- Provide nursing services, within defined scope of practice, to patients based on patient assessment and care planning procedures
- Perform nursing interventions such as taking vital signs, applying aseptic techniques including sterile dressing, ensuring infection control, monitoring nutritional intake and conducting specimen collection
- Administer medication and observe and document therapeutic effects
- Provide pre-operative and post-operative personal and comfort care
- Monitor established respiratory therapy and intravenous therapy
- Monitor patients' progress, evaluate and document effectiveness of nursing interventions and collaborate with appropriate members of health care team
- Provide safety and health education to individuals and their families.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Transportation/Travel Information
- Valid driver's licence
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Certificate
- Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS)
- Basic cardiac life support (BCLS)
- First Aid Certificate
- Licensure by the appropriate province or territory of work
- Eligible for licensure as a practical nurse by the province/territory of work
Additional Skills
- Monitor patients' progress and report any changes
Work Setting
- Nursing or convalescent home
- Home for the aged
Area Of Specialization
- Rehabilitation unit
- Palliative care
- Geriatrics
Registered Nursing Assistant Specific Skills
- Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
- Distribute medication to patients
- Change patients' dressings
- Bathe and dress patients
- Assist registered nurses with various medical procedures
- Provide pre-operative and post-operative personal and comfort care
- Monitor established respiratory therapy and intravenous therapy
- Provide safety and health education to individuals and their families
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Sound discrimination
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
Security and Safety
- Basic security clearance
- Criminal record check (abstract)
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