Req ID: 199286
Location: Eastern Zone, Guysborough Memorial Hospital
Department: EMG Emergency GMH
Type of Employment: Casual Hourly FT short-assignment (100%) x 1
NSNU Nursing Position
Posting Closing Date: Open Until Filled
Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.
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WHAT TO EXPECT IN THIS ROLE:

• Diverse Experience & Professional Growth: Work in various Rural settings across Cape Breton Island and Guysborough County. Share your experience, enhance your skills and expand your clinical knowledge in a collaborative and supportive environment.
• Flexibility: To support work life balance, Rural locum short term assignments provide an opportunity to work in different communities based on your availability. Schedules will take this preference into consideration as well as operational need.
• Competitive Benefits: Benefits include competitive salary, preferred shifts will be taken into consideration, paid travel / accommodations and more!
• Meaningful Impact: Improve healthcare access in rural areas.
• Incentives: Please note that the incentives are available to successful applicants residing outside the Eastern Zone of the Nova Scotia Health Authority and willing to relocate. Candidates who are currently employed within the Eastern zone must have capacity to accept temporary assignments that do not result in operational disruptions or result in the payment of overtime for regular shift assignments.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Locum Program is focused on specific assignments opportunities for short term periods to address high staffing needs in the Eastern Zone.
Reporting to the Site Lead / Health Services Manager, the Registered Nurse is a health professional who, through the nursing process and therapeutic relationship, assists clients and families to attain/maintain an optimal health status. The Registered Nurse is also responsible for the overall planning and delivery of nursing care. The Rural Locum Registered Nurse practices within the College of Registered Nurses of Nova Scotia, CRNNS Standards of Nursing Practice for Registered Nurses and the Canadian Nurses Association Code of Ethics, providing guidance and leadership to peers and other staff; working in a collaborative relationship with colleagues, unit staff, students and members of various related health disciplines.
Please Note: You may be required to work at various rural facilities within the Eastern Zone which could include Victoria County Memorial Hospital, Inverness Consolidated Memorial Hospital, Buchanan Memorial Hospital, Sacred Heart Hospital, Eastern Memorial Hospital, Guysborough Memorial Hospital, Strait Richmond Hospital and St. Mary’s Hospital.