Clinical Extern

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Attends to the personal care, nutritional, emotional, mobility, and safety needs of patients.
- Bed Linen Changes
- Personal Care and Grooming
- Toileting
- Answering Bells
- Passing/Collecting Trays
- Stocking Supplies/Carts
- Obtain/Document Vital Signs
- Obtain/Document Weights
- Ambulation/Transfers
- Portering
- Emptying Catheters/Ostomy
- Documenting Intake and Output
- Glucoscans/QC Checks
- Assist with Feeding/Snacks
- Assist with Repositioning
- Assist with Mechanical Lift
- Observe/Report Changes in Patient Condition to Registered Staff
- Directed to Assist with Emergency Situations
- Participates in learning opportunities with Manager/Registered Nurse mentor
- Other duties as delegated by their Manager/Registered Nurse mentor

**Qualifications**:

- BScN students - Must have completed their first year of studies;
- Practical Nursing students - Must have completed their second year of studies;
- Current BCLS;
- Knowledge of body mechanics, and safe patient lift and transfer practices;
- Ability to work within an interdisciplinary team;
- Effective communication skills to provide ongoing support and care for diverse patients and communicate any concerns, changes in the patient’s condition;
- Demonstrated organizational and time management skills;
- Commitment to maintain dignity and self-esteem of patients and families in delivery of care;
- Proficient computer/technological skills, and
- Ability to work under pressure, request assistance when required, and to adapt to change rapidly.

This position is temporary until March 31, 2024, with possibility of extension.

**Please note**: In order to work in a healthcare facility, _the Public Hospitals Act 1990_, _Regulation 965_ requires all employees to provide proof of up-to-date immunization/vaccines for the following diseases: Tuberculin Skin Testing (TB), Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR), Varicella (Chicken Pox), Hepatitis B, Tetanus/Diphtheria (DTap), Influenza (during flu season) and three COVID shots. This proof must be provided to our Occupational Health Office in order to be cleared to work.

**Submit your resumé and covering letter to**:
Michelle Graham, Manager, Human Resources/Labour Relations

Kemptville District Hospital