Standard 4: Leadership and Collaboration in Quality Psychiatric Nursing Practice
The registered psychiatric nurse enhances the safety, quality and effectiveness of psychiatric nursing practice through leadership and collaboration.
A registered psychiatric nurse:
- Engages in practices that promote physical, environmental and psychological safety.
- Evaluates the effectiveness of interventions in psychiatric nursing practice.
- Participates in quality improvement activities to initiate change in psychiatric nursing practice and in the health care system.
- Collaborates with client, team members, families and other stakeholders to develop comprehensive psychiatric nursing care to achieve the client's health goals.
- Mentors colleagues and stakeholders for the advancement of psychiatric nursing practice and quality health care.
- Promotes collaborative practice among health care professionals through respectful working relationships and appropriate documentation practices.
- Acts as a leader, teacher and role model to students, beginner practitioners and colleagues, supporting, Instructing and/or mentoring them in their professional development.
- Takes action to resolve professional practice issues.
- Collaborates with and advocates for clients.
- Demonstrates professional leadership through:
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Building trusting relationships
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Creating
empowering environments
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Supporting knowledge development and integration within the health care team
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Advancing psychiatric nursing practice and quality health care
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Leading and sustaining change and balancing competing values and priorities
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