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Company Name: Embassy West Senior Living
Job Position: Registered Practical Nurse (3 Vacancies)
Wage Rate: 25.46/hour
Hours per Week: 40 hours
Location: Ottawa, ON K1Z 7L8
Type of Employment: Permanent Employment, Full-time
Employment Date: As soon as possible
Education Required: Completion of a university, college or other approved registered nursing program is required. Current Certificate of Competence, College of Nurses of Ontario (to be verified at hire and submitted annually)
Experience Required: 1 to less than 7 months of experience
Skills Required:
- Retirement Home and/or Long-term Care experience
- Certificate in Administration of Medications (if not included in the RPN course)
- Effective interpersonal skills and strong organizational ability
- Leadership potential
- Able to fulfil the physical demands of the position
- Annual OCRA and WHIMIS certification
Job Duties:
- 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
- Take vital signs
- Provide technical assistance to surgeons by laying out instruments, setting up equipment, assisting surgical teams with gowns and gloves and passing instruments to surgeons
- Clean and sterilize the operating room and instruments
- 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
We are Equal Opportunity Employer that recruit and hire qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.