Your Opportunity:A full-time Post Partum Nurse Practitioner (NP) is being sought to add to our multidisciplinary team of care providers at the Peter Lougheed Centre. Reporting to Executive Director of Women\'s Health, the NP functions as part of a multidisciplinary team working closely with obstetrical care providers and low-risk obstetrics/family medicine designates to provide patients with day-to-day care, planning, and interventions. The NP role may also include duties within other Women\'s Health programs and services. The NP is an advanced practice nurse (APN) who integrates clinical skills associated with nursing and medicine to assess, diagnose, order, and interpret diagnostic tests, prescribe treatment, and perform procedures to manage and meet the health needs of patients. With graduate level education, NPs contribute to collaborative inter-professional care through the advanced practice nursing competencies of advanced clinical practice, education, nursing leadership, and research. NPs have a broad and autonomous scope of practice with the ability to provide a full range of comprehensive health services to individuals across their lifespan. NPs are accountable to practice in accordance with their legislated scope, CARNA regulatory documents, and Alberta Health Services (AHS) governance documents as well as within their individual competency (CARNA, 2017). The NP may have specialized competencies. Per regulatory requirements, the NP is required to assess their practice to support individual competency and professional growth.Description:As a Nurse Practitioner (NP), you will provide a full range of comprehensive health services to individuals across their lifespan. You will be responsible for integrating clinical skills associated with nursing and medicine to assess, diagnose, order, and interpret diagnostic tests, prescribe treatment, and perform procedures to manage and meet the health needs of patients. Additionally, you will utilize advanced practice nursing competencies related to Clinical Practice, Leadership and Optimizing Health Systems, Education, and Research to increase care quality, promote appropriate use of health services, and inform and influence healthcare systems. PLEASE NOTE: This position is unionized and represented by the Alberta Union of Nurse Practitioners (AUNP). For more information on this union, please contact AUNP: https://www.aunp.ca/
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