Overview
Languages
English
Education
- Bachelor's degree
Experience
Experience an asset
Work setting
- Correctional facility
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Infection control
- Advise patients on health care
- Collaborate with members of an interdisciplinary health team and plan, implement, co-ordinate and evaluate patient care
- Examine patients and take their medical histories and consult with physicians and other medical practitioners to evaluate patients' physical and mental health
- Order laboratory tests, X-rays and other diagnostic procedures
- Conduct patient interviews, physical assessments and take medical histories
- Formulate and implement treatment plans and monitor patients' progress
- Inoculate and vaccinate patients to prevent and treat diseases
- Perform or order diagnostic tests and interpret results
- Provide health maintenance education
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Licensure as a Nurse Practitioner by the province/territory of work
Additional information
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Attention to detail
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Fast-paced environment
- Physically demanding
- Sitting
- Standing for extended periods
- Work under pressure
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
Benefits
Financial benefits
- As per collective agreement