RN/LPN/RPN - Provincial Travel Nurse Team - Northern - Priority

Shared Health leads the planning and coordinates the integration of patient-centered clinical and preventive health services across Manitoba. The organization also delivers some province-wide health services and supports centralized administrative and business functions for Manitoba health organizations.

Salary: $41.733, $43.191, $44.652, $46.173, $47.665, $49.208, $50.191, $51.196.

Position Overview

Under the general supervision of the Manager - Provincial Travel Nurse Team, the Registered Nurse (RN), Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RPN) is responsible for providing professional nursing services for patients, including those with complex and unpredictable health needs. These services include independent nursing services, administration of prescribed medical treatments, a leadership role within the healthcare team, and facilitating coordination of patient care and discharge. Demonstrates a commitment to the vision, values, goals, and objectives of the region/facility/unit.

Northern Health Region (NHR) Priority

This is a Provincial Travel Nurse position. Assignments will change based on operational requirements, and flexibility to work across multiple sites within Manitoba is required. Successful nurses must be willing to work in any of the below initial areas of focus within NHR.

• Thompson General Hospital – ED/Special Care Unit (SCU) and/or Operating Room and/or Obstetrics
• Gillam Hospital
• St. Anthony’s General Hospital (The Pas) – ED/SCU
• Skillset: Emergency, Obstetrics, Operating Room, Medicine, and/or Special Care Unit

Experience

• Satisfactory employment record is required.
• Critical Care, Operating Room, Post Anesthesia Care Unit:
  • Minimum two (2) years recent relevant experience.
• Dialysis, Emergency, Home Care, Medicine, Mental Health, Surgery:
  • Minimum one (1) year recent relevant experience.
• Long Term Care:
  • RN/LPN/RPN: Minimum one (1) year recent experience in a long-term care setting required.
  • Experience in Geriatrics and dementia care preferred.
  • Experience in mental health and addictions care preferred.
• Obstetrics/Neonatal/Gynecology:
  • RN/LPN- Minimum one (1) year recent work experience in one of the following areas: labor & delivery, maternal newborn, NICU and/or surgical nursing required.
• Oncology/Cancer Care:
  • RN- Minimum one (1) year recent hematology oncology experience and Community Cancer Program required.
  • Experience with ARIA required.

Education (Degree/Diploma/Certificate)

• Graduate of an approved Registered Nursing, Licensed Practical Nursing program or Psychiatric Nursing program is required.
• Current BLS (Basic Life Support) certification required.
• Critical Care:
  • CRRT (Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy) preferred.
  • Current ACLS (Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support) certification preferred.
  • PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support ) preferred.
• Dialysis:
  • Successful completion of the MNNC (Manitoba Nephrology Nursing Course) or a post-basic Nephrology Nursing program is required.
• Emergency:
  • Current CTAS (Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale) certification required.
  • Successful completion of WRHA Emergency Nursing Orientation (ENO) Level 1,2 ,3 training or equivalent.
  • Current TNCC (Trauma Nursing Core Course) required.
  • EPICC Trauma (Emergency Practice or Interventions and Care Canada) preferred.
  • EPICC Foundations preferred.
  • ENPC (Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course) preferred.
  • Current ACLS (Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support) certification required.
  • PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support ) preferred.
• Home Care:
  • CNA Community Health Nurses Certification or relevant applicable certification preferred.
  • Additional wound care and chronic disease management education preferred.
• Medicine:
  • Current ACLS (Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support) certification preferred.
• Obstetrics/Neonatal/Gynecology:
  • Current NRP (Neonatal Resuscitation Program Certification) required.
  • Current FHS (Fetal Health Surveillance) (Canadian Context) required.
  • ACoRN (Acute care of at Risk Newborns) preferred.
• Oncology/Cancer Care:
  • Successful completion of Community Cancer Program Network Orientation required.
  • Evidence of current and continuing competence in cancer chemotherapy as per Provincial Cancer Care Program Network standards required.
  • CNA certification in Oncology preferred.
• Operating Room:
  • Successful completion of AORN