Nurse Practitioner Job Opportunity
Overview:
The Nurse Practitioner (NP) role is a key position in our health care system, offering quality and relevant care across the health continuum and throughout the patient's lifespan. This includes health promotion, disease and injury prevention, curative, supportive, rehabilitative, and palliative care within an interdisciplinary team of health providers.
Job Summary:
The NP provides comprehensive care to patients, families, and communities by applying advanced assessment techniques, critical thinking, and clinical decision-making skills. This involves systematically collecting and analyzing health data, performing holistic health assessments, and communicating diagnoses and patient needs effectively.
Key Responsibilities:
* Integrate a broad knowledge base and critical appraisal to determine and communicate diagnoses and patient needs.
* Apply advanced assessment techniques, critical thinking, and clinical decision-making skills when assessing patients.
* Order diagnostic imaging tests, laboratory, and other tests when clinically indicated and in accordance with Nurse Practitioner Schedules and program guidelines for Ordering.
* Promote health and reduce the risk of complications, illness, and injury for patients.
* Ensure that diagnostic tests are interpreted and results are acted upon in an appropriate and timely manner.
* Monitor the ongoing therapy of patients with chronic stable illnesses.
* Screen for the presence of chronic illnesses and work in collaboration with physicians who identified the presence of chronic illness in patients.
* Monitor the effectiveness of interventions.
* Facilitate the patient's transition within and between health care settings, e.g., admitting, transferring, and discharging patients.
* Ability to work independently and as part of the interdisciplinary team including making appropriate referrals.
* Document clinical data, assessment findings, diagnosis, plan of care, therapeutic intervention (including consent), patients' response, and clinical rationale in a timely and accurate manner in the patient health record.
* Maintain a positive working relationship with the interdisciplinary team.
* Help build protocols and templates in prevention medicine for the program.
* Responsibilities to support the core provincial program will be the primary task.
* Other responsibilities may be assigned to support the program.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
The ideal candidate must possess a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing and successful completion of a postgraduate Nurse Practitioner program in Primary Health Care. Additionally, they should be registered as a Nurse Practitioner with the Nurses Association of New Brunswick and have at least 2 years' experience in a primary health care setting.
Benefits:
This role offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment, providing comprehensive care to patients, families, and communities. The successful candidate will also enjoy opportunities for professional growth and development in a field dedicated to improving health outcomes.
Others:
We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. We welcome applications from qualified individuals who share our values and passion for delivering exceptional patient care.