Description
SUMMARY OF THE POSITION
Person who assumes responsibility for a range of nursing care activities based on the bio-psycho-social needs of assigned users or groups of people. She/he assesses users' state of health, determines and ensures the implementation of nursing care and treatment plans for users with complex health problems and/or various bio-psycho-social dimensions. She/he provides nursing and medical care and treatment to maintain health, restore health and prevent disease. She/he can prescribe laboratory analyzes, treatments, products, medication and dressings in the fields of wound care, public health and routine care according to the regulations in force.
She/he designs, applies and evaluates care programs requiring advanced knowledge, aimed at complex health problems and/or involving various bio-psycho-social dimensions. She/he participates in the development or adaptation of clinical and quality-of-care assessment tools, coordinates teamwork and plays an advisory role with colleagues and the interdisciplinary team.
- Contribute to the ongoing effort to maintain access to respiratory virus vaccination and screening;
- Ensure that access to STBBI screening and treatment can be maintained;
- Being an active member of an interdisciplinary team;
- Support and strengthen families to promote the optimal health and development in all age groups;
SPECIFIC FONCTIONS
Screening and treatment:
* Provide access to various infectious diseases screening and testing (STBBI, respiratory viruses and MADO), do the counseling, interpret result, conduct contact tracing and investigation and offer appropriate treatment and recommendation* Contribute to the implementation and the use of specific screening devices such as ID now, GenXpert and ionic nebuliser.* Contribute to the deployment and implementation of populational screening strategies related to infectious diseases.* Support the CMC current services in:
o Managing and monitoring cases of contagious tuberculosis
o Managing and monitoring people in close contact with these cases* Support the follow-up of MADO and deliver the treatment to the social network of the index case, in collaboration with region 17.
Vaccination:? * Coordinate and support local team into continuous access to respiratory viruses vaccination* Provide spontaneous support to immunisation programmes: vaccination of workers, influenza campaign, school vaccination and others.* Provide support for post exposure immunisation against rabies* Update files and SI-PMI.
Outbreak management and Emergency response: * Collaborate with local team and community-based partners to lead outbreak management response or play any role requested by regional Public Health team to response to a public health treat, known or emerging.
Outreach and partnership: * Contribute to develop and maintain partnership with community-based entities. * Participate and organize workshops and activities about various health topics. * Collaborate with partners, provide and conduct at least 2 outreach outings weekly where services are provided to the community outside the CMC walls. * Focus on building trust relationships with youth and provide them with support, solutions, resources and promote participation to traditional and land-based programming.* Support and strengthen families to promote the optimal health and development in all age groups.
Other:? * Peut fournir un soutien pour les tests sanguins après approbation de l'équipe de gestion ;* Excellentes aptitudes à la communication dans un contexte d'enseignement ;* Capacité à travailler au sein d'une équipe de travail multiculturelle et interdisciplinaire ;* Respect de la culture et des traditions cries ;* Excellente capacité à maintenir des relations interpersonnelles positives ; * Poste situé dans la communauté de Whapmagoostui, avec la possibilité d'être relocalisé sur le territoire d'Eeyou Istchee selon les besoins de l'organisation ;* Tout le personnel du dé
REQUIREMENTS
Education:
- Member in good standing of the O.I.I.Q;
- Must have Bachelor of Science in Nursing or an undergraduate degree consisting of three (3) admissible certificates, of which two (2) are accredited certificates in Nursing;
- INSPQ training "The STI screening intervention - the nurse's contribution" is (training may be done after the start of the assignment) (an asset);
- Training of the Protocole d'immunisation du Québec PIQ;
- Be familiar with the Tuberculosis Professional Practice Guide
Must have relevant clinical experience in public health.
Experience:Two (2) years of experience as a nurse;
- Must have relevant clinical experience in public health;
- Experience with a First Nation clientele (an asset);
- Must have experience in outreach and providing care outside of a clinical setting;
- Experience in a remote area.
LANGUAGE* Fluent in English and in French;* Fluency in Cree is an asset.
