Common use of Registered Nurse Clause in Contracts

Registered Nurse. Level 3 (RN3) An employee at this level may also be known as a Clinical Nurse Consultant, Nurse Manager or Nurse Educator. An employee appointed at this level: Holds any other qualification required for working in the employee’s particular practice setting; and is appointed as such by a selection process or by reclassification from a lower level when that the employee is required to perform the duties detailed in this subclause on a continuing basis. In addition to the duties of an RN2, an employee at this level will perform the following duties in accordance with practice settings and patient or client groups: Duties of a Clinical Nurse Consultant will substantially include, but are not confined to:  Providing leadership and role modelling, in collaboration with others including the Nurse Manager and the Nurse Educator, particularly in the areas of action research and quality assurance programs;  Staff and patient/client education; staff selection, management, development and appraisal; Participating in policy development and implementation;  Acting as a consultant on request in the employee’s own area of proficiency for the purpose of facilitating the provision of quality nursing care;  Delivering direct and comprehensive nursing care to a specific group of patients or clients with complex nursing care needs, in a particular area of nursing practice within a practice setting;  Coordinating, and ensuring the maintenance of standards of the nursing care of a specific group or population of patients or clients within a practice setting; and  Coordinating or managing nursing or multidisciplinary service teams providing acute nursing and community services. Duties of a Nurse Manager will substantially include, but are not confined to:  Providing leadership and role modelling, in collaboration with others Including the Clinical Nurse Consultant and the Nurse Educator, particularly in the areas of action research and quality assurance programs;  Staff selection and education; allocation and rostering of staff;  Occupational health;  Initiation and evaluation of research related to staff and resource management;  Participating in policy development and implementation;  Acting as a consultant on request in the employee’s own area of proficiency (for the purpose of facilitating the provision of quality nursing care);  Being accountable for the management of human and material resources within a specified span of control, including the development and evaluation of staffing methodologies; and  Managing financial matters, budget preparation and cost control in respect of nursing within that span of control. Duties of a Nurse Educator will substantially include, but are not confined to:  Providing leadership and role modelling, in collaboration with others including the Clinical Nurse Consultant and the Nurse Manager, particularly in the areas of action research;  Implementation and evaluation of staff education and development programs;  Staff selection;  Implementation and evaluation of patient or client education programs;

Registered Nurse. A Registered Nurse is a nurse who holds current registration as a registered nurse with the Board. A. 4.1 Registered Nurse Level 3 1 (RN3RN1) An employee appointed at this level performs their duties: According to their level of competence; and under the general guidance of, or with general access to a more competent Registered Nurse (RN) who provides work related support and direction. An employee at this level may also be known as a Clinical Nurse Consultantis required to perform general nursing duties which include substantially, Nurse Manager but are not confined to:  Delivering direct and comprehensive nursing care and individual case management to patients or Nurse Educatorclients within the practice setting;  Coordinating services, including those of other disciplines or agencies, to individual patients or clients within the practice setting;  Providing education, counselling and group work services orientated towards the promotion of health status improvement of patients and clients within the practice setting;  Providing support, direction and education to newer or less experienced staff, including EN’s, and student nurses;  Accepting accountability for the employee’s own standards of nursing care and service delivery; and  Participating in action research and policy development within the practice setting. A. 4.2 Registered nurse Level 2 (RN2) An employee appointed at this levellevel may be an RN, CNS or CNE: Holds any other qualification required for working in the employee’s particular practice setting; and is appointed as such by a selection process or by reclassification from a lower level when that the employee is required to perform the duties detailed in this subclause on a continuing basis. In addition to the duties of an RN2RN1, an employee at this level will is required, to perform the following duties delegated by a nurse in accordance with practice settings and patient or client groups: a higher classification. Duties of a Clinical Nurse Consultant Level 2 nurse will substantially include, but are not confined to:  Providing leadership and role modelling, in collaboration with others including the Nurse Manager and the Nurse Educator, particularly in the areas of action research and quality assurance programs;  Staff and patient/client education; staff selection, management, development and appraisal; Participating