Registered Practical Nurse - Visiting Nursing Community

POSITION SUMMARY:

St. Joseph’s Home Care is dedicated to providing quality and compassionate care to individuals in their homes and/or alternative settings on a visiting or shift care basis. Registered Practical Nurses enhance the life of their clients by providing a range of care to clients with predictable outcomes, within the framework of SJHC’s policies and procedures and the standards of practice prescribed by the College of Nurses of Ontario. Through their work, Registered Practical Nurses contribute to the healing and independence of their clients and promote the continual improvement of the overall health of the community.

Clinical

• providing quality nursing care, within the scope of practice and in accordance with the professional regulating body
• maintaining knowledge and compliance to the Professional Standards
• following nursing processes and practices in an effective and efficient manner
• ensuring the maintenance of high-quality nursing skills, applying current knowledge to nursing care
• complying with all SJHC nursing practices, processes and work instructions
• reviewing and following the plan of nursing care, including discharge plans
• engaging in consultation / liaison with clients, their families/caregivers, physical, multi-discipline team member, and other external stakeholders as required (e. g. HCCSS, ICC Care Coordinators)
• evaluating and monitoring care plans on an on-going basis
• assisting other clinical programs if requested or required
• participating in regular and on-going professional development / learning opportunities, with the goal of obtaining more advanced or specialized nursing skills, as may be necessary for organizational advancement
• completes self-appraisals in keeping with the College of Nurses of Ontario Standards of Practice and SJHC internal practices
• acts as an advocate for patients, families and their caregivers through reviewing and interpreting information, supporting decision making and facilitating communications
• completing comprehensive nursing assessments
• conducting virtual care visits as necessary to program and/or scope of practice

Operational

• completing program, clinical or organizational documentation in a timely and accurate manner
• participating in organizational learning opportunities as appropriate (e. g, Surge Learning)
• engaging on organizational working groups as appropriate (e. g, JH&SC, Quality Committee)
• effectively utilizing organizational tools, software, devices in the application of daily work, willingness and ability to learn new technical skills as operational or patient needs change
• willingness and ability to provide care in a variety of geographical locations (e. g. Central Hamilton), patient care environments (e. g. apartment building), or institutional care settings (e. g. Long Term Care)
• willingness and ability to act as coach/mentor/Preceptor to new nurses through knowledge sharing and peer to peer support

CORE COMPENTENCIES

• Support compassionate care, faith and diversity
• Deliver quality care, pursue and share knowledge, respect diversity, remain faithful
• Commit to working everyday with dignity, respect, service, justice, responsibility and enquiry
• Ability to work collaboratively with others; sharing expertise and drawing on the expertise of others
• Actively promotes a healthy, supportive and inclusive work environment
• Proactively contributes to initiatives, supporting and encouraging positive change
• Ability to engage in effective problem solving, possess logic and analytical thinking
• Skilled at thinking about creative solutions to complex problems
• Solid team-based approach to every day work activities
• Superior communication skills both verbal and written, with an excellent customer service mind set
• Positive and professional, with a “can do” attitude
• Willingness to regularly go the extra mile and actively support co-workers/direct reports
• Ability to demonstrate leadership and mentoring skills, to motivate and help others grow
• Strong knowledge of quality outcomes and streaming processes in order to find efficiencies
• Strong abilities in program planning, implementation, evaluation
• Superior organizational and planning skills
• Proven ability to be detailed oriented
• Maintaining on-going compliance to corporate policies and procedures, health and safety regulations, and relevant external standards
• Participating fully in both internal and external training requirements
• Participating fully in corporate quality initiatives
• Maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of all personal health records (including both client and personal), and following all the privacy and confidentiality requirements of any and all electronic medical record systems used (including but not limited to Procura and HPG)

QUALIFICATIONS

• One of either of the following - requiredPractical Nursing Diploma from an accredited college program + IV medication administration as part of the basic educational curriculum Practical Nursing Diploma from an accredited college program + IV medication administration certificate Practical Nursing Certificate from an accredited college program + a medication administration certificate + an IV medication administration certificate
• Current and unrestricted RPN registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario - required
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) - required
• Previous experience with specific nursing care (palliative, diabetic, COPD, patrilineal dialysis, etc.,) - preferred