Nurse B - Clinician

Position #: 149507

Expected Start Date: October 28, 2024

Union: SUN

Facility: Royal University Hospital

City/Town: Saskatoon

Department: CDM COPD Specialty Services

Type: Full-time temporary

Expected Up to Date: August 31, 2025

FTE: 1

Shift Information: Days

Hours of Work: 14 shifts of 8 hours per 3 weeks

Relief: No

Float: No

Field Hours: No

Salary or Pay Band: Pay Band Nurse B $42.040 to $52.440

Travel Required: Yes

Job Description: Reporting to the manager of the COPD program, the nurse clinician: has primary clinical responsibility for the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) provincial program. Utilizes established criteria to assess and plan each client's self-management care needs, providing appropriate intervention to ensure timely access to care. Assesses client needs/concerns through chart review, history taking, physical assessments, and lab data and in consultation with physicians and multidisciplinary team members. Liaises with multidisciplinary team members, hospital departments, and community agencies to advocate for continuity and coordination of care. Provides efficient and effective self-management education/counselling for clients/families/caregivers in all aspects of copd management, care and treatment. Provides continuing health professional education through communication, resource materials, presentations and in-service education. Assists in the development, monitoring and evaluation of programs, protocols, guidelines and clinical standards of practice, in collaboration with the manager, physicians and multidisciplinary team members. Participates in program administration and supports research, program development, planning, quality monitoring and evaluation. Inputs and maintains a demographic and clinical web based database for the COPD program. The nurse clinician will provide care within a holistic and culturally appropriate framework for the population served with an understanding of the health equity and the impact of poverty and risk conditions on health.

Human Resources Exemption: No

Experience

• 5 years of clinical experience related to patients with COPD required. A minimum of 1 year experience in patient/family/professional
  education is required. A minimum of 1 year experience in program/resource development related to needs assessment planning,
  program design, implementation and evaluation, teaching/counseling, facilitation skills and leading group activities is required. -
  Experience in teaching staff and patients in one to one and group settings

Education

• Bachelor Degree/Diploma in Nursing

License

•    Basic Life Support (BLS)
  • Must possess a valid Saskatchewan driver's license and have access to a reliable vehicle
  • Registered or eligible for registration with the College of Registered Nurses of Saskatchewan (CRNS)

Other Education and Training

• Nursing diploma is acceptable
• Basic Life Support Certificate (BLS)

Competencies

• Ability to competently use computers and software applications as required by the position
  • Ability to travel both within the region and provincially
  • Advanced communication skills
  • Advanced counseling skills
  • Advanced decision making skills
  • Advanced facilitation skills
  • Advanced interpersonal skills
  • Advanced leadership skills
  • Advanced mediation skills
  • Advanced organizational skills
• Advanced problem solving skills
  • Advanced time management skills
  • Case management skills
  Demonstrated experience & ability to deliver programs within a holistic and culturally appropriate framework for the
  population served
  •
  Knowledge & understanding of health needs of individuals & families living with COPD & chronic conditions, and of health
  equity and impact of poverty and risk conditions on health
  •
  • Willingness to provide patient care in a variety of settings within health system & patient homes

Knowledge and Abilities

• Knowledge in health needs of individuals living with COPD and chronic conditions

Other Information

• Travel required
• Registered/eligible with the College of Registered Nurses of Saskatchewan (CRNS)
• For more information on the city of Saskatoon please visit https://www.saskatoon.ca/