Standard 3: Professional Responsibility
The registered psychiatric nurse is accountable and responsible for safe, competent and ethical psychiatric nursing practice that meets the standards of the profession and legislated requirements.
A registered psychiatric nurse:
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Maintains current registration/licensure.
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Practises in accordance with all relevant legislation and regulation including the Professional Standards for Registered Psychiatric Nurses.
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Exercises professional judgment when agency policies and procedures are unclear or absent.
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Assumes responsibility and accountability for continuing competence, and for meeting continuing competence requirements.
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Seeks out the necessary resources using skill and professional judgment to address personal and professional limitations.
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Recognizes the competencies and limitations of colleagues and/or students when assigning responsibilities.
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Responds to and/or reports unsafe practice, professional incompetence, professional misconduct, and incapacity or fitness-to-practice issues to the appropriate authority.
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Complies with any legal duty to warn and report, including abuse or potential harm to the public.
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Self-reports to the regulatory body conditions that compromise their fitness to practice.
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Uses technology, electronic communication and social media responsibly and professionally.