Gilbert Torres Bautista

Patient Centered Care
Provides skilled safe, holistic, culturally competent, person-centered nursing care to patients, families, community and society, in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team irrespective of healthcare settings.

Performance criteria
Undertakes a comprehensive , holistic systematic nursing assessment involving the patient, family and other healthcare providers, as appropriate, in order to determine the needs, concerns, problems, issues, and/or diagnosis that serve as a basis for care planning.
Maintains and demonstrates clinical competence in all aspects of care provided to patients on specific unit.
Administers medications and therapies in a safe, timely and effective manner in accordance with HMC policy.
Attends to emergency/crisis situations calmly and effectively.
Develops, implements, evaluates, revises and provides input to the patients’ plan of care and provides care according to the plan of care.
Defines expected goals and/or outcomes in terms of the individual patient’s needs, concerns, culture and values.
Applies best available knowledge from credible sources to support clinical reasoning, decision-making and safe practice.
Continuously evaluates the response(s) of patients/groups to nursing and where delegated medical interventions documenting observations accurately in a timely manner and taking appropriate action including reporting abnormal or concerning results.
Documents nursing interventions and patient /group responses accurately and in a timely manner.
Maintains and promotes customer satisfaction through effective customer service.
Communication and Teamwork
Uses communication skills to ensure that other members of the health care team, the patient and their family are and remain fully informed.

Performance Criteria:
Initiates, develops and terminates therapeutic relationship with individuals, families and groups through the use of appropriate communication and interpersonal skills.
Demonstrates cultural competence across patient groups.
Consistently communicates relevant, accurate and comprehensive information in verbal, written and electronic forms in a timely manner to ensure the delivery of safe, competent and ethical care.
Works with others to affect change and produce positive outcomes through the sharing of knowledge of the individual and/or the situation.
Participates in building consensus or resolving conflict in the context of patient care.
Demonstrates the ability to work as a team member by engaging in teamwork and the team-building processes.
Works in collaboration with other members of the wider multidisciplinary team across patient pathways.

• Initial assessment on patient’s condition and behavior
• Monitoring Vital Signs
• Monitoring patient’s special precautions such as:
• Seizure Precautions
• Escape Precautions
• Homicidal Precautions
• Suicidal Precautions
• Abscond Precautions
• Administration of Medication
• Assisting and motivating patient to do activities of daily living (ADL)
• Assisting in maintaining safe and secure environment
• Referring any untoward incidents especially for any untoward behaviour noted within the shift
• Performing nursing interventions and procedures such as IV insertion, catheterization, suctioning and other emergency nursing procedures
• Agreeing and reviewing care plans and monitoring progress
• Liaising with doctors, social workers and other professionals
• Building relationships with, reassuring, listening, and talking to patients
• Combating stigma and helping patient and their families deal with it
• Documentation and updating patient record
• License
• Philippine Nurse Licensure Examination 2009
• Philippine Regulatory

• Administration of Appropriate Drugs within the ACLS algorithms, American Safety and Health Institute, Mariveles Mental Hospital, Recognition and Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke/ Cardiovascular Care

• Basic ECG and Dysrhythmia Recognition, and Health Institute, Mariveles Mental

• Endotracheal Intubation and Management in ACLS

• Recognition and Management of Acute

• Serves patients by visiting homes; determining patient and family needs; developing health care plans; providing nursing services and treatments; referring patients with social and emotional problems to other community agencies
• Helps the community health care team by coordinating assessment, planning, and providing of needed health and related services; participating in case conferences with physicians, hospital and rehabilitative personnel, and representative of other agencies
• Provides health information by instructing family in care and rehabilitation of patient; maintaining health and prevention of disease for family members; teaching home nursing, maternal and child care; providing instructions in other subjects related to individual and community welfare
• Safeguards health of children by participating in child health conferences, school health; providing group instruction for parents; conducting immunization programs
• Arranges convalescent and rehabilitative care of sick or injured persons by cooperating with families, community agencies, and medical personnel
• Improves quality results by studying, evaluating, and recommending changes in processes; implementing changes
• Keeps vehicle and equipment operating by following operating instructions; troubleshooting breakdowns; maintaining supplies; performing preventive maintenance; calling for repairs
• Keeps supplies ready by inventorying stock; placing orders; verifying receipt
• Documents actions by completing forms, reports, logs, and patient records
• Avoids legal challenges by complying with legal requirements; keeping patient information confidential
• Updates public health job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations
• Enhances public health department and city reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

• Making a call through radio frequency devices using 10 emergency codes
• Performs administrative tasks
• Conducts ongoing assessments as determined by patient’s condition and/or the client facility’s policies, procedures or protocols and reprioritizes care accordingly
• Develops plan of care that is individualized for the patient reflecting collaboration with other members of the healthcare team
• Performs appropriate treatments as ordered by physician in an accurate and timely manner
• Performing first aid, basic and advanced cardiac life support
• Other duties of an Emergency Room Nurse such as:
• Wound Cleaning and Dressing
• Removal of Suture
• Catheterization
• Suctioning
• Oxygenation and Nebulization
• Performing ECG and CPR
• Assisting in Delivery and Newborn Care
• Conducting referrals to higher facility
• Conducting Health Education

• Conducts an individualized patient assessment, prioritizing the data collection based on the patient’s immediate condition or needs within timeframe specified by client facility’s policies, procedures or protocols
• Conducts ongoing assessments as determined by patient’s condition and/or the client facility’s policies, procedures or protocols and reprioritizes care accordingly
• Develops plan of care that is individualized for the patient reflecting collaboration with other members of the healthcare team
• Performs appropriate treatments as ordered by physician in an accurate and timely manner
• Performs therapeutic nursing interventions as established by individualized plan of care for the patient and his/her family
• Delivers care with appropriate age and cultural competence to specific patient populations according to individualized needs
• Provides individualized patient/family education customized to the patient and his/her family
• Documents patient assessment findings, physical/psychosocial responses to nursing intervention and progress towards problem resolution
• Initiates emergency resuscitative measures according to adult resuscitation and advanced life support protocols
• Maintains confidentiality in matters related to patient, family and client facility staff
• Provides care in a non-judgmental, non-discriminatory manner that is sensitive to the patient’s and family’s diversity, preserving their autonomy, dignity and rights
• Reports patient condition to appropriate personnel during each shift
• Maintains current competency in nursing specialty by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.