in policy development and implementation;  Acting as a consultant on request in the employee’s own area of proficiency for the purpose of facilitating the provision of quality nursing care;  Delivering direct and comprehensive nursing care and individual case management to a specific group of patients or clients with complex nursing care needs, in a particular area of nursing practice within a the practice setting;  CoordinatingProviding support, direction, orientation and ensuring education to RN1’s, EN’s and student nurses;  Being responsible for planning and coordinating services relating to a particular group of clients or patients in the maintenance practice setting, as delegated by a nurse in a higher classification;  Acting as a role model in the provision of standards of the nursing holistic care of a specific group or population of to patients or clients within a in the practice setting; and  Coordinating Assisting in the management of action research projects, and participating in quality assurance programs and policy development within the practice setting. Clinical Nurse Specialist (Employer Appointed Position) In residential aged care facilities where there are 250 or managing nursing more beds: A Registered Nurse with specific post registration qualifications and twelve months experience working in the clinical area of the employee’s specified post registration qualification; or multidisciplinary service teams providing acute nursing a Registered Nurse with four years’ post registration experience in a specific clinical area and community servicesworking in the clinical area of their specified post registration experience. Duties In residential aged care facilities where there are less than 250 beds: A Registered Nurse with specific post registration qualifications and twelve months experience working in the clinical areas of their post registration qualification. Clinical Nurse Educator (Employer Appointed Position) Means a registered nurse with relevant post registration certificate qualifications or experience deemed appropriate by the Employer, who is required to implement and evaluate educational programmes for the Employer. The Clinical Nurse Manager will substantially include, but are not confined to:  Providing leadership Educator shall cater for the delivery of clinical nurse education and may also be responsible for the orientation of new employees. Nothing in this classification definition shall affect the role modelling, in collaboration with others Including carried out by the Clinical Nurse Specialist as a specialist resource and the Clinical Nurse Consultant and the Nurse Educator, particularly in the areas primary role of action research and quality assurance programs;  Staff selection and education; allocation and rostering of staff;  Occupational health;  Initiation and evaluation of research related to staff and resource management;  Participating in policy development and implementation;  Acting as a consultant on request in the employee’s own area of proficiency (for the purpose of facilitating the provision of quality nursing care);  Being accountable for the management of human and material resources within a specified span of controlclinical consulting, including the development and evaluation of staffing methodologies; and  Managing financial mattersresearching, budget preparation and cost control in respect of nursing within that span of controletc. Duties of a Nurse Educator will substantially include, but are not confined to:  Providing leadership and role modelling, in collaboration with others including the Clinical Nurse Consultant and the Nurse Manager, particularly in the areas of action research;  Implementation and evaluation of staff education and development programs;  Staff selection;  Implementation and evaluation of patient or client education programs;A.

Registered Nurse. A Registered Nurse is a nurse who holds current registration as a registered nurse with the Board. A. 4.1 Registered Nurse Level 1 (RN1) An Employee appointed at this level performs their duties: According to their level of competence; and under the general guidance of, or with general access to a more competent Registered Nurse (RN) who provides work related support and direction. An Employee at this level is required to perform general nursing duties which include substantially, but are not confined to: • Delivering direct and comprehensive nursing care and individual case management to patients or clients within the practice setting; • Coordinating services, including those of other disciplines or agencies, to individual patients or clients within the practice setting; • Providing education, counselling and group work services orientated towards the promotion of health status improvement of patients and clients within the practice setting; • Providing support, direction and education to newer or less experienced staff, including EN’s, and student nurses; • Accepting accountability for the Employee’s own standards of nursing care and service delivery; and • Participating in action research and policy development within the practice setting. A. 4.2 Registered nurse Level 2 (RN2) An Employee appointed at this level may be an RN, CNS or CNE: Holds any other qualification required for working in the Employee’s particular practice setting; and is appointed as such by a selection process or by reclassification from a lower level when the Employee is 4.3 Registered Nurse Level 3 (RN3) An employee Employee at this level may also be known as a Clinical Nurse Consultant, Nurse Manager or Nurse Educator. An employee Employee appointed at this level: Holds any other qualification required for working in the employeeEmployee’s particular practice setting; and is appointed as such by a selection process or by reclassification from a lower level when that the employee Employee is required to perform the duties detailed in this subclause on a continuing basis. 