Description:
The Registered Nurse (RN) is a regulated health care professional who is accountable and responsible for providing quality patient focused nursing care to patients in the Labour and Delivery and Postpartum Units. As part of the inter-professional health care team, the RN will practice according to the nursing practice expectations set by Osler, the regulatory practice standards of the College of Nurses and the legislative requirements set by the Regulated Health Professions Act.
Accountabilities:
- Safe nursing practice in all aspects of the nursing process: assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care
- Compliance with policies and procedures associated with observations
- Professional, patient-centred care to ensure patient safety and physiological and psychological well-being, associated with creating a therapeutic relationship and environment
- Providing care in a compassionate and caring manner within a diverse cultural environment
- Practicing according to the infection control and prevention measures
- Responding to emergency situations by recognizing changes in patient's health status and consulting appropriately when necessary using transfer of accountability principles
- Providing health teaching to patients and families including thorough discharge instructions to ensure the continuity of care in the community
Qualifications
- Pacemaker clinic experience within the last three years preferred
- Cardiology experience within the last fiveyears, with a minimum of twoyears acute medicine experience required
- Minimum of threeyears in acute resus, critical care unit and/or intensive care unit is preferred
- Must pass an arrhythmia quiz obtaining an 80% to move on to the interview phase
- Strong background in cardiovascular physiology, electrocardiography and rhythm interpretation required
- NASPE preferred
- Coronary care I and II required
- Experience with sterile operating roomand aseptic techniques or septic ORNAC standards is preferred
- Ability to meet the physical demands of the position – lead apron required