Nurse Practitioner, Homewood Specialized Services
at Homewood Health Centre
Guelph, ON, Canada -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 22 Jul, 2024 | Not Specified | 29 Apr, 2024 | 3 year(s) or above | Good communication skills | No | No |
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Description:
Make a difference in a growing, innovative mental health organization and centre of excellence in people-centered care. Work with supportive colleagues who are passionate about improving lives and champions for quality and continuous learning.
As a Nurse Practitioner, you will be an integral part of a collaborative, inter-disciplinary team focused on delivering advanced practice nursing to patients and families with complex situations within Homewood Health Centre. If you are looking for a company that is constantly moving forward in pursuit of successful outcomes, get ready to love it here!
WHY WORK FOR US
Homewood Health is Canada’s largest and leading service provider for medically focused, evidence-based treatment of mental health and addiction disorders. Our organizational culture values service excellence, integrity, collaboration and innovation. Our people make a difference!
As an equal opportunity employer, Homewood Health is committed to employment accessibility, diversity, equity and inclusion. For this reason, we encourage applications from members of equity-seeking groups including women, racialized and indigenous communities, persons with disabilities, and persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities/expressions.
Join us at Homewood Health™ and be part of a diverse team helping Canadians live healthier, more productive and fulfilling lives.
Responsibilities:
- Utilize a comprehensive theoretical knowledge base and an advanced level of clinical competence in caring for patients, which will include health assessments and diagnosis of medical and cognitive problems, developing and implementing a plan of care, providing health counselling and emotional support in the areas of health promotion and the prevention of illness, injury and complication
- Work in collaboration with the consulting physicians to facilitate early assessment and intervention for patients requiring consults
- Support the management of patients in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team including comprehensive nursing/medical history, physical and psychosocial assessment of the patients’ status
- Utilize established care paths and order sets to guide care practices for the patient population from admission through to discharge
- Support the health team through the completion of comprehensive initial patient assessments and established individualized treatment and care plans for the complex patients in collaboration with physicians and psychiatrists
- Assist in/coordinates care with patients, families and communities
- Create and maintains a climate for and a commitment to healing within a therapeutic relationship.
- Documents and communicates the patient’s beliefs, values, and wishes, honoring them as much as possible given respect for others and legal, ethical and professional boundaries
- Demonstrate sensitivity to culture, situation and family dynamics
- Maximize the patient’s participation and control in their own treatment, providing information and support for decision making
- Facilitate change directed by the patient, mapped out by mutually developed goals
- Assess problems rapidly, noting and documenting significant changes. The Nurse Practitioner in collaboration with the nurse assesses the potential for risk accurately and demonstrates leadership and skill in extreme or life threatening emergencies
- Document according to professional standards, the principles of clear communication, and Homewood policy and procedure
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:3.0Max:8.0 year(s)
Hospital/Health Care
Pharma / Biotech / Healthcare / Medical / R&D
Health Care
Trade Certificate
Mental health nursing certificate preferred
Proficient
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Guelph, ON, Canada