Registered Practical Nurse (Rpn) (Rpt 0.5)

Description

Position at VON Canada (Ontario)

Requisition Details

Employment Status: Permanent, Part-Time (0.5 FTE)

Program: Visiting Nursing

Number of Hours Bi-Weekly: 37.5

Work Schedule: Days, Evenings, Weekends

Union/Bargaining Unit: CUPE

On Call: Yes

Our Visiting nurses provide client care in the client’s own home. They provide physical assessments, symptom control support, palliative care, rehabilitation therapy, wound care, education, counseling to individuals and families, and much more.

Job Summary

The Registered/Licensed Practical Nurse is responsible for the provision and management of client and family centered, evidence-based, efficient nursing care to individuals and families in their homes and community. The Registered/Licensed Practical Nurse ensures care is provided within the framework of quality & risk management and the standards and scope of practice set by VON and the relevant provincial regulatory body. The Registered/Licensed Practical Nurse is responsible for safe and appropriate teaching, assignment and delegation of tasks to different categories of workers.

Key Responsibilities

• Provides rationale for referrals, increase or decrease in visits and for discharge based on relevant, sound data and established guidelines.
• Documents problems identified using a specified framework and focuses care on appropriate problem areas utilizing established procedures.
• Provides nursing care to predictable clients who have less complex care needs via an established plan of care. When providing care to clients with more complex needs and unpredictable health outcomes, must consult with an RN (or other appropriate health care provider).
• Assigns care to other workers and involves the client and family in client care as appropriate.
• Negotiates with client and the family during delivery of care while respecting client choices.
• Utilizes adult learning principals and established teaching materials to provide health teaching to clients and families.
• Manages and facilitates care via an established nursing care plan and evaluate client responses to interventions.
• Obtains relevant information for care from the client, family and appropriate members of the healthcare team.
• Functions in accordance with the VON policies, procedures and strategic direction of VON Canada.
• Documents all relevant information clearly, concisely, accurately and appropriately according to VON standards.
• Practices in accordance with the quality and risk management framework of VON Canada and Occupational Health and Safety legislation.
• Identifies and utilizes tools and resources for relevant work and manages these resources.
• Collaborates with management staff and colleagues in the evaluation of own practice and maintains competence through continuing education and self-reflection.
• Promotes involvement of the client family in determining health and service needs.
• Shares clinical knowledge to enable clients, family and the community to make informed choices in determining health and service needs.
• Documents and provides rational for modifications to the care plan, such as changes to the visit schedule.
• Incorporates current research findings into clinical practices.
• Refers clients to appropriate category of nursing care provider and to other disciplines utilizing established guidelines.
• Selects and implements strategies or interventions from established care plans in consultation with the client and/or caregiver and health care team.
• Describes and documents assessment findings utilizing established procedures. This includes the documentation of a client’s and family’s reaction to care.
• Plans, implements, evaluates and adjusts care in accordance with customer focused expectations by seeking input from clients to assure that service meets needs.
• Participates in the development of heath policies and nursing practice standards through involvement in VON, professional organizations and community organizations.
• Participates in decision making and follows up to promote continuous quality improvement.
• Contributes to clients’ care plans in collaboration with the health care team.
• Promotes client-directed care, self-care and independence through teaching.
• Provides complete, relevant assessment of the client and family and their environment utilizing established procedures.
• Provides cost-effective, organized, outcome directed care on an ongoing basis.

External And Internal Relationships

• Participates actively with other healthcare professional organizations and the community to promote nursing best practices.
• Engages regularly with clients, their families and caregivers. Provides education and support to engage clients and families in independence.
• Works collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team and acts as a clinical resource and mentor for other care providers, staff and students.

Education, Designations And Experience

• For positions requiring expertise in a specific field of clinical practice additional degrees or certificates may be required.
• Clinical practice experience is an asset.
• Experience in community health is an asset.
• Must have a License as a Registered or Licensed Practical Nurse in the province of practice.

Skill Requirements

• The capacity to adhere to strict confidentially.
• Able to articulate effectively knowledge of components of quality and risk management principles as they relate to clinical practices.
• Effective time management skills that allow for the independent planning and organizing of daily work activity.
• Able to initiate and support health teaching, facilitation and development.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with particular proficiency in interviewing relevant stakeholders.
• Ability to problem solve and to adapt to nursing interventions as appropriate.
• Strong interpersonal relationship building skills with the ability work collaboratively in an interdisciplinary team.
• Ability to observe and make effective assessments of clinical issues.

Other

• The use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) will be required
• A current and original copy of a satisfactory Criminal Records Check.
• A Vulnerable Sector Search and/or a Child Abuse Registry Check may be required.
• Available to work flexible hours

Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities: Attention to detail; Lift and carry using appropriate lifting techniques; Bend, push, pull, grip, reach, kneel, crouch using good body mechanics; Walk, sit, stand, climb stairs; Hand movements

VON Canada is committed to meeting the needs of persons with disabilities and to providing accessibility accommodations for candidates who require them. If you are in need of accessibility support, please visit our website at http://www.von.ca/en/accessibility for further details.

In accordance with the Employer’s policy, Mandatory Vaccination: COVID-19, it is required that all VON Canada Nova Scotia Branch, VON Canada Ontario Branch and VON Canada (National) employees, contractors, volunteers and students be fully vaccinated (subject only to legitimate established exemptions of a medical nature or where there is a valid human rights exception).
To facilitate this policy, all VON Canada employees, students, contractors and volunteers will be required to provide written attestation confirming that they are fully vaccinated and reasonable proof of vaccination status, inclusive of any government-issued documentation.