Nurse Practitioner (NP)

About the Opportunity

RhynoCare is seeking an experienced Nurse Practitioner (NP) to work in Long Term Care facilities in St. Catharines, ON . You will be hired and onboarded with RhynoCare as an Independent Contractor.

At RhynoCare, we’re committed to your success. We offer competitive compensation, flexible scheduling options, and ongoing support so you can focus on what you do best - delivering exceptional care.

Position Overview

As a Registered Nurse, you will play a key role in providing high-quality, compassionate care to residents while working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to ensure the well-being and comfort of all patients.

Responsibilities

• Delivers primary health care to residents in LTC in the management of acute and chronic medical conditions, therapeutic management, health promotion and disease / injury prevention to deliver comprehensive health services
• Provide on-call coverage for duties and schedules as required.
• Perform excellent clinical assessments combined with sound clinical judgement / diagnostic and treatment skills – within full scope of practice as defined by the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO).
• Provides clinical leadership to LTC team members centered around resident care needs which can include resident admission / discharge, hospital discharge planning, palliative and end-of-life care, pain management, dementia care and responsive behavior management.
• Conducts health assessments by using various tools and techniques based on resident needs.
• Performs a completes health history, including physical, psychosocial, emotional, cultural, and ethnic dimensions of health.
• Performs physical examination and identifies and interprets normal and abnormal findings and orders diagnostic investigations and interprets results using evidence-based clinical reasoning.
• Collaborates and engages with residents and family members to develop person-centered care plans and synthesizes health information using critical inquiry and clinical reasoning to formulate a diagnosis while identifying health risks and states of health / illness.
• Communicates with residents about the health assessment findings and / or diagnosis, including outcomes and prognosis through the application of knowledge of pathophysiology, psychopathology, epidemiology, infectious diseases, behavioural sciences, and family processes when making diagnoses and providing overall therapeutic management.
• Selects appropriate interventions from a range of non-pharmacological and pharmacological interventions to restore or maintain resident functional, physiological, and mental stability to achieve optimal health.
• Promotes safe resident care by mitigating harm and addressing immediate risks for residents and others affected by adverse events and near misses.
• Liaises with discharge planning services for hospitalized residents to ensure a smooth and safe transition back to the LTC home.
• Collaborates with leaders and community health services in initiatives for the development, implementation, and evaluation of systems to promote continuity of resident care across the continuum and collaborates with the leadership team on educational programs for the care team such as participating in professional advisory and leads and supports quality improvement and research initiatives.
• Demonstrate active participation in the CNO Quality Assurance (QA) Program to ensure maintenance of continuing competence to practice.
• Dedicate 80% of the NP's time towards direct care to residents, and 20% to research and providing education to improve resident care.
• Ability to incorporate knowledge of diversity, cultural safety, and the determinants of health in the assessment, diagnosis and therapeutic management of residents and the evaluation of outcomes and exercise independent judgment and to assess situations and problems efficiently and effectively.
• Leadership skills, working well within an inter-professional team and ability to foster effective working relationships and ability to provide clinical supervision, education, and mentoring for nursing students, medical students, and other learners, including residents / families.
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships and partnerships with a diverse range of stakeholders as well as work effectively within multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong and effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work with flexibility for potentially evenings or weekends participates in providing after hours and on-call coverage.
• Knowledge of RNAO Best Practice guidelines and MLTC Regulations and Act.

Requirements

Membership with Nurse Practitioners' Association of Ontario (NPAO) (preferred).

Compensation

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applications from individuals of all races, ethnicities, religions, genders, sexual orientations, gender identities or expressions, ages, disabilities, and protected veteran status. Accommodation is available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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