4.4 Registered Nurse Level 4 (RN4) An Employee at this level may also be known as an Assistant Director of Nursing (clinical), Assistant Director of Nursing (management), or Assistant Director of Nursing (education). An Employee appointed at this level: Holds any other qualification required for working in the Employee’s particular practice setting; and is appointed as such by a selection process or by reclassification from a lower level when the Employee is required to perform the duties detailed in this subclause on a continuing basis. Appointment at a particular grade at this level will depend upon the level of complexity associated with the duties described in this clause. The number of beds in a facility will be a relevant consideration. 4.5 Registered Nurse Level 5 (RN5) An Employee at this level may also be known as a Director of Nursing. An Employee appointed at this level: Holds any other qualification required for working in the Employee’s particular practice setting; and is appointed as such by a selection process or by reclassification from a lower level when the Employee is required to perform the duties detailed in this subclause on a continuing basis. Appointment at a particular grade at this level will depend upon the level of complexity associated with the duties described in this clause. The number of beds in a facility will be a relevant consideration. In addition to the duties of an RN2RN4, an employee Employee at this level will perform the following duties duties: • Being accountable for the standards of nursing care for the health unit and for coordination of the nursing service of the health unit; • Participating as a member of the executive of the health unit, being accountable to the executive for the development and evaluation of nursing policy, and generally contributing to the development of health unit policy; • Providing leadership, direction and management of the nursing division of the health unit in accordance with practice settings policies, philosophies, objectives and patient or client groups: Duties goals established through consultation with staff and in accordance with the directions of a Clinical Nurse Consultant will substantially include, but are not confined to:  the Board of Directors of the health unit; • Providing leadership and role modelling, in collaboration with others including the Nurse Manager and the Nurse Educatorothers, particularly in the areas of action research and quality assurance programs;  Staff and patient/client education; staff selection, management, development promotion of participative decision making and appraisal; Participating in policy development decentralisation of nursing management and implementation;  Acting as a consultant on request in the employee’s own area of proficiency generally advocating for the purpose of facilitating the provision of quality nursing care;  Delivering direct and comprehensive nursing care to a specific group of patients or clients with complex nursing care needs, in a particular area interests of nursing practice within a practice settingto the executive team of the health unit;  Coordinating• Managing the budget of the nursing division of the health unit; • Ensuring that nursing services meeting changing needs of clients or patients through proper strategic planning; and • Complying, and ensuring the maintenance compliance of standards others, with the code of ethics and legal requirements of the nursing care of a specific group or population of patients or clients within a practice setting; and  Coordinating or managing nursing or multidisciplinary service teams providing acute nursing and community services. Duties of a Nurse Manager will substantially include, but are not confined to:  Providing leadership and role modelling, in collaboration with others Including the Clinical Nurse Consultant and the Nurse Educator, particularly in the areas of action research and quality assurance programs;  Staff selection and education; allocation and rostering of staff;  Occupational health;  Initiation and evaluation of research related to staff and resource management;  Participating in policy development and implementation;  Acting as a consultant on request in the employee’s own area of proficiency (for the purpose of facilitating the provision of quality nursing care);  Being accountable for the management of human and material resources within a specified span of control, including the development and evaluation of staffing methodologies; and  Managing financial matters, budget preparation and cost control in respect of nursing within that span of control. Duties of a Nurse Educator will substantially include, but are not confined to:  Providing leadership and role modelling, in collaboration with others including the Clinical Nurse Consultant and the Nurse Manager, particularly in the areas of action research;  Implementation and evaluation of staff education and development programs;  Staff selection;  Implementation and evaluation of patient or client education programs;profession.

