Registered Practical Nurse - Reactivation Care Centre Humber Church Site

Registered Practical Nurse - Reactivation Care Centre Humber Church Site
St. Joseph's Health Centre, Unity Health Toronto has a 30-bed Transitional Care and Reactivation Care Unit located at Humber Church site (200 Church St.; near Jane Street south of the 401). The Reactivation Care Unit provides care for adult and geriatric patients who require therapy, reactivation and transition planning in order to transfer to the community and/or other supportive environments. This unit focuses on reactivation and transition planning for patients who are waiting transfer to the community and/or other supportive environments.

Working as a part of a dedicated, interprofessional team, you will deliver patient‑centred care designed with best practice principles. This team works closely with patients, families, and caregivers to provide reactivation therapy with a goal of enhancing and optimizing patient’s functions and engagement in daily routines.

As an employee of Unity Health Toronto, Providence Healthcare, St. Joseph's Health Centre Toronto, and St. Michael's Hospital, you will be providing (RN, RPN, HCA) services to this unit.

The Registered Practical Nurse (RPN) will provide high quality nursing care for a variety of medicine patients within an Interprofessional Collaborative Practice philosophy. Being part of this team means being part of an exciting new initiative to help us support patients along their continuum of care and to shape how care is delivered.

The RPN works within a changing environment and in inter‑professional teams to advocate for and promote wellness while ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and ethical nursing care.

Responsibilities
The primary role of the RPN is to provide holistic, evidence‑based, culturally appropriate, patient‑centred quality care in accordance with the College of Nurses of Ontario standards and Unity Health Toronto’s mission, vision, values and policies.

Being accountable for one’s decisions and professional practice;

Establishing a therapeutic relationship with the patient;

Providing autonomous nursing care with patients considered stable and with predictable outcomes;

Collaborating with other members of the patient’s care team;

Coordinating and communicating patient care activities to optimize the patient’s experience and care outcomes; and

Collaborating and consulting with Registered Nurses and other members of the care team in the care of patients with increasing instability and unpredictability and, when necessary, safely transferring care to the Registered Nurse.

The RPN has 4 key areas of responsibility:

Acquires information to assess patient care and learning needs;

Engages patients and families to assess the level of involvement of the patient/family in their care and integrates into care planning; develops a plan of care and integrates nursing activities with other inter‑professional activities;

Engages in critical inquiry and reflection to select evidence‑based interventions;

Organizes nursing care based on patient care needs and priorities;

Continuously gathers and analyzes clinical and other relevant data to evaluate the effectiveness of the plan of care and adjusts the plan as needed;

Anticipates and recognizes rapidly changing situations; and a patient’s transition from stable to unstable, establishes priorities; and takes immediate appropriate action to collaborate and consult with the Registered Nurse;

Provides health education using effective teaching strategies that takes into account the patient/family’s learning needs, readiness, and motivation to learn;

Collaborates with appropriate team members on patient care needs;

Processes orders and seeks verification of orders from prescribers;

Documents observations, assessments and care provision in a timely manner to facilitate a current and accurate record of the patient’s status and enable effective inter‑professional communication;

Contributes to discharge and transition planning and other planning activities to facilitate care continuity and coordination; advocates for care needs to be met in the most appropriate setting; and

Organizes patient care activities while working collaboratively with patients,…