Casual RN (Hillcrest)

The RN will enhance the effective management and quality of nursing practice daily in keeping with the standards and expectations set out by governing bodies and internal policies and standards of care.

Qualifications:

• Current registration with the College of Registered Nurses of Alberta.
• Previous experience in Long Term Care preferred.
• Comprehensive knowledge of nursing and health care practices as well as in the areas of wound management, infection control, least restraint, and zero lift
• Effective human relation skills, enables other through coaching, mentoring, learning through shared experiences.
• Ability to work alone and with others while prioritizing tasks to handle most urgent first.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
• Ability to work effectively within a variety of stressful situations and challenges and with various individuals or groups.
• Strong organizing, planning, prioritizing, time management skills.
• Proven experience in taking personal responsibility for seeking information from various sources.

Responsibilities:

• Must work at all times within the regulation laid out in the Health Professions Act.
• Accountable for assessing, planning, monitoring, and coordinating the delivery of resident care.
• Oversees all ADL provisions of care, Interdisciplinary Team Conference, care plan development and addresses family concerns.
• Plans, directs, and supervises the work of the LPN and Health Care Aide Staff.
• Works collaboratively with the health care team and acts as a champion of customer satisfaction and customer service.
• Assists in orientating, mentoring and competency development of staff.
• Staff replacement in absence of the nursing clerk.
• Take charge of the facility in the absence of management.

Time Type:

Extendicare and affiliated organizations including our partner homes in Extendicare Assist, accommodate the needs of job applicants throughout its recruitment and selection processes upon request.