Registered Nurse. Level 3 (RN3) An employee at this level may also be known as a Clinical Nurse Consultant, Nurse Manager or Nurse Educator. An employee appointed at this level: Holds any other qualification required for working in the employee’s particular practice setting; and is appointed as such by a selection process or by reclassification from a lower level when that the employee is required to perform the duties detailed in this subclause on a continuing basis. In addition to the duties of an RN2, an employee at this level will perform the following duties in accordance with practice settings and patient or client groups: Duties of a Clinical Nurse Consultant will substantially include, but are not confined to:  • Providing leadership and role modelling, in collaboration with others including the Nurse Manager and the Nurse Educator, particularly in the areas of action research and quality assurance programs;  • Staff and patient/client education; staff selection, management, development and appraisal; Participating in policy development and implementation;  • Acting as a consultant on request in the employee’s own area of proficiency for the purpose of facilitating the provision of quality nursing care;  • Delivering direct and comprehensive nursing care to a specific group of patients or clients with complex nursing care needs, in a particular area of nursing practice within a practice setting;  • Coordinating, and ensuring the maintenance of standards of the nursing care of a specific group or population of patients or clients within a practice setting; and  • Coordinating or managing nursing or multidisciplinary service teams providing acute nursing and community services. Duties of a Nurse Manager will substantially include, but are not confined to:  • Providing leadership and role modelling, in collaboration with others Including the Clinical Nurse Consultant and the Nurse Educator, particularly in the areas of action research and quality assurance programs;  • Staff selection and education; allocation and rostering of staff;  • Occupational health;  • Initiation and evaluation of research related to staff and resource management;  • Participating in policy development and implementation;  • Acting as a consultant on request in the employee’s own area of proficiency (for the purpose of facilitating the provision of quality nursing care);  • Being accountable for the management of human and material resources within a specified span of control, including the development and evaluation of staffing methodologies; and  • Managing financial matters, budget preparation and cost control in respect of nursing within that span of control. Duties of a Nurse Educator will substantially include, but are not confined to:  • Providing leadership and role modelling, in collaboration with others including the Clinical Nurse Consultant and the Nurse Manager, particularly in the areas of action research;  • Implementation and evaluation of staff education and development programs;  • Staff selection;  • Implementation and evaluation of patient or client education programs;

Registered Nurse. Midwife (Level 3 (RN3) 1): Employees classified at this level provide nursing and/or midwifery services in primary health, secondary, tertiary or quaternary service settings. Roles within this level consolidate knowledge and skills and develop in capability through continuous professional development and experience. An employee at this level may also be known accepts accountability for own standards of nursing/midwifery care and for activities delegated to others. Employees in these roles will, with increasing capability: • Provide direct nursing/midwifery care and/or individual case management to patients/clients on a shift by shift basis in a defined clinical area; • Assess individual patient/client needs, plan and implement or coordinate appropriate service delivery from a range of accepted options; • Provide health education, counselling and rehabilitation programs to improve the health outcomes of individual patients/clients or groups; • Plan and coordinate services with other disciplines or agencies in providing individual’s health care needs; • Participate in quality assurance and/or evaluative research activities within practice setting; • Contribute to patient safety, risk minimisation and safe work activities within the practice setting; • Use foundation theoretical knowledge and evidence based guidelines and apply these to a range of activities to achieve agreed patient care outcomes; • Practice as a Registered Nurse within a nursing model established to support patient/client centred care or, as a Registered Midwife work in partnership with women respecting and supporting their right to self determination in the life processes of pregnancy, birthing and parenthood; • Contribute to procedures for effectively dealing with people exhibiting challenging behaviours; • Review decisions, assessments and recommendations from less experienced Registered Nurses/Registered Midwives and Enrolled Nurses and students; • Provide support and guidance to newer or less experienced staff, Enrolled Nurses student nurses and other workers providing basic nursing care; • Support nursing/midwifery practice learning experiences for students undertaking clinical placements, orientation for new staff and preceptorship of graduates; • Continue own professional development, seek learning opportunities and develop and maintain own professional development portfolio of learning and experience. Clinical Nurse ConsultantNurse/Midwife (Level 2): Employees classified at this level provide advanced nursing and/or midwifery services in primary health, Nurse Manager secondary, tertiary or Nurse Educatorquaternary service settings. The activities required of roles at this level are predominantly clinical in nature. Work at this level is undertaken by employees with at least 3 years post registration experience. An employee appointed at this levellevel accepts accountability for own practice standards, activities delegated to others and the guidance and development of less experienced staff. Employees in these roles will: Holds any • Provide proficient clinical