Classification: Temporary Full Time (until approx. Sept 2024)
Summary of Duties:
- Practices within the full scope of the Nurse Practitioner role conducting assessments, developing diagnoses and therapeutic plans of care.
- Promotes wellness and health promotion in order to provide exemplary quality care through the application of advanced clinical and theoretical knowledge and skills.
Qualifications and Skills:
- RN(EC) licence from College of Nurses of Ontario, NP-Neonatal or Paediatric designation required
- Significant recent related Neonatal ICU nursing experience required
- Masters degree in Nursing and Nurse Practitioner Diploma required
- Demonstrated skills and knowledge from the profession of nursing, and healthcare management
- Demonstrated experience through roles of advanced practitioner, educator, researcher and leader
- Experience precepting undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate nursing students, as well as clinical fellows in their clinical experience, and evaluating their performance
- Demonstrates sound clinical reasoning and current evidence in decision making, planning and implementing care.
- Coordinates with nurses to stimulate interest and provide innovative learning opportunities to integrate research findings, theory, and technique for advanced patient care.
- Collaborates with Clinical Educator, Patient Care Manager, and staff, prepares and guides nurses in the teaching-learning process in order to advance nursing strategic goals and Corporate objectives.
- Contributes to the performance review process and participates in the hiring of administrators, nursing staff and other health care professionals.
- Serves as a resource and consultant to administration in decision-making, strategic planning and problem-solving processes.