Registered Practical Nurse (RPN) Cognitive Support Unit (A6)

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

In collaboration with RN provides sound clinical knowledge and skills, acts as clinical expert and resource and provides comprehensive, quality client/family centred health care services from admission, through transfers and discharge

Plans for, delivers and evaluates nursing interventions, including medications, as well as treatments which fall within the RPN’s scope of practice

Provides client-centered care within interdisciplinary care team to meet the personal care, activation, recreation and spiritual needs of clients

Qualifications include but are not limited to:

Current registration, in good standing, from the College of Nurses of Ontario (‘CNO’) is required

Current Basic Cardiac Life Support (‘BCLS’) certificate, Level C - Automated External Device (‘AED’) is required

Experience in Long-Term Care with clients in day programs or residents in a Long-Term Care and Community Setting preferred

Certificate in Dementia Care preferred

Training in Gentle Persuasive Approach and U-First preferred

Psychogeriatric experience, i.e. mental health assessment and intervention and working with responsive behaviours including various types of dementia, delirium, mental health issues preferred

Excellent interpersonal, communication and problem solving skills

Basic computer skills – Meditech, MDS/RAI, Point Click Care, Microsoft Word and Excel preferred

Posting #: 6943

APPLICATION INFORMATION:  Please submit your application online through the Baycrest intranet. Failure to include your resume may affect your candidacy for this position. All communication related to this job posting will be sent to the email address used to submit your application.

Remarkable people of Baycrest Health Sciences
are changing the future of brain health and aging.

Thank you for your interest in joining Baycrest. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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All successful candidates will be required to complete a police reference check/vulnerable sector screen and submit proof of two doses of vaccination against COVID-19, unless exempt. Such exemptions will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

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