nursing/midwifery care and/or individual case management to patients/clients in a defined clinical area; • Assess patients/clients needs, plan, implement and coordinate appropriate service delivery options and communicate changes in condition and care; • Oversee the provision of nursing/midwifery care within a team or unit; • Provide health education, counselling and rehabilitation programs to improve the health outcomes of individual patients/clients or groups; • Plan and coordinate services including those of other qualification disciplines or agencies as required to meet individual and/or group health care needs; • Monitor client care plans and participate in clinical auditing and/or evaluative research to ensure appropriate patient care outcomes are achieved on a daily basis; • Demonstrate and promote a risk minimisation approach to practice and support implementation and maintenance of systems to protect patients and staff; • Integrate advanced theoretical knowledge, evidence from a range of sources and own experience to devise and achieve agreed patient care outcomes; • Work within and promote a nursing model of client centred care or midwifery model of partnership and support for working women’s right to self determination in life processes; • Act to resolve local and/or immediate nursing care or service delivery problems; • Support change management processes; • Contribute to communication processes that effectively deal with challenging behaviours and the resolution of conflicts; • Work within a local nursing/midwifery leadership team to attain consistency of nursing/midwifery practice standards and local service outcomes; • Participate in clinical teaching, overseeing learning experiences, and goal setting for students, new staff and staff with less experience; • Act as a resource person within an area based on knowledge, experience and skills; • Manage own professional development activities and portfolio, support the development of others and contribute to learning in the employee’s particular practice setting; and is appointed as such by a selection process or by reclassification from a lower level when that the employee is required to perform the duties detailed in this subclause on a continuing basiswork area. In addition to the duties foregoing the employee may: • Be required to participate in and/or provide clinical teaching and/or research; • Be required to contribute to a wider or external area team working on complex or organisation wide projects such as clinical protocols, guidelines, process mapping; • Be required to undertake a specific activity and/or portfolio to support the practice area/Health Unit; • Be required, within pre-determined guidelines, and in a multi multidisciplinary primary health care setting, to assess clients, select and implement different therapeutic interventions and/or support programs and evaluate client progress. Associate Clinical Service Coordinator (Level 2): In the course of fulfilling the role of Clinical Nurse/Midwife, the Associate Clinical Service Coordinator role provides specific support to the Nursing/Midwifery Clinical Service Coordinator role in the leadership of nurses/midwives in the unit. Associate Clinical Service Coordinators must be appointed through a merit based selection process. Within the requirements of the Clinical Nurse/Midwife role, employees in these roles will undertake an RN2Associate Coordinator portfolio within which they will: • Promote continuity and consistency of care in collaboration with other Associate Clinical Service Coordinators and the Clinical Service Coordinator of the xxxx/unit; • Assist the Nursing/Midwifery Clinical Service Coordinator in ongoing communication and implementation of practice changes; • Assist the Nursing/Midwifery Clinical Service Coordinator to maintain and record monitoring and evaluative research activities in the xxxx/unit; • Assist the Nursing/Midwifery Clinical Service Coordinator and Nursing/Midwifery Educators to maintain a learning culture by encouraging reflection and professional development and assisting others to maintain portfolios/records of learning, an employee and • May be required to assist the Nursing/Midwifery Clinical Service Coordinator in undertaking performance management processes and/or rostering and/or oversight of supplies and/or equipment. Nurse/Midwife Clinical Service Coordinator (Level 3): Employees classified at this level will perform use their clinical knowledge and experience to provide the following duties in accordance with practice settings and patient or client groups: Duties pivotal co- ordination of a Clinical Nurse Consultant will substantially include, but are not confined to:  Providing leadership and role modelling, in collaboration with others including the Nurse Manager and the Nurse Educator, particularly in the areas of action research and quality assurance programs;  Staff and patient/client education; staff selection, care delivery in a defined xxxx/unit/value stream or program within a Health Unit/Community Service. The main focus of this role is the line management, development coordination and appraisal; Participating leadership of nursing/midwifery team activities to achieve continuity and quality of patient/client care. Work at this level is undertaken by employees with at least 3 years post registration experience. Employees in policy development and implementation;  Acting as a consultant on request this role accept accountability for the outcomes of nursing/midwifery practices in the employee’s own area of proficiency for the purpose of facilitating the provision of quality nursing care;  Delivering direct and comprehensive nursing care to a specific group of patients or clients with complex nursing care needs, in a particular area of nursing practice within a practice setting;  Coordinating, for addressing inconsistencies between practice and ensuring the maintenance of standards of the nursing care of a specific group or population of patients or clients within a practice settingpolicy; and  Coordinating or managing nursing or multidisciplinary service teams providing acute nursing for developing team performance and community servicesa positive work