Nursing Services

Nursing Services

Professional Behaviour/Ethics

Our guiding principles of respect, reliability, patience, professionalism, compassion, ethics, as well as continuous learning and improvement, help us in providing a great experience for our clients. We strive every day to make a difference in the lives of our clients. Source Momentum caregivers are passionate about caring, the go the extra mile to make sure they clients are cared for.

Our registered staff are accountable to the public and are responsible for ensuring that their practice and conduct meet legislative requirements and the standards of their profession, and the expectation of the organization, this Includes:

• Promoting client’s well-being

• Providing and respecting client’s choices in decision making

• Assuring privacy and maintaining confidentiality

• Respecting the sanctity and quality of life

• Decision making when working with unregulated care providers

• Maintaining a commitment with the client, self, the profession, and employer

Nurse-Client Relationship

At Source Momentum HealthCare, our nurses form relationships based on trust, respect, and intimacy that utilizes appropriate approved authority. Therapeutic relationship includes establishing and maintaining appropriate boundaries and recognizing when the relationship crosses these boundaries. As with clients, the interaction with colleagues should also be professional.

Critical Thinking

• Critical thinking involves asking, and considering the answers to a number of questions

• It includes the activities of organizing and is integral to good decision making

• Analyzing information, recognizing patterns and gathering evidence to support the conclusions drawn. 

Source Momentum HealthCare Team of Staff (Safety)

1. Enabling clients to avoid illness and injury by responding to safety risks for clients and health care team members

2. Challenging questionable actions and orders

3. Intervening appropriately in situations of risk

Clinical Skills

1. Assessments

Source Momentum HealthCare expectation all our registered staff remain professional at all times continually improving the application of professional knowledge into practice by using nursing frameworks, theories and/or processes. This includes the performance of clinical skills as the technical and cognitive aspects of care which are closely related.

Our registered staff display professional behaviours by:

• Creating a practice environment that supports quality care

• Establishing and maintaining a communication system that supports quality service

• Researching and supporting, and contributing to practice environments that encourage learning and application of knowledge and research. 

2. Medications

Source Momentum HealthCare nurses are expected to have knowledge of medications administration as it relates to their practice for all their clients. Knowledge and application of these principles are expected according to the College of Nurses guidelines.

3. Documentation

Method used in a practice setting should reflect the client’s care, their needs, and the context of practice. Documentation must be relevant, client focused, comprehensive, accurate and timely as it relates to the policy of Source Momentum HealthCare Services. There must be a clear record of the nursing care that was provided and which identifies who provided the care. The documentation must be permanent, retrievable and kept confidential. When a nurse’s documentation meets these standards, the nurse has met the professional and legislative requirements.

Minimum Requirements for our Registered Staff

Registered Nurses:

• registered with CNO (in good standing)

• recent Canadian working experience 

• experience in emergency or critical care

  • Specialty RNs:

• registered with CNO (in good standing)

• experience and credentials in specialized area 

• recent Canadian working experience 

• experience in emergency or critical care

Registered Practical Nurses: 

• Registered with CNO (in good standing), 

• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) Certificate /

• Telemetry experience 

• demonstrated evidence of ongoing education in cardiac nursing 

• involvement in professional associations 

• other certificates and courses as required by our clients’ needs

Treat the Whole Person

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