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Job Description

Step into a job that opens countless doors. As Ontario’s most comprehensive healthcare system, providing advanced care to people of all ages from across the province, we offer endless opportunities. You can explore advancement opportunities, take professional development courses, and stretch yourself as a leader, all at HHS. We are the largest employer in the greater Hamilton region, and play a vital role in training the next generation of health professionals in collaboration with our academic partners, including McMaster University and Mohawk College. Hamilton Health Sciences is a hospital system of 18,000 staff, physicians, researchers and volunteers that proudly serves south central Ontario residents. We also provide specialized, advanced care to people from across the province.

McMaster Children’s Hospital, located in Hamilton’s west-end, is the second largest children’s hospital in Canada. We are home to the fastest-growing kids-only emergency department in Ontario, one of Canada’s most advanced neonatal intensive care units, and a range of programs and clinics with unique expertise in a number of areas including children’s cancer, digestive diseases, and mental health.

The Child and Youth Acute Care Program consists in part of the Pediatric Emergency Department, Pediatric Ambulatory Clinics, and the Pediatric Inpatient Units.

Position Summary

The Nurse Practitioner (NP) for the General Pediatrics – Complex Care Service at McMaster Children’s Hospital is dually accountable to the Director of the Child and Youth Acute Care Program and the Chief of Interprofessional Practice. The NP will function with the five domains of the role identified by the Canadian Nurses Association’s APN Framework; clinical practice, research, leadership, consultation and collaboration with education.

The NP will provide leadership and promote excellence in pediatric family centered nursing care through expert clinical practice, education, consultation and research. The NP supports the clinical activity of the General Pediatrician – Complex Care and the associated patient care and interventions through the Ambulatory service including off site affiliated satellite clinics in LHIN 3 & 4. This would include the areas of the pediatric emergency department, inpatients and the outpatient clinics.

Collaborating with the interdisciplinary team members, and using a patient and family centered model of care, the NP is responsible for providing direct patient care to their full scope of practice, coordination of care, discharge planning, and the coordination of related community and other resources for this patient population; mentor nursing and other health professional students as appropriate, and participate in continuing education activities to integrate the role of the NP in the program and academic settings. The NP will also initiate, participate, and/or lead programs, presentations, publications, evaluations, research initiatives and other system changes to continue the enhancement of Interprofessional care teams. The NP will work in partnership with the complex care team, consultants, nursing and other members of the health care team to provide comprehensive medical assessment, management and education.

Schedule Work Hours

Monday to Friday; days. Evenings and weekends as required

This position is temporary until September 2024.

Qualifications

• Current Certificate of Registration in the College of Nurses of Ontario as a Registered Nurse in the Extended Class RN(EC)
• Master’s of Nursing Degree or Equivalent
• Completion of Post-Master’s of Nursing – Nurse Practitioner program with a focus in Pediatrics
• Minimum of five (5) years’ recent acute/primary clinical experience in pediatrics
• Current Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification
• Membership in the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) and other professional organizations relevant to the role
• Certification in Paediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) and/or relevant certificates recommended
• Proficiency in performing history and examination of the infant, toddler, child and adolescent
• Knowledge and assessment of developmental milestones at all stages of pediatric development and ability to access appropriate community or hospital-based resources in setting of developmental delays
• Ability to counsel and educate parents and children in ambulatory, inpatient, home and community environments
• Ability to handle significant daily psychological and emotional stress in dealing with parents of critically or chronically ill children
• Experience in the development and maintenance of medical directives
• Demonstrated ability for independent action, initiative, problem solving, organization and prioritization
• Demonstrated leadership, critical thinking, interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Demonstrated ability to work in a consultative role with the members of the Interprofessional team
• Demonstrated ability to be flexible and adapt positively to constantly changing clinical situations
• Knowledge and experience in change theory and pediatric learning principles
• Demonstrated ability to utilize information technology
• Commitment to continuous professional development to acquire new knowledge and maintain competency
• Eligible for cross appointment with McMaster University School of Nursing at the undergraduate and graduate level

As a condition of employment, you are required to submit proof of full COVID-19 vaccination to Employee Health Services.

Salary

$55.07 - $70.60 hourly

Skills Required

• Adaptability