Registered Nurse,Cognitive Support Unit, - Toronto, ON, Canada - Baycrest

Description

Shift Type: Night, alternate weekends ( subject to change)

Hourly Pay Rate: $ $56.00 Bi-Weekly Hours: 30 Hours, 8 hrs/shift Posting Number: 7850

Union: ONA

Date Posted: May 6, 2024 Internal Closing Date: May 13, 2024

Apotex 7 is a Cognitive Support Unit. Residents residing on this floor are living with a wide range of cognitive and physical changes to their abilities – from mild to severe cognitive impairment and from ambulating independently, to being wheel-chair bound.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Provides sound clinical knowledge and skills, acts as clinical expert and resource and provides comprehensive, quality client/family centred health care services from admission, through transfers and discharge
• Plans for, delivers and evaluates nursing interventions, including medications, as well as treatments which fall within the RN's scope of practice
• Provides client-centered care within interdisciplinary care team to meet the personal care, activation, recreation and spiritual needs of clients

Qualifications include but are not limited to:

• Current registration, in good standing, from the College of Nurses of Ontario ('CNO') is required
• Current Basic Cardiac Life Support ('BCLS') certificate, Level C - Automated External Device ('AED') is required
• BScN preferred
• Demonstrated ability to take professional accountability for leading, organizing, providing and delegating care activities for clients and families
• Experience in Long-Term Care with clients in day programs or residents in a Long-Term Care and Community Setting preferred
• Certificate in Dementia Care preferred
• Training in P.I.E.C.E.S., Gentle Persuasive Approach and U-First preferred
• Psychogeriatric experience, i.e. mental health assessment and intervention and working with responsive behaviours including various types of dementia, delirium, mental health issues preferred
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and problem solving skills
• Basic computer skills – PointClickCare MDS/RAI, Microsoft Word and Excel preferred

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