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Job Summary
As a key member of the care team, you will complete health assesments as well as teaching and coaching. You will monitor and deliver nursing care in accordance with nursing plans and professional practice standards. Your well developed judgment will enable you to perform routine nursing duties including infusions when required, and your strong interpersonal skills will ensure that the emotional and physical comforts of clients are met. You will manage stressful situations with poise and professionalism. You are committed to quality, and implement physicians orders with accuracy.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Complete home health assessments and health teaching and coaching in order to provide exceptional client care by utilizing the skills of observation, assessment, nursing diagnosis, counseling and health teaching.
Experience
- At least one year of recent experience preferred with a focus in a community setting, however new nursing graduates are encouraged to apply and will be evaluated on an individual basis.
- Strong assessment and skills in wound care including use of sterile dressings and complex dressings
- Strong IV skills for home infusions
- Experience with PICC lines, dressings. Line changes and infusion
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
Transportation/Travel Information
- Own vehicle
- Valid driver's licence
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Licensure as a Registered Nurse by the province/territory of work
- CPR certification
Additional Skills
- Infection control
- General counselling
Specific Skills
- Deliver health education programs
- Assess patients to identify appropriate nursing interventions
- Collaborate to plan, implement, co-ordinate and evaluate patient care
- Monitor, assess, address, document and report symptoms and changes in patients' conditions
- Develop and implement health education programs
- Provide health education
- Provide nursing care
- Provide consultative services regarding issues relevant to nursing profession and nursing practice
- Plan, develop, implement, monitor and evaluate health education services
- Manage home care cases
- Participate in community needs assessment and program development
- Deliver immunization programs
Work Setting
- Home care and visiting care agency
- Community health clinic or centre
Area Of Specialization
- Public and community health
- Occupational and industrial health
- Geriatrics
- General duty
- Community
- Home care
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