Employment Information
- Post ID: 758552488
- Open Date: October 25, 2024
- Close Date: December 9, 2024
- Organization: Kingston Health Sciences Centre
- Sector: Healthcare & Social Workers
- Business Location:Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- Total Views: 201
- Duration: 0 calendar days (1 business days)
- Last Updated: 3 hours ago
- Job URL: https://newpeople.ca/jobs/ontario/kingston/758552488/rpn-registered-practical-nurse/
Job Details
- Experience: 1 month - 7 months
- Job Vacancies: 10
- Compensation: $33.43 per hour / 37.5 to 48 hours per week
- Anticipated Start Date: : 2025-01-06
- Education: College certificate or diploma from 1 to 2 years
Job Description
Tasks
- Administer medications
- Apply aseptic techniques including sterile dressing
- Conduct specimen collection
- Ensure infection control
- Monitor nutritional intake
- Observe and record medication’s therapeutic and side effects
- Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
- Record medication’s therapeutic and side effects observations in patient files
- Provide pre-operative and post-operative personal and comfort care
- Monitor established respiratory therapy and intravenous therapy
- Provide safety and health education to individuals and their families
- Provide nursing services, within defined scope of practice, to patients based on patient assessment and care planning procedures
- Monitor patients’ progress, evaluate effectiveness of nursing interventions and consult with appropriate members of healthcare team
- Coordinate the movement of patients through the health care system
Experience and specialization
Area of specialization
- Gynecology
- Medical unit
- Orthopedics
- Surgery
- Float
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Eligible for licensure as a practical nurse by the province/territory of work
- Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) Certificate
Benefits
Health benefits
- Dental plan
- Health care plan
- Vision care benefits
Financial benefits
- As per collective agreement
- Group insurance benefits
- Life insurance
- Pension plan
Other benefits
- Subsidised public transportation
- Team building opportunities
- Wellness program