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• Acute Medicine at the Hamilton General Site encompasses 8 West and 8 South which are both Clinical Teaching Units. 8 West provides care to acute adult medical patients as well as alternate level care patients. The interdisciplinary team collaborates to provide high quality care for patients with acute medical diagnoses, such as myocardial infarction, diabetic ketoacidosis, pneumonia, endocarditis and chronic medical diagnoses, such as heart failure, COPD, coronary artery disease throughout the various stages of their illnesses.
• As a member of the healthcare team, the Registered Practical Nurse will provide high quality nursing care to patients in collaboration with the Registered Nurse on the unit. The RPN will participate in continued education and completion and maintenance of certifications associated with the identified nursing skills and complete learning plans to achieve these goals. The RPN will participate and support the quality initiatives on the unit to continually improve practice.

• Current Certificate of Registration from the College of Nurses of Ontario as a Registered Practical Nurse
• Current certificates or current community college studies in asepsis, wound are, airway management, complex wound care, physical assessment, urinary catheterization, administering enteral feeds, medication administration, and transcribing physician orders and working knowledge of telemetry
• Documented completion of IV administration and IV Management, Venipuncture, and Blood and Blood Products Administration
• Current Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certificate
• Recent, relevant nursing experience (within the last 2 years) in acute medicine
• Recent experience working with geriatrics and behavioural population
• Current Gentle Persuasion Approach (within the last 2 years)
• Demonstrated ability to function within an interdisciplinary team and competently work to full scope of practice within a multidisciplinary team
• Demonstrated ability to function in a fast pace complex environment with medically changing acuity
• Ability to communicate (written and verbal) effectively with patients, families, and all other members of the healthcare team
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and problem solve effectively in response to patient care needs
• Demonstrated knowledge of safe patient handling
• Awareness of community resources for complex discharge planning participation