This involvement may include contracting for specific outcomes of nursing care and evaluating the achievement of those desired outcomes. All PCTs are trained in Staff Education in a competency based 4 week training program. Clinical checkoffs are conducted by RN preceptors on their units. LPN's may be responsible for delivering nursing care under the direction of the assigned registered nurse. They may assume responsibility for implementing the nursing care plan as written, for offering suggestions for modifications, and for communicating to the assigned Registered Nurse any pertinent information which may have a bearing on the patient's care.
Nursing process is used as the framework for delivering nursing care.
Nurses give evidence of their use of nursing process through documentation of patient care in the standards based documentation system. Each patient benefits from multidisciplinary collaboration about his care. Adequate communication is established and maintained between the Registered Nurse, other members of the health care team, and other departments within the institution to assure coordinated and comprehensive care to the patient. Outpatient Patient focused care is the methodology of care utilized for outpatient services. The outpatient staff strive to address the physical, psychosocial and spiritual domains in the preventive, therapeutic and rehabilitative aspects of nursing practice.