culture in the interest of patient/client outcomes. Duties of a Nurse Manager will substantially includeVarious practice models may be adopted by health services to enact this role, including but are not confined limited to:  Providing - Primarily leading a patient care area/nursing/midwifery clinical practice/service team; - Undertaking a combination of patient care area/ team leadership and role modelling, in collaboration with others Including the Clinical Nurse Consultant and the Nurse Educator, particularly in the areas of action research and quality assurance programs;  Staff selection and education; allocation and rostering of staff;  Occupational health;  Initiation and evaluation of research related to staff and resource management;  Participating All employees in policy these roles will: • Coordinate and oversee nursing/midwifery care and health service delivery for a specified xxxx/unit/value stream or program; • Lead the nursing/midwifery team within the professional practice framework established by the Director of Nursing; • Integrate contemporary information and research evidence with personal experience to support the decision making, innovative thinking and objective analysis that are expected at this level; • Maintain productive working relationships and manage conflict resolution; • Develop and maintain a learning environment, taking a coaching approach to team development, individual capability development and implementationperformance management;  Acting as a consultant on request in the employee’s own area of proficiency (for the purpose of facilitating the provision of quality nursing care);  Being accountable for the management of human • Implement and material resources co-ordinate within a specified span of control, including the development processes for quality improvement and evaluation of staffing methodologiescontinuity within corporate risk management and nursing/midwifery professional practice frameworks; • Use available information systems to inform decision making, evaluate outcomes and  Managing financial matters, budget preparation and cost control in respect of nursing within that span of control. Duties of a Nurse Educator will substantially include, but are not confined to:  Providing leadership and role modelling, in collaboration with others including the Clinical Nurse Consultant and the Nurse Manager, particularly in the areas of action research;  Implementation and evaluation of staff education and development programs;  Staff selection;  Implementation and evaluation of patient or client education programsconvey information to staff;

Registered Nurse. Level 3 (RN3) An employee at this level may also be known as a Clinical Nurse Consultant, Nurse Manager or Nurse Educator. An employee appointed at this level: Holds any other qualification required for working in the employee’s employee‟s particular practice setting; and is appointed as such by a selection process or by reclassification from a lower level when that the employee is required to perform the duties detailed in this subclause on a continuing basis. In addition to the duties of an RN2, an employee at this level will perform the following duties in accordance with practice settings and patient or client groups: Duties of a Clinical Nurse Consultant will substantially include, but are not confined to:  • Providing leadership and role modelling, in collaboration with others including the Nurse Manager and the Nurse Educator, particularly in the areas of action research and quality assurance programs;  • Staff and patient/client education; staff selection, management, development and appraisal; Participating in policy development and implementation;  • Acting as a consultant on request in the employee’s employee‟s own area of proficiency for the purpose of facilitating the provision of quality nursing care;  • Delivering direct and comprehensive nursing care to a specific group of patients or clients with complex nursing care needs, in a particular area of nursing practice within a practice setting;  • Coordinating, and ensuring the maintenance of standards of the nursing care of a specific group or population of patients or clients within a practice setting; and  • Coordinating or managing nursing or multidisciplinary service teams providing acute nursing and community services. Duties of a Nurse Manager will substantially include, but are not confined to:  • Providing leadership and role modelling, in collaboration with others Including the Clinical Nurse Consultant and the Nurse Educator, particularly in the areas of action research and quality assurance programs;  • Staff selection and education; allocation and rostering of staff;  • Occupational health;  • Initiation and evaluation of research related to staff and resource management;  • Participating in policy development and implementation;  • Acting as a consultant on request in the employee’s employee‟s own area of proficiency (for the purpose of facilitating the provision of quality nursing care);  • Being accountable for the management of human and material resources within a specified span of control, including the development and evaluation of staffing methodologies; and  • Managing financial matters, budget preparation and cost control in respect of nursing within that span of control. Duties of a Nurse Educator will substantially include, but are not confined to:  • Providing leadership and role modelling, in collaboration with others including the Clinical Nurse Consultant and the Nurse Manager, particularly in the areas of action research;  • Implementation and evaluation of staff education and development programs;  Staff selection;  Implementation and evaluation of patient or client education programs;;  Participating in policy development and implementation;  Acting as a consultant on request in the employee‟s own area of proficiency (for the purpose of facilitating the provision of quality nursing care); and

