Registered Nurse - Mental Health Unit 1
- Employer
- Halton Healthcare
- Location
- Oakville, Ontario
- Closing date
- Jan 18, 2025
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- Discipline
- Registered Nurse
- Work Setting
- Hospital / Health Centre
- Area of Practice
- General Nursing, Mental Health / Psychiatric / Addiction care
- Hours
- Full-time
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Job Description
- The RN functions as a valued member of the multidisciplinary team providing assessment and evidence-based nursing care for patients with acute mental health needs.
- Solid knowledge and skill includes the ability to perform thorough mental status examination, to utilize developmentally appropriate approaches, to implement and evaluate of various therapeutic interventions, to provide mental health teaching to patients and families, based on principles of adult education, to provide one to one and group therapeutic interventions.
- Essential to the role is a strong knowledge of all pertinent mental health legislation and the application of it in order to advocate effectively for patients living with mental health disorders.
- The nurse uses Case Management principles of planning and carrying out care consistently over the duration of a patient´s admission, allowing for a deeper and more informed therapeutic partnership. Belief in recovery and instilling hope are our critical values.
- Using a Primary Nursing Model, the successful candidate will function as a member of the multidisciplinary team on our adult in-patient mental health unit. The nurse will be skilled in dealing with acutely ill and high risk psychiatric populations including suicidal individuals, those with severe depressive or psychotic illnesses and personality and behaviour disorders.
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