- Assessing patient's condition before surgery
- Preparing the operating room with all necessary supplies, implants, instrumentation, and equipment
- Sterilizing the operating room
- Passing medical instruments to surgeons during operation
- Monitoring patient's vital signs
- Evaluating postoperative patients
- Reviewing charts for completeness, in accordance with documentation protocols prior to and after surgical procedure
- Adhering to all relevant health and safety standards
- Coordinating patient care delivery
- Identifying nursing diagnoses based on responses to health problems
- Developing and implementing an individualized plan of care
- Evaluating the patient's response
- Promoting safe passage for patients through the healthcare encounter
- Delegating interventions to health care personnel based on each patient's condition and the competencies of the employee
- Evaluating the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice
- Participating in quality/performance improvement initiatives
- Creating an attentive, helpful, safe and therapeutic environment for patients, families and staff
- Developing therapeutic relationships with patient and family
- Recognizing and incorporating a patient's and family's unique differences into an individualized plan of care
- Preserving and protecting the confidentiality, autonomy, dignity and rights of patient and family
- Facilitating learning for patients, families, and other members of the health care team
- Working collaboratively and interdependently with colleagues and community
- Using strategies and available resources for problem-solving for patients, family and staff
- Participating in mutual governance and decision-making processes
- Contributing to the professional development of peers, colleagues and others
- Demonstrating commitment to community service.