Nurse Practitioner

Assisted Living Alberta is dedicated to Enhancing Care in the Community, helping people be healthy, well and independent in their homes and communities. Edmonton Zone Continuing Care provides services through five main program areas: Home Living, Supportive Living, Facility Living, Transition Services and Palliative Care. The Palliative and End-of-Life Care (PEOL) Program is recruiting an energetic and adaptable Nurse Practitioner (NP) who can manage a specialty clinical workload autonomously. The ideal candidate would be a motivated, self-starting, and proactive individual, committed to lifelong learning and excellent service delivery in the PEOL program. Are you someone who is passionate about PEOL, who has a drive to continually grow and achieve team and system- oriented goals? This is an NP role on the Urban Palliative Home Care team. You will work alongside nurse Case Managers and an interdisciplinary team of clinicians to provide advanced clinical practice through timely and accessible assessments, interventions, and management plans in alignment with clients’ goals of care designation and community resources; build staff capacity through coaching, education, and mentorship, both formal and informal; promote and support the implementation of evidence-based care and pathways to manage palliative and end-of-life clients supported by the UPHC program; and support timely Type C/hospice assessments when appropriate. You will function in both the Most Responsible Healthcare Practitioner and Most Responsible Practitioner models of care delivery based on individual client needs and program capacity. You will work in an office setting as well as travel within established geographical networks of care in the Edmonton Zone. Your day-to-day work changes based on the location of the clients.

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/

Successful completion of an approved Nurse Practitioner program, with a minimum of a Master's degree. Active registration with the College of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CRNA) on the Nurse Practitioner Registrar, including Provisional Graduate Nurse Practitioner licensure. Current Basic Cardiac Life Support - Health Care Provider (BCLS-HCP).

Consistent, proven, & demonstrated experience with managing and working on multiple competing priorities, requiring fast action & at times re-prioritization. Works well under pressure. Works to the CRNA full scope of advanced clinical practice: accesses & utilizes resources available & integrates them into scope related clinical expertise to make informed decisions about patient medical care in alignment with patients’ GCD, individual preferences & wishes. In alignment with evidence-informed practice: provide advanced health assessments & diagnosis, order labs & diagnostic tests, prescribe pharmacotherapy; provide treatment, treatment plans, & advanced interventions, monitor patient outcomes, & consult &/or refer to specialty services. Communication (written, verbal, non-verbal): highly skilled & effective to write accurate, clear, concise, timely, & relevant medical consult notes; to communicate with a large scope of system collaborators & with patients and their caregivers during times of distress and urgency. 5 years of recent (within the last six months) NP experience in one or more practice settings. Evidence of expertise in your graduate degree, NP stream. Ability to travel throughout the AHS Edmonton Zone year-round.

CNA Certification in National Nursing Specialty (i.e., Gerontological, Critical Care, Nursing, Hospice, Palliative Care Nursing, etc.). Connect Care experience. Palliative and end-of-life care experience.