Registered Nurse

Calian Health is currently seeking experienced Registered Nurses for travel assignments in Remote communities in Nunavut( Isolated and/or Semi-isolated communities), providing community health services to remote Indigenous communities. These are four-week assignments but can extend longer if you prefer longer assignments.

The Community Health Nurse (CHN) assists clients in promotion, protection and restoration of health, to educate about, prevent and reduce the incidence of disease, disability and death. The CHN provides a comprehensive community health service in conjunction with the health care team and works within the context of Primary Health care to improve the capacity of clients to adapt to, respond to or control, life’s challenges, and changes.

Responsibilities

• Provides holistic patient assessments that include health history, medication history, and physical evaluations with patience and Cultural Humility.
• Monitors, assesses and documents observations, symptoms, interventions and changes in client health status.
• Where relevant within scope of practice, orders diagnostic testing and/or collects specimens to make evidence informed decisions for care.
• Documents all information in the client’s personal health file.
• Applies health promotion, chronic disease management, advanced care planning, and/or self-care management principles to conduct assessments, identify issues, provide direct care, and address concerns or variances from the plan of care with empathy and Cultural Humility.
• Administers medications, injections and treatments according to established policies and protocols and within the scope of practice.
• Collaborates with clients and families to plan, implement, coordinate, and evaluate client care plans in consultation with members of interprofessional health team as needed.
• Reviews clinical findings with client/family and the interprofessional team, collaboratively identifies client centred goals and plans for care that promote self-management and improved health-related quality of life.
• Champions cultural safety and humility in all aspects of the job, and advocates for and applies culturally relevant and appropriate approaches when building relationships and providing nursing services.
• Maintains competency that reflects current standards of practice, including anti-racism and cultural humility standards as they are developed, by engaging in professional development activities including review of relevant literature, attending educational workshops and in-services, consulting and networking with other health care professionals.

Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5:00pm with oncall. Minimum of four week rotations

Qualifications

• RN’s licensed with the College and Association of Nurses of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut
• RN’s that have experience being the First Call and working in remote locations
• PALS – pediatric advanced life support
• ENPC – emergency nursing pediatric course
• ACLS – advanced cardiac life support
• TNCC – trauma nursing core course (or equivalent)
• ATLS or ITLS – advanced trauma life support/ International Trauma Life Support
• BLS – basic life support
• CTAS – Canadian Triage and Acuity Score
• NRP
• Nunavut Immunization Certification, Nunavut TB module
• Valid Driver’s License
• WHMIS 2015
• Vulnerable Sector Check (Validity of 6 months)

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