PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

January, 2013

Professional Practice, Research and Education

• The Professional Practice Portfolio is an interprofessional support service, aligned with the mission, vision, and values of the organization. The Professional Practice Portfolio is comprised of advanced practice clinicians who support health professionals in their practice.

• The Professional Practice Portfolio provides leadership to enhance the capacity of health professionals to provide compassionate, high quality and family driven care, in partnership with the clinical program and support departments at NYGH.

• We are leading the way to building an interprofessional, collaborative practice culture that fosters clinical excellence and innovation in patient/family driven care.

Professional Practice Framework

Legislation Governing Nursing Practice

The Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991 (RHPA) sets out a

framework for Ontario’s regulated health Professions

The RHPA framework sets out two elements:

1. Scope of practice statement

2. Series of controlled or authorized acts for each profession

(CNO, 2012)

Professional Standards, CNO

• Accountability

• Continuing competence

• Ethics

• Knowledge

• Knowledge application

• Leadership

• Relationships:

Therapeutic nurse-client relationship

Professional relationship

Professional Nursing Practice

Professionalism is characterized by one’s level of knowledge, specialization, intellectual and individual

responsibility, accountability, autonomy, inquiry, collegiality, collaboration, innovation, ethics and values, and sense of

group consciousness (RNAO, 2006)

Utilization of RNs & RPNs

3-FACTOR FRAMEWORK

THE CLIENT

Client Factor Three components:

complexity

predictability

risk of negative outcomes

CNO, 2013

NURSE FACTOR

One profession

Accountability

Foundational knowledge

Enhanced knowledge

Autonomous practice

Consultation

Collaboration

CNO, 2013

CONSULTATION

Consultation outcomes:

The nurse gets advice and continues to care for the

client

The nurse transfers part of the care to the

consultant, or

The nurse transfers all care to the consultant.

ENVIRONMENT FACTOR

Three components:

practice supports

consultation resources

stability and predictability

CNO, 2013

For more information, please contact

Marina Brezinov, Professional Practice Leader for Nursing ext. 6213