Registered Nurse. Level 3 (RN3) An employee at this level may also be known as a Clinical Nurse Consultant, Nurse Manager or Nurse Educator. An employee appointed at this level: Holds any other qualification required for working in the employee’s employee‟s particular practice setting; and is appointed as such by a selection process or by reclassification from a lower level when that the employee is required to perform the duties detailed in this subclause on a continuing basis. In addition to the duties of an RN2, an employee at this level will perform the following duties in accordance with practice settings and patient or client groups: Duties of a Clinical Nurse Consultant will substantially include, but are not confined to:  • Providing leadership and role modelling, in collaboration with others including the Nurse Manager and the Nurse Educator, particularly in the areas of action research and quality assurance programs;  • Staff and patient/client education; staff selection, management, development and appraisal; Participating in policy development and implementation;  • Acting as a consultant on request in the employee’s employee‟s own area of proficiency for the purpose of facilitating the provision of quality nursing care;  • Delivering direct and comprehensive nursing care to a specific group of patients or clients with complex nursing care needs, in a particular area of nursing practice within a practice setting;  • Coordinating, and ensuring the maintenance of standards of the nursing care of a specific group or population of patients or clients within a practice setting; and  • Coordinating or managing nursing or multidisciplinary service teams providing acute nursing and community services. Duties of a Nurse Manager will substantially include, but are not confined to:  • Providing leadership and role modelling, in collaboration with others Including the Clinical Nurse Consultant and the Nurse Educator, particularly in the areas of action research and quality assurance programs;  • Staff selection and education; allocation and rostering of staff;  • Occupational health;  • Initiation and evaluation of research related to staff and resource management;  • Participating in policy development and implementation;  • Acting as a consultant on request in the employee’s employee‟s own area of proficiency (for the purpose of facilitating the provision of quality nursing care);  • Being accountable for the management of human and material resources within a specified span of control, including the development and evaluation of staffing methodologies; and  • Managing financial matters, budget preparation and cost control in respect of nursing within that span of control. Duties of a Nurse Educator will substantially include, but are not confined to:  • Providing leadership and role modelling, in collaboration with others including the Clinical Nurse Consultant and the Nurse Manager, particularly in the areas of action research;  • Implementation and evaluation of staff education and development programs;  Staff selection;  Implementation and evaluation of patient or client education programs;

Registered Nurse. Level 3 (RN3) An employee at this level may also be known as a Clinical Nurse Consultant, Nurse Manager or Nurse Educator. An employee appointed at this level: Holds any other qualification required for working in the employee’s particular practice setting; and is appointed as such by a selection process or by reclassification from a lower level when that the employee is required to perform the duties detailed in this subclause on a continuing basis. In addition to the duties of an RN2, an employee at this level will perform the following duties in accordance with practice settings and patient or client groups: Duties of a Clinical Nurse Consultant will substantially include, but are not confined to:  • Providing leadership and role modelling, in collaboration with others including the Nurse Manager and the Nurse Educator, particularly in the areas of action research and quality assurance programs;  • Staff and patient/client education; staff selection, management, development and appraisal; Participating in policy development and implementation;  • Acting as a consultant on request in the employee’s own area of proficiency for the purpose of facilitating the provision of quality nursing care;  • Delivering direct and comprehensive nursing care to a specific group of patients or clients with complex nursing care needs, in a particular area of nursing practice within a practice setting;  • Coordinating, and ensuring the maintenance of standards of the nursing care of a specific group or population of patients or clients within a practice setting; and  • Coordinating or managing nursing or multidisciplinary service teams providing acute nursing and community services. Duties of a Nurse Manager will substantially include, but are not confined to:  • Providing leadership and role modelling, in collaboration with others Including the Clinical Nurse Consultant and the Nurse Educator, particularly in the areas of action research and quality assurance programs;  • Staff selection and education; allocation and rostering of staff;  • Occupational health;  • Initiation and evaluation of research related to staff and resource management;  • Participating in policy development and implementation;  • Acting as a consultant on request in the employee’s own area of proficiency (for the purpose of facilitating the provision of quality nursing care);  • Being accountable for the management of human and material resources within a specified span of control, including the development and evaluation of staffing methodologies; and  • Managing financial matters, budget preparation and cost control in respect of nursing within that span of control. Duties of a Nurse Educator will substantially include, but are not confined to:  • Providing leadership and role modelling, in collaboration with others including the Clinical Nurse Consultant and the Nurse Manager, particularly in the areas of action research;  • Implementation and evaluation of staff education and development programs;  • Staff selection;  • Implementation and evaluation of patient or client education programs;; • Participating in policy development and implementation; • Acting as a consultant on request in the employee’s own area of proficiency (for the purpose of facilitating the provision of quality nursing care); and