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FULL-TIME 10 - MONTH POSITION AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY. Posting will close once a suitable candidate is hired.
The Regina Community Clinic is a multi-disciplinary primary health care clinic where practitioners practice as part of high-functioning health care teams. The Clinic provides comprehensive primary care services focusing on health promotion, disease prevention, chronic disease management and supportive care. Services at the Clinic include: Lab, X-ray, ECG, Mental Health Counselling, Lifestyle Counselling Services (Exercise Specialist and Nutritionists), refugee health care and an FASD Diagnostic Centre.
The NP assesses patients, diagnoses, and treats uncomplicated episodic illnesses, screens for and monitors common chronic diseases. The NP will also work in the refugee health program.
Qualifications
Bachelor or Master's Degree in Nursing
Advanced Primary Care Nurse Certificate or Nurse Practitioner Diploma
Registered Nurse (NP) with the SRNA
Current Basic Cardiac Life Support Certificate
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Advanced nursing knowledge of primary health care that emphasizes client-centered, holistic care, health promotion, and disease prevention
Understanding of and a sensitivity towards diverse ethnic and cultural groups
Knowledge of community services and agencies
Self-motivated
Sound clinical judgement and diagnostic reasoning skills to be able to synthesize health assessment information to identity a health problem or make a medical diagnosis
Knowledge and ability to apply the principles of patho-physiology, including etiology, developmental, pathogenesis and clinical manifestations of commonly encountered acute and chronic illness and injuries
Knowledge of medical conditions and diseases common to different newcomer refugee populations, e.g., malaria, Strongyloides, G6PD, etc. (asset)
Essential Skills
- Working with others
- Critical thinking
- Computer use
Work Setting
- Community health clinic or centre
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