
- Employer
- FlexCare Health Staffing
- Location
- Scarborough
- Salary
- $29/hour
- Starts
- Closes
- Discipline
- Registered Practical Nurse
- Work Setting
- Long Term Care / Nursing Home
- Location
- Ontario
- Hours
- Contract
We are currently searching for RPN's for a long term care facility located in Scarborough.
Key responsibilities:
- To complete and ensure resident's clinical care assessments, care/service plans and documentation are accurate, up to date and changes communicated as required;
- To implement and evaluate the effectiveness of the care/service plans and make changes as required
- To provide direct resident care and medication/ treatment administration and document care in compliance with regulatory standards and policies and procedures;
- To process the orders and safe keep drugs and narcotics and administer in
- compliance with all regulatory requirements, scope of practice and policies and
- procedures
- To coordinate nursing team's resident care assignments to ensure efficient and timely
- delivery of services to residents;
- To respond to and manage significant changes in resident's condition and or medical emergencies; provide emergency first aid;
Qualifications:
- Current registration as a Registered Practical Nurse in applicable Province/State;
- Experience working in a senior's environment and with unregulated care providers preferred;
- Education and experience in gerontology, rehabilitation, community/complex/long term care an asset;
- Must possess strong written and oral communication, critical thinking, care coordination, time management and customer focus
Skills required:
- Must have demonstrated sound clinical knowledge
- Current Basic Cardiac Life
- Support and First Aid certification required;
- Computer proficiency and experience with Microsoft office applications. -
- Current (within 6 months) Vulnerable Position/Sector Screening (VPS).
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