Nurse Practitioner

3 weeks ago

Peterborough, Ontario, Canada VON Canada Full time
Job Summary

The Registered Nurse is responsible for providing high-quality, client-centered care to individuals and families in their homes and community. This role requires a detail-oriented approach in a dynamic environment, with physical activity including lifting, carrying, bending, reaching, kneeling, and other movements that emphasize good body mechanics.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Manages and coordinates care; evaluates health outcomes; educates, counsels, and advocates for individuals to meet health goals.
  • Provides all levels of nursing care, whether caring for stable clients with predictable outcomes or unpredictable outcomes and whose health needs are acute, complex, and rapidly changing.
  • Provides cost-effective, organized, outcome-directed care on an ongoing basis and assigns/delegates care as necessary.
  • Provides service consistent with the standards established by VON and provincial regulatory body and Community Health Nurses of Canada.
  • Provides complete, relevant assessment of the client, family, and caregiver and their environment utilizing pre-set procedures.
  • Develops a care plan with the client and family or caregiver based on the nursing assessment.
  • Incorporates discharge planning into the care plan as required.
  • Implements nursing strategies or interventions according to the established care plan.
  • Performs technical nursing skills at a safe level in accordance with nursing principles and VON policies and procedures.
  • Describes and documents nursing processes clearly, concisely, accurately, and appropriately, according to regulatory and VON standards.
  • Describes and documents client's, family's, or caregiver's responses to care plan using established procedures.
  • Utilizes appropriate interviewing and communication skills to obtain information from the client, family, or caregiver.
  • Evaluates client's, family's, or caregiver's responses to care plan for the achievement of realistic client-centered outcomes and revises plan as required.
  • Promotes involvement of client, family, or caregiver in determining health and service needs.
  • Supports the health and well-being of clients and families and client and family engagement in care to support independence.
  • Negotiates with client, family, or caregiver as necessary to ensure the effective delivery of care while respecting client choices.
  • Analyses and incorporates current research findings into clinical practice.
  • Reports and discusses client's status on a regular basis with other members of the health care team.
  • Documents rationale for referrals, increase, and decrease in visits, and for discharge based on relevant, sound data and established guidelines.
  • Refers clients to appropriate categories of nursing providers, support providers, and to other disciplines utilizing established guidelines.
  • Identifies and utilizes tools and resources for relevant work and manages these resources.
  • Works collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team and acts as a clinical resource and mentor for other care providers, staff, and students.
  • Promotes client-directed care, self-care, and independence through teaching and health promotion.
  • Utilizes adult learning principles and established teaching materials to provide health teaching to clients and families.
  • Shares clinical knowledge to enable clients, families, and the community to make informed choices in determining health and service needs.
  • Influences policy review and development in health care and nursing practice standards through involvement in VON, regulatory, professional organizations, and community organizations.
  • Practices in accordance with the quality and risk management framework of VON Canada and Occupational Health and Safety legislation.
  • Plans, implements, evaluates, and adjusts care in accordance with client-focused expectations by seeking input from clients to assure that services meet needs.
  • Participates in decision-making of client care plans and follows up to promote continuous quality improvement.
  • Functions in accordance with the VON policies, procedures, and strategic direction of VON Canada.
  • Collaborates with management staff and colleagues in the evaluation of own practice and maintains competence through continuing education and self-reflection.
Education, Designations, and Experience:
  • Must be Licensed as a Registered Nurse in the province of practice.
  • Canadian Nurses Association certification in Community Health Nursing as an asset.
  • For positions requiring expertise in a specific field of clinical practice, additional degrees or certificates may be required.
  • Clinical practice experience is an asset.
  • Experience in community health is an asset.
Skill Requirements:
  • Ability to observe and make effective assessment of clinical issues.
  • Able to initiate and support health teaching, facilitation, and development.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills that allow for effective engagement with clients, staff, and the public.
  • Strong interpersonal relationship building skills.
  • Ability to be independent with decision-making.
  • Ability to problem solve and to adapt nursing interventions as appropriate.
  • Ability to work collaboratively as a member of an interdisciplinary team.
  • The capacity to adhere to strict confidentiality.
  • Able to articulate effectively knowledge of components of quality and risk management principles as they relate to clinical practices.
  • Effective time management skills that allow for the independent planning and organizing of daily work activity.
Other:
  • A current and original copy of a satisfactory Criminal Records Check.
  • A Vulnerable Sector Search and/or a Child Abuse Registry Check may be required.
  • Available to work flexible hours.
  • The use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) may be required.

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