Job Description

OVERVIEW

Bring your caring heart to the heart of the east at Michael Garron Hospital


Michael Garron Hospital (MGH) is an award winning community teaching hospital and has been providing care since 1929. We proudly serve more than 400,000 people in 22 distinctneighbourhoods in East Toronto. MGH is recognized as a leader in workplace wellness. We commit to living our values of Compassion, Respect, Integrity, Inclusion and Courage in many ways, including offering a quality work environment focused on learning and development. MGH invests in people to meet their professional goals and to reach their personal best.


We opened our new Ken and Marilyn Thomson Patient Care Centre in early 2023 providing eight floors of modern and bright care spaces and will continue to transform our campus in the coming years.


Our Paediatrics Program provides nurses a unique opportunity to grow their career and leadership experience. Here staff have the opportunity to improve the health of children, from newborn to 18 yearsof age by providing specialized child and family-centred care. We focus on the whole person, to support children and families to cope, develop, grow, thrive and transform, leveraging strengths of the family. This dynamic, community oriented program has a team who are committed to learning and providing excellent patient care. You will work with a diverse interprofessional team that are welcoming and supportive of new staff.


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This is an ideal opportunity for nurses, from novices looking to develop their competencies, to the experts seeking to explore new career paths. At MGH, you will receive comprehensive orientation and education to be equipped to provide safe and high quality patient-centered care. We also offer support through a variety of continuing education and career advancement opportunities.


What to expect:

As a member of the Paediatrics / Maternal Newborn and Child team, you will grow your nursing practice by:

Applying knowledge of nursingscience, process, and clinical judgment in the provision of safe, competent, compassionate, evidence-informed and patient-centered quality care. Sharing knowledge and expertise with others, while advocating for and promoting health and well-being of patients. Caring for your patients as part of a respectful, collaborative interprofessional care team. Working to your full scope of practice while collaborating and consulting with the Registered Nurse and other members of the health care team. Working with the MGH team to advance your nursing competencies through ongoing unit-based and corporate educational and professional development opportunities.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

Work in collaboration with the entire healthcare team to provide optimal, ethical and patient/

family-centered nursing care; demonstrating compassion, responding to relevant ethical

issues on behalf of the patient/family and prioritizing care for multiple patients while still

ensuring each patient needs are met in a timely manner.

Establish and maintain clinical knowledge, skills and attitudes appropriate to their practice,

and in turn contribute to the enhancement of quality careand patient safety, implementing

best practices at all times.

Required to work with each patient to understand the physical, psychological and social

needs, including working closely with family and the patient to understand patient health history.

In addition the RPN will be required to demonstrate effective problem solving and judgment to

address patient problems, including integrating multiple sources of information to inform clinical decision-making, care planning, coordinationand evaluation.

In partnership with the RN work closely with the Interprofessional team in helping the patient

and family with goal setting and development of a plan to meet these goals upto and including

a discharge plan. This includes working with a larger team of professionals to understand a

variety of perspectives and skills and collaborate with others on the core team to provide

optimal care to patients and families.

Required to identify opportunities for advocacy, healthpromotion and disease prevention with

individuals to whom they provide care while using best practice guidelines and current research.

Responsible for playing a role as a team member on all communication and shared decision

making with the patient, caregiver or other core nursing team members is done in a collaborative way to

ensurea strong rapport and well built trust are formulated, striving for mutual understanding and

facilitating a shared plan of care.

Work in collaboration with other units in the hospital to maintain patient flow and timely access to care. Willingness to be cross trained to other units within the MNC portfolio and mental health programs.

EDUCATION

Current registration as a Registered Practical Nurse with the College of Nurses of Ontario and in good standing. Current Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) Certification. PEARS certification required. If you have not completed PEARS, the candidate must be willing to successfully complete PEARS certificate within 3 months of hire. Neonatal Resuscitation (NRP) certification required. If you have not completed NRP, the candidate must be willing to successfully complete NRP certificate within 3 months of hire. Breastfeeding course completion an asset.

QUALIFICATIONS

Paediatric experience, including paediatric consolidation placement and/or any proof of student externship experience, within the last year is required. Blood procurement and IV start experience an asset. Demonstrates knowledge of and willingness to work within a family centered care environment. Demonstrates excellent skills and knowledge of growth and development with an ability to apply knowledge to nursing care. Demonstrated knowledge of pain assessment in relation to the patients' age and clinical presentation. Efficient computer skills, experience with Cerner is an asset. Excellent interpersonal skills/able to relate to children and families with demonstrated organizational ability, problem-solving and decision making skills. Must be willing to work in other areas of the Health Service, MNC and Mental Health Programs (skills and abilities considered). Able to work independently and in a team environment. Evidence of continuing education. Motivated to pursue educational goals, teaching; leadership potential an asset. Commitment to unit-specific education, and other training identified as necessary to practice safely and competently on the unit. Good work and attendance record required. All employees ofMichael Garron Hospital (MGH), a division of Toronto East Health Network (TEHN) [formerly Toronto East General Hospital (TEGH)] agree to work within the legislated practices of the Occupational Health and Safety Act of Ontario. All employees of MGH are responsible to contribute to a transparent culture of patient and staff safety by adhering to and abiding by patient and staff safety policies and procedures set by MGH. All employees are accountable for protecting the psychological health and safety of themselves and their co-workers through adherence to MGH's policies and practices.

Come be a part of the future of healthcare in the heart of the east!