nurse practitioner
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May 15, 2024
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Support House
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At Support House, we open doors, minds, and possibilities. We build opportunities, we inspire change, and we transform health care. We believe everyone deserves support.
Support House is directed by our core values. They guide our agency?s decisions and actions, unite our staff, define our brand, and inspire our culture. We connect by building meaningful relationships. We put people first by supporting them to direct their own path. We focus on holistic wellness. We foster engagement through designing housing, supports and the system together.
Support House offers supportive housing options, community outreach, peer support and building system capacity.
*Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion *
Support House is committed to leveraging diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives of our employees in order to provide services to an equally diverse community and encourages applications from all qualified candidates.
*The main purpose of this position*
The Nurse Practitioner (NP) will provide in-person and virtual access to primary care services to vulnerable populations in Halton, including those with complex health care needs, mental health and addictions concerns and unhoused. The position will work as a team member of the Interprofessional Primary Care Outreach Team. The NP is responsible for ensuring that nursing care provided to clients meets all legislative requirements and practice standards of the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO).
*The main purpose of the Interprofessional Care Team (IPCT)*
The IPCT is responsible for providing one-to-one community-based primary care and clinical support across the Halton region supporting people who are unhoused and who experience mental health and substance use concerns. The team will work primarily in the community meeting people where they are at, including shelters, supportive housing and street level outreach. This team will include Nurse Practitioners, Registered Nurses, Social Workers, Peer Support Workers and an Occupational Therapist.
*Responsibilities*
_Client Focused Work_
* Delivers primary care services within the Nurse Practitioner (NP) scope of practice as outlined by the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) and Bill 179, including comprehensive health assessments, physical examination, therapeutic management, consultation, collaboration, and referrals for those who use substances.
* Assesses, investigates, diagnoses, and treats patients, utilizing critical thinking and evidence-based medicine and nursing as a guide to practice.
* Provides and evaluates holistic patient care based on advance nursing and medical management knowledge and skills.
* Discusses diagnoses with the client, including discussing relevant clinical information, treatment and the expected outcomes and prognoses.
* Work with clients and their circle of care to develop a plan of care (Unified Care Plan) utilizing assessment findings, diagnosis, and evidence-informed practice.
* Establishes a plan to monitor the client?s response to medication therapy, including withdrawal management and continues to adjust a medication/treatment and support based on assessment of the client?s response.
* Consults with physicians for clients who have unstable/complex health conditions.
* Performs physical exams, orders tests, diagnoses and treats substance use disorders e.g., prescribing withdrawal medications specific to their substance(s) of choice, safe supply and or anti-craving medications.
* Writes prescriptions and orders laboratory tests within the NP scope of practice
* Provides supportive counselling/short-term crisis management
* Conducts essential home visits to clients living within the Halton Region
* Ensures that quality of client care consistently meets accepted College of Nurses standards, the Regulated Health Professions Act, and SH policies
* Utilizes a health promotion approach to addressing social determinants of health
* Maintains complete and accurate records sufficient for timely communic
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LocationOakville, ON
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Salary$120,000YEAR annually
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Terms of employment
Permanent employmentFull time
- Start date
Starts as soon as possible
- vacancies
1 vacancy
- Source
indeed.com
#9280327187
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