates observations or concerns related to hazards and errors to patients, families and the healthcare team
• Uses organizational error reporting systems for near miss and event reporting
• Demonstrates effective use of strategies to reduce risk of harm to self or others
• Assumes responsibility and accountability for own clinical decision, delegation and provides supervision to team members according to their competence and scope of practice

Informatics

• Accurately, concisely and appropriately documents care, interventions and outcomes in a timely manner
• Practices contemporaneous documentation, ensuring entries into the medical record are recorded and signed in real time
• Utilizes data from the patient record to make decisions and responds appropriately to clinical decision-making supports and alerts
• Protects confidentiality of protected health information in electronic health records
• Follows all Hospital related policies and procedures.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
• Adheres to Sidra’s standards as they appear in the Code of Conduct and Conflict of Interest policies
• Adheres to and promotes Sidra’s Values