Nurse B - Clinician

Position #: 177429

Expected Start Date: February 09, 2025

Union: SUN

Facility: Royal University Hospital

City/Town: Saskatoon

Department: Cardioscience 6000

Type: Full-time regular

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: No

Job Description: The Nurse Clinician (NC) is an expert clinical nurse who integrates experience, advanced level skills and knowledge from nursing theory and principles of adult learning in the provision of direct client/patient/resident care, assessment of needs, clinical coordination and problem solving, client/patient/resident and staff education and participation in research for a defined group of clients/patients/families. The NC position requires skill in collaborative consultation with the Manager of Nursing, multidisciplinary healthcare team members and cardiologists to provide seamless coordination of clinical planning, therapeutic activities and client/patient/resident interventions for patients in the Heart Health Value Stream. This may include participating in policy and procedure development, performing quality improvement and participating in the education of nursing staff across the Heart Health portfolio

Human Resources Exemption: No

Experience

• Five (5) years nursing experience in the specific clinical area

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN)

Licenses

• Certified in Cardiovascular Nursing Canada (CCN(C))
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support Certificate (ACLS)
• Basic Life Support Certificate (BLS)
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Certificate (CPR)
• Basic Cardiac Life Support Level C Certificate (BCLS)

Other Education and Training

• Nursing diploma is acceptable

Competencies

• Basic - Capability to transform systems: Champion and orchestrate change
• Basic - Critical thinking skills
• Basic - Assessment skills
• Basic - Leadership skills
• Basic - Analytical skills
• Basic - Teaching skills
• Basic - Interpersonal skills
• Basic - Computer skills
• Advanced - Communication skills
• Basic - Decision making skills
• Basic - Conflict resolution skills

Knowledge and Abilities

• Knowledge in communication techniques and approaches
• Ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
• Knowledge in leadership strategies
• Knowledge in research processes and program evaluation
• Knowledge of current trends/issues/best practice strategies
• Knowledge in applicable trends, impacts and perspectives
• Knowledge in policy and procedure development and quality assurance initiatives
• Knowledge in role of specific clinical area within health system

Other Information

• 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/