Overview
Languages
English
Education
- Bachelor's degree
Experience
Experience an asset
Work setting
- Nursing home/home for the aged
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Assess patients to identify appropriate nursing interventions
- Collaborate with members of an interdisciplinary health team to plan, implement, co-ordinate and evaluate patient care in consultation with patients and their families
- Dispense and administer medications and treatments as prescribed by a physician
- Address and document symptoms and changes in patients’ conditions
- Provide supportive counselling and life skills programming
- Deliver immunization programs
- Supervise licensed practical nurses and other nursing staff
- Provide nursing care
- Operate or monitor medical apparatus or equipment
Supervision
- Staff in various areas of responsibility
- 11-15 people
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- CPR Certificate
- First Aid Certificate
- Eligible for licensure as a Registered Nurse by the province/territory of work
Experience and specialization
Area of specialization
- Geriatrics
Additional information
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
- Tuberculosis test
- Vulnerable sector check
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Work under pressure
- Attention to detail
- Standing for extended periods
- Sitting
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Initiative
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
Benefits
Health benefits
- Dental plan
- Health care plan
- Vision care benefits
Financial benefits
- As per collective agreement
- Life insurance
- Night shift premium
- Pension plan
Other benefits
- Parking available
- Wellness program