University Health Network
Nurse Practitioner - Emergency Department
This job is now closed
Job Description
- Req#: 928496
- Utilizing and demonstrating advanced knowledge and decision making skills to conduct comprehensive assessments.
- Diagnose and manage the care of patients.
- Planning and implementing strategies to promote health
- Prevent illness with individuals, families and groups.
- Delivering, coordinating and participating in educational and professional development activities/programs.
Qualifications
- Completion of Masters Degree Program in Nursing ( or one semester from completion).
- Registered Nurse (EC) certification complete or pending.
- Nurse Practitioner (NP) Adult or Primary Care certificate complete or pending.
- Current Certificate of Competence with College of Nurses of Ontario.
- Membership in the Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) organizations relevant to the role.
- Canadian Nurses Association certification in Emergency Nursing preferred.
- Five (5) years experience in Emergency Services preferred.
- Experience in nursing research methodology.
- Ability to perform duties in a professional and courteous manner and produce high quality work while meeting deadlines in accordance to UHN standards.
- Exercise initiative and good judgement with ability to multi-task.
- Compliance with confidentiality requirements.
- Effective organizational, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Knowledge of applicable legislative, UHN and/or departmental policies.
- Client service oriented, with the ability to effectively work with diversity and appreciate that people with different opinions, backgrounds and characteristics bring richness to the challenge or situation at hand.
- Evidence of strong assessment skills and the ability to predict changes in patient status.
- Demonstrated knowledge and ability to utilize process of planning, implementing and evaluating patient care.
- Demonstrated leadership/in charge skills and evidence of good organizational and decision-making skills.
- Evidence of commitment to team building and working within a patient focused care model.
- Program planning and evaluation methodology skills.
- Commitment to collaborative practice.
- Ability to utilize information technology.
- Experience in a triage role in an emergency department setting.
- Vaccines (COVID-19 and others) are a requirement of the job unless you have an exemption on a medical ground pursuant to the Ontario Human Rights Code.
Why join UHN?
In addition to working alongside some of the most talented and inspiring healthcare professionals in the world, UHN offers a wide range of benefits, programs and perks. It is the comprehensiveness of these offerings that makes it a differentiating factor, allowing you to find value where it matters most to you, now and throughout your career at UHN.
About the company
The University Health Network (UHN), consisting of Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital and Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, is a recognized leader in patient care, research and education. - Registered Nurse (EC) certification complete or pending.
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- Diagnose and manage the care of patients.
NURSE PRACTITIONER
Job Posting #: 928496
Union: NON-UNION
Site: Toronto Western Hospital/Toronto General Hospital
Department: Emergency Department
Reports to: Clinic Manager
Hours: 37.5 hrs./week
Wage range: To commensurate with experience and consistent with UHN compensation policy
Status: Permanent Full-Time
Shifts: 5 shifts/week
Posted Date: 02/15/2024
Closing Date: Until Filled
The University Health Network, where “above all else the needs of patients come first”, encompasses Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and the Michener Institute of Education. The breadth of research, the complexity of the cases treated, and the magnitude of its educational enterprise has made UHN a national and international resource for patient care, research and education. With a long tradition of ground breaking firsts and a purpose of “Transforming lives and communities through excellence in care, discovery and learning”, the University Health Network (UHN), Canada’s largest research teaching hospital, brings together over 16,000 employees, more than 1,200 physicians, 8,000+ students, and many volunteers. UHN is a caring, creative place where amazing people are amazing the world.
Position Summary
"We are a caring, creative and accountable academic Hospital, transforming Healthcare for Our Patients, Our Community and the World"
University Health Network (UHN) represents the coming together of shared values and diverse expertise in patient care, research and teaching. Each of our facilities (Toronto General Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto Western Hospital and Toronto Rehabilitation Institute) makes a unique contribution to the whole. Together, we create something far greater than the sum of our parts.
Toronto General Hospital (TGH) is leading the way in cardiac care, organ transplants and the treatment of complex patient needs. Home to three of UHN's major program groupings (Heart and Circulation, Transplantation and Advanced Medicine and Surgery), our highly skilled teams are committed to UHN's vision of achieving global impact.
Toronto Western Hospital has been serving the health care needs of its culturally diverse local community for more than 100 years. Today, the hospital provides highly specialized tertiary care to people from surrounding areas and across Canada.
The EMEREGENCY DEPARTMENT NURSE PRACTITIONER demonstrates autonomy while assuming and having sole accountability and the authority to independently communicate a diagnosis, prescribe drugs and order a range of diagnostic tests, the principal responsibilities include: utilizing and demonstrating advanced knowledge and decision making skills to conduct comprehensive assess, diagnose and manage the care of patients; planning and implementing strategies to promote health and prevent illness with individuals, families and groups; delivering, coordinating and participating in educational and professional development activities/programs.
The EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT NURSE PRACTITIONER will also provide coverage (as required) for UHN’s Virtual Emergency Department, providing care to patients through video visits for urgent, non-life threatening issues via same day online bookings.
Duties
- Utilizing and demonstrating advanced knowledge and decision making skills to conduct comprehensive assessments.