Registered Nurse – Sexual Assault Care Centre – Casual
About the role
Duties
- Participate and collaborate with other health care providers in provision of patient care.
- Effectively use the Standards of Nursing Practice and the Nursing Process in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the care of the patient.
- Provide health teaching to patients and family.
Qualifications
- Current registration with the College of Nurse of Ontario in good standing.
Experience
- 5 years previous nursing experience.
Skills/Ability
- Understanding of issues of sexual and family violence.
- Demonstrated ability to provide effective crisis intervention.
- Working knowledge of computers.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively in a high paced interdisciplinary team.
- Strong interpersonal skills, tact, and compassion in dealing with adults and children who have been abused and/or assaulted.
- Possess a high level of self esteem and confidence, flexibility and creativity.
- Strong team building, decision making and leadership skills.
- Strong therapeutic patient teaching skills.
- Ability to respond to being paged within an agreed time frame.
- Ability to commit to a minimum of 48 hours per month of on-call.
- Demonstrated ability to maintain successful working relationships; ability to meet and interact with people in a pleasant, professional, responsible and reassuring manner, both in person and on the telephone; tact, courtesy and alertness in public contacts.
- Demonstrated clinical competency in the management of care of patients.
- Behaviour consistent with Hospital Mission, Values and iCcare Way.
- Note: Because of the changing nature of the work and work to be done, other responsibilities and duties may be assigned and qualifications may be adjusted from time to time.
About Sault Area Hospital
Sault Area Hospital (SAH) is a state-of-the-art facility that opened on March 6, 2011. SAH provides primary, secondary and select tertiary services to a total catchment population of approximately 115,000 residents in Sault Ste. Marie and the District of Algoma. In addition to providing core services in Emergency and Critical Care; Medicine; Surgery; Obstetrics, Maternity and Pediatrics; Mental Health and Addictions; Complex Continuing Care; and Rehabilitation, SAH is also home to the Algoma Regional Renal Program and the Algoma District Cancer Program. With the opening of the new integrated, one-site hospital in March 2011 also came the first-ever satellite radiation treatment suite in the province. SAH is extremely proud of our approximately 1850 dedicated staff, 370 physicians (active, supportive and locums) and 500+ volunteers who provide almost 65,000 hours of service each year.
Registered Nurse – Sexual Assault Care Centre – Casual
About the role
Duties
- Participate and collaborate with other health care providers in provision of patient care.
- Effectively use the Standards of Nursing Practice and the Nursing Process in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the care of the patient.
- Provide health teaching to patients and family.
Qualifications
- Current registration with the College of Nurse of Ontario in good standing.
Experience
- 5 years previous nursing experience.
Skills/Ability
- Understanding of issues of sexual and family violence.
- Demonstrated ability to provide effective crisis intervention.
- Working knowledge of computers.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively in a high paced interdisciplinary team.
- Strong interpersonal skills, tact, and compassion in dealing with adults and children who have been abused and/or assaulted.
- Possess a high level of self esteem and confidence, flexibility and creativity.
- Strong team building, decision making and leadership skills.
- Strong therapeutic patient teaching skills.
- Ability to respond to being paged within an agreed time frame.
- Ability to commit to a minimum of 48 hours per month of on-call.
- Demonstrated ability to maintain successful working relationships; ability to meet and interact with people in a pleasant, professional, responsible and reassuring manner, both in person and on the telephone; tact, courtesy and alertness in public contacts.
- Demonstrated clinical competency in the management of care of patients.
- Behaviour consistent with Hospital Mission, Values and iCcare Way.
- Note: Because of the changing nature of the work and work to be done, other responsibilities and duties may be assigned and qualifications may be adjusted from time to time.
About Sault Area Hospital
Sault Area Hospital (SAH) is a state-of-the-art facility that opened on March 6, 2011. SAH provides primary, secondary and select tertiary services to a total catchment population of approximately 115,000 residents in Sault Ste. Marie and the District of Algoma. In addition to providing core services in Emergency and Critical Care; Medicine; Surgery; Obstetrics, Maternity and Pediatrics; Mental Health and Addictions; Complex Continuing Care; and Rehabilitation, SAH is also home to the Algoma Regional Renal Program and the Algoma District Cancer Program. With the opening of the new integrated, one-site hospital in March 2011 also came the first-ever satellite radiation treatment suite in the province. SAH is extremely proud of our approximately 1850 dedicated staff, 370 physicians (active, supportive and locums) and 500+ volunteers who provide almost 65,000 hours of service each year.