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Position:  Registered Practical Nurse Status:  1 FTE, ONA (one year contract, possible extension dependent on funding) Date:  February, 2024

SUMMARY

The Essex County Nurse Practitioner – Led Clinic (ECNPLC) provides primary health care services to the residents of the Towns of Essex and Amherstburg and surrounding communities. Outreach services are also provided to the residents of Drouillard Rd. (Ford City) in the city of Windsor.   We are currently expanding our services to the Town of Kingsville.

ROLE

The Registered Practical Nurse (RPN) assists in the delivery of primary care services, community outreach, and education, promoting healthy lifestyle choices for the residents of the community.

The practice of nursing is the promotion of health and the assessment of, the provision of, care for, and the treatment of, health conditions by supportive, preventative, therapeutic, palliative and rehabilitative means in order to attain or maintain optimal function.

There are areas of overlap between RN and RPN roles, but there are differences as well. These differences are based on entry-level and ongoing nursing knowledge and competencies. The

autonomy of the RPN is influenced by the complexity of the patient’s condition and environment. As client complexity increases, there is a corresponding increase in the need for the RPN to consult

with an NP and work collaboratively with the healthcare team. 

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Professional Practice:

• Adheres to the code of Ethics and CNO standards of nursing practice.
• Practices within the established scope of practice.
• Acts as mentor and preceptor for new RPN and RPN nursing students.
• Upholds standards and reports concerns about unsafe, incompetent or unethical behaviour of care.
• Participates in quality improvement projects and assists with analysis of these projects

2. Scope of Practice:

• Provide care as per CNO guidelines
• Being accountable at all times for her/his own decisions and actions.
• Based on the Client Continuum the RPN must be involved in providing care to less complex, more predictable, low-risk negative outcomes (autonomous RPN practice).
• Based on the Environment Continuum, the RPN must be involved in providing care in a more stable environment.
• Consults with another nurse when a situation demands nursing expertise that is beyond their competence.
• Performs clinical tasks by participating in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care under the supervision of a Nurse Practitioner and practices within set organizational directives.
• Carries out nursing procedures and other delegated medical tasks as ordered.
• Providing routine care, observing clients’ health, assisting providers and communicating with clients and their families.
• Develops a plan of intervention with clients.
• Counsels clients on the health promotion strategies that promote mobility, medication use and abuse, skin care, diet, exercise, and smoking cessation.
• Ensures that the Clinic is maintained by ordering medical supplies, maintaining inventory, ensuring that equipment is in good repair, and sterilizing and autoclaving as needed. Ensure resources and materials are maintained.
• Assists with relevant administrative tasks.
• Provides triage to clients, both on the phone and as walk-ins.
• Performs work in the lab, as required.
• Provide outreach to patients as needed.
• Ensures appropriate, comprehensive treatment is delivered by maintaining complete and accurate medical records, participating in chart reviews and discussion of problem cases, answering client inquiries and directing them to the appropriate treatment. Contribute to case conferences and make referrals.
• Participates in the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of treatment, education, screening programs, workshops, counseling and health promotion programs and services for individuals, families and the community by identifying health needs of clients and various other community groups.

3. Continuing Competence and Development of Expertise:

Maintain and continually enhance their knowledge and skills related to all aspects of their nursing practice and ensure that their practice is evidence-based.

4. Nurse-Client Therapeutic Relationship:

• Use a wide range of effective communication strategies and interpersonal skills to appropriately establish, maintain, re-establish and terminate the nurse-client relationship (e.g., introducing self, addressing the client by the name that the client prefers, providing information to promote client choice and enable him/her to make informed decisions, etc.)
• Ensure that all professional behaviours and actions meet the therapeutic needs of the patients (e.g., always include the client as a partner in care, demonstrating sensitivity and respect for the client’s choices, being available for the client for the duration of assignment, etc.)
• Establish and maintain the limits or boundaries in the therapeutic nurse-client relationship.
• Protect the clients from harm and ensure that abuse is prevented or stopped and reported.

ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work as a member of the team and participate in staff development opportunities.
• Participate in staff, team, Board and committee meetings, and other Clinic activities as required.
• Respects and values the diversity of the community and individuals
• Contributes to the Clinic’s work by participating in activities that seek to strengthen collaborative and interdisciplinary teamwork, such as inter-component committees and working groups and strategic planning.
• Contributes to the clinic’s orienting and training of employees
• Participates actively in team meetings
• Participates in the development of policies and procedures by providing feedback and input.
• Works in a manner that incorporates health promotion and recognizes the determinants of health
• Participates in team and individual professional development opportunities

Interested candidates can forward their cover letter and resume to Laura Levesque, ED, at l.levesque@ecnplc.com