Nurse Practitioner - Calgary - Mosaic Primary Care Network

Description

Employee Status: Regular Full-Time (1.0 FTE)

Reporting To: Manager, Medical Clinic & Patient Access

Job Classification: Non-Exempt

Program/Department: Patient Access & Attachment

Date Available: Negotiable

Hours of Work: 7.75 hours per shift, 38.75 hours per week

Shift Pattern: Days, evenings and/or weekends

Rate of Pay: $ $76.38 per hour

Overview

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About Us

Mosaic Primary Care Network (PCN) provides a wide range of primary health care services in the northeast and southeast Calgary communities in partnership with a group of family doctors. Our interdisciplinary health care teams work together to provide services that best support patient needs. We are seeking a Nurse Practitioner who is initiative-driven, resourceful, collaborative, and eager to make a difference in healthcare.

Position Summary

Reporting to the Manager, Medical Clinic & Patient Access, the Nurse Practitioner is responsible for providing health services to manage the needs of individuals, families, groups, and communities. The NP uses principles of primary health care to guide clinical practice and contributes to the models of health care established by Mosaic PCN.

The NP provides comprehensive assessments, orders and interprets diagnostic and screening tests, diagnoses illness and disease, and therapeutically manages health concerns, including prescribing medications and therapies. The NP works autonomously and collaborates with the health care team to deliver comprehensive services.

This position works in Low-Risk Maternity Group (LMG), Mosaic Medical Clinic (MMC), ACCESS clinic and the Mosaic Pain Management Clinic (PMC). When working at the PMC, NPs collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to provide detailed assessment and comprehensive health services for patients with chronic pain.

Key Responsibilities

Health Assessment and Diagnosis

• Performs an advanced comprehensive and focused health assessment.
• Synthesizes and analyzes health assessment information using critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills.
• Combines patient assessment findings with scientific and clinical knowledge to diagnose within the NP scope of practice.
• Orders appropriate screening and diagnostic investigations and interprets results based on clinical reasoning and evidence.
• Consults with and refers to physicians or other health care team members when patient needs are beyond the NP scope or competence.

Health-Care Management and Therapeutic Intervention

• Collaborates with patients, families, and the health care team to share decision making and set priorities for management of health concerns.
• Applies pharmacology knowledge in selecting, prescribing, monitoring, and dispensing drugs within the NP scope of practice.
• Manages treatment for patients diagnosed by the physician or NP within their scope of practice.
• Initiates interventions to stabilize clients in urgent or emergency situations.
• Educates patients on pain science and biopsychosocial approaches to managing chronic pain in alignment with current pain science and the PMC team messaging.

Health Promotion and Prevention

• Includes health promotion, illness prevention and capacity building in client relationships and responses to health needs.
• Partners with other health care providers to plan and develop health promotion/illness prevention programs based on client needs and evidence-based approaches.
• Advocates for environments that facilitate client learning and participation in meeting their health needs.

Documentation

• Documents all phases of patient care in the EMR and MPCN evaluation systems.
• Participates in quality improvement activities.

Professional Role & Development

• Explains and promotes the NP role to patients, the public, and healthcare professionals.
• Works within regulatory acts, regulations, bylaws, and evolving scope of practice for the NP role.
• Adheres to professional and legal standards and ethical decision-making in diagnosis and treatment, including prescribing medications.
• Identifies and pursues professional development needs.
• Other responsibilities as required.

Qualifications

Education & Licenses

• Graduate from an accredited Nursing Program.
• Master's degree in Nursing required.
• Nurse Practitioner Certificate in the Family/All ages designation.
• Active registration as a Nurse Practitioner with the College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CARNA).
• Current BCLS (Basic Cardiac Life Support for Health Care Providers).

Experience

• Minimum 3 to 5 years' experience in an acute care and high-volume setting required.
• Minimum of 3 to 5 years as a Nurse Practitioner in acute care or community setting with preference for Women's Health and Chronic Disease experience.
• Experience with culturally diverse and vulnerable populations preferred.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Knowledge of professional and legal components of NP practice.
• Strong clinical and technical competencies including advanced physical assessment, diagnostic reasoning, and therapeutic management of disease.
• Ability to adapt practice to client needs and situational context.
• Ability to care for diverse populations with various health, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
• Ability to collaborate with other health care professionals.
• Ability to plan and implement health promotion, maintenance, and disease prevention activities.
• Strong communication, teaching, problem-solving and leadership skills.

Working Conditions

• Evening and weekend hours are required.
• Ability to travel by public transportation or have a valid driver's license with access to a car in good repair is required.

Why Mosaic PCN

We provide a competitive benefits package for eligible employees including comprehensive health and dental coverage, Health Care Spending Account (HCSA) / Taxable Spending Account (TSA), group RRSP matching, professional development opportunities, generous vacation and other paid time off, and more.

Conditions of Employment

Successful applicants must provide proof of qualifications and a current police information check (PIC) at the applicant's expense. The PIC results may alter or revoke any offer.

We thank all applicants for their interest and resumes. Only those candidates chosen to proceed through the selection process will be contacted. No phone calls, please.

If you require accommodation during any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know by emailing

This position is part of the bargaining unit covered by a collective agreement with Health Sciences Association of Alberta (HSAA).