Description:
Reporting to the Clinical Services Manager, you will be responsible to provide patient care and education within your scope of practice in a variety of acute medical, CCC, palliative and surgical patient care areas. You will be provided in advance with a six week working schedule.
Accountabilities:
- Float to units as determined by daily staffing needs, which includes reassignment of units during a shift at all Osler sites
- Maybe required to work temporary unit placements or project work assignments for either the medical or surgical units
Qualifications
- Current registration and in good standing with the College of Nurses of Ontario
- Able to function to the full scope of practice as per CNO
- Current CPR certificates required
- Fluent in English (reading, writing, speaking and comprehension)
- Recent experience within two years of working in acute medicine and/or surgery
- Flexibility, willingness and ability to float to acute medical, palliative, CCC and surgical units as required on a daily basis
- Ability to function as a member of a multi-disciplinary team and has demonstrated teamwork abilities
- Demonstrated excellent interpersonal and organizational skills
- Understanding of the issues related to the various specialties in medical/surgical nursing as they apply to patients, families and the multi-disciplinary team
- Demonstrated ability to work in a highly stressful and fast-paced environment
- Demonstrated commitment to continuing education in acute care medicine/surgery
- Demonstrated critical thinking and problem solving skills
- Demonstrated ability to care for complex medical patients with stable, predictable outcomes
- Specialty clinical experiences an asset
- Excellent attendance, punctuality and work record
- Must demonstrate Osler's Values of Respect, Excellence, Services, Compassion, Innovation and Collaboration
- Will be required to travel between and work at all Osler sites