Nurse Practitioner - Post Acute Care

Position Details Job Number:

JR02410

Department:

Post Acute Care and Community Partnerships Job Type:Temporary (Fixed Term), Full time

Work Environment:

In-Person Contract Duration: (If applicable)5 months

Number of Positions:1

Hourly Rate (Min / Max):$65.38 - $78.63

Schedule Work Days:

Monday to Friday Time of Day:

Days

Shift: Hours - 7.5

Shift Start: (If applicable)
Reason for Posting:

Posting is for a new role Application Dates Opening Date:

Closing Date:

Job Description

Position Summary:

The Nurse Practitioner functions as a member of an interprofessional team and within a shared care clinician model in the provision of specialty care services for the assigned patient population using advanced nursing knowledge, skill, clinical reasoning, problem solving and critical thinking. The Nurse Practitioner works in the following domains within the Post Acute Care Portfolio:
Clinical Practice, Consultation, Education, Research and Leadership/Administration. The Nurse Practitioner is authorized to perform extended health services which include comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, intervention, referral, management, and evaluation of patient care. All duties and responsibilities of the Nurse Practitioners follow the guidelines developed by the Registered Nurses of Ontario, the College of Nurses of Ontario, and St. Joseph's Healthcare.

Qualifications:

• Graduate of a Nurse Practitioner Program
• Masters Degree in Nursing
• Nurse Practitioner Registration in the Registered Nurse - Extended Class (NP
- Primary Care, NP Acute Care) with the College of Nurses of Ontario
• Faculty appointment or eligibility to pursue faculty appointment at McMaster University School of Nursing
• BCLS certified
• Member of RNAO preferred
• Recent related clinical experience of 3 years
• Member in the following associations are an asset:
Canadian Association of Rehabilitation Nurses, Nurse Practitioner Association of Ontario, and Gerontological Nursing Association of Ontario
• Recent related clinical experience of 3 years
• Expert level practice skill; advanced practice experience preferred
• Recent research or evaluation experience
• Recent leadership experience
• Demonstrated commitment to the values of Service, Responsible Stewardship, Community Responsiveness and Respect
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Demonstrated leadership, team building and interprofessional team skills
• Computer literate for clinical applications and Microsoft Office
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal, problem solving and decision making skills
• Research, teaching and consulting skills
• Knowledge of statistics and ability to analyse fiscal and patient care data
• Ability to learn and apply hospital policy and procedures, relative legislation, collective agreements, Canadian Hospital Accreditation Standards, Professional Disciplines Standards for Ontario.
• Solid understanding of rehabilitative and chronic/complex disease management models and processes
• Recent adult education/program development experience

Responsibilities:
• Completes comprehensive and advanced health history and physical assessement
• Identifies and orders diagnostic tests and procedures according to approved medical directives within the scope of practice
• Collects, interprets and analyzes data from multiple sources and uses this data to formulate medical diagnoses within the scope of practice
• Develops, implements and documents the medical plan of care for the patient
• Works collaboratively with patients, internal medicine, physical medicine and family practice physicians and other members of the interprofessional team to develop the rehabilitative plan of care Facilitates a shared care model which includes the applicable services for the assigned patient populations
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