Registered Nurse - Ambulatory Care 2024

Join us in building a world of possibility! Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital is Canada's largest pediatric rehabilitation hospital, and a top 40 Canadian research hospital. Serving over 8,500 families annually in both inpatient and outpatient programs and services, Holland Bloorview is renowned for its expertise in partnering with clients and families to provide exceptional care and is the only organization to ever achieve 100 per cent in three successive quality surveys by Accreditation Canada.

Holland Bloorview's vision is to support the most meaningful and healthy futures for all children, youth and families. We are an academic hospital, fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. All clinical staff are expected to contribute to the academic agenda through one or more of the following activities: supervising students, teaching, academic service, scholarship and research.

Holland Bloorview has won numerous awards including Greater Toronto's Top Employers, Canada's Top Employers for Young People and Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures. We offer an inspiring, inclusive, innovative, and collaborative work environment with competitive compensation and benefit packages and programs that support ongoing learning and professional growth.

The Ambulatory Care Nurse's (ACN) skill set is grounded in rehabilitative principles of assessing, managing and evaluating complex health conditions in collaboration with the interprofessional team and client/family. They partner with the client and family,to establish plans of care to obtain optimal health and wellbeing, utilizing a strength-based approach.

The Ambulatory Care Nurse has unique competencies required to help clients and families navigate an ever-changing complex health system. They are also required to provide complex procedural care, support clients/families in decision-making, and provide client education and coordination of services.

They have knowledge and experience working with children with spina bifida, spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy and other neuromotor/developmental disorders and their families.

They participate in educational activities, program committees, quality improvement projects or other operational support projects as assigned. Provide nursing services to clients and families based on standards of practice set out by the College of Nurses of Ontario. The Ambulatory Care Nurse (ACN) provides leadership and promotes excellence in pediatric family centred care within an interprofessional, academic and collaborative practice environment.

The ACN is registered with College of Nurses of Ontario and works to full scope of practice within the current legislative framework. The RN demonstrates the competencies to work across various ambulatory care settings as required.

This is a single shared-department Registered Nurse position. The successful candidate will maintain a 0.6 FTE with the Spina Bifida/Spinal Cord Injury team and a 0.4 FTE with the Neuromotor team.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Practice

• Specializes in care of pediatric and adolescent/young adults with physical and developmental disabilities
• Uses evidence-based practice to plan, implement and evaluate nursing care for clients with cerebral palsy and other neuromotor/developmental disorders and their families.
• Provides nursing care utilizing a strengths-based approach that promotes and supports the physical, psychosocial, and spiritual well-being of clients and families
• Continuously assess the outcome of care provided and assess and manage conditions and symptoms related to their neuromotor condition
• Practices culturally competent care
• Works in partnership with client / family and interprofessional team to facilitate appropriate, timely and effective transition planning
• Advocates for clients / families with goal of effective outcomes and appropriate use of resources
• Supports and respects the client / family's rights to make decisions based on their own values, beliefs and experiences

Collaboration

• Collaborates with members of the Interprofessional team and community health care providers to ensure an optimum and integrated approach to care
• Collaborates with client / family and interprofessional team to identify client-centred goals
• Demonstrates excellent communication skills
• Practices based on identified standards of care within an interprofessional environment
• Ability to transfer knowledge and ambulatory care competencies to other clinic areas
• Develops and maintains partnerships with community providers
• Interacts with members of the interdisciplinary care team and community providers as appropriate, to ensure an integrated approach to care

Leadership

• Provide leadership at a program, community or regional/national level for initiatives focused on improving the quality of care for children with neuromotor disorders.
• Participates in quality improvement initiatives, supports the maintenance of a safe and healthy work environment and advances a culture of client safety through work and daily practice
• Demonstrates commitment to patient safety by speaking up about safety issues, changing nursing practices to enhance safety. Shares errors through system reporting mechanisms, and shared accountability for safe practices
• Manages change in an inquisitive and client centered manner
• Seeks opportunities for professional growth
• Supports and respects the client/family's rights to make decisions based on their own values, beliefs and experiences

Research/Education

• Demonstrates and utilizes the teaching / learning process to provide education, both formal and informal to clients / families, colleagues, students and other professionals within a fully affiliated academic healthcare environment
• Guide the professional growth of others across the continuum of care through role modeling, coaching and/or mentoring. Provide evidence-based, clinically competent nursing care in a culturally sensitive manner. (i.e. nursing preceptor of students)
• Demonstrates a spirit of inquiry by examining current practice and identifying questions for study
• Utilizes nursing best practice guidelines and evidence to deliver care
• Participates in nursing research where applicable and utilizes outcome measurements

Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor of Science Nurse of Bachelor of Nursing

Experience:

• Minimum of one year of nursing experience in a pediatric environment
• Previous job-related experience, preferably in working with clients with physical disabilities
• Experience, knowledge or interest in a rehabilitation setting and/or ambulatory care nursing role.
• Experience in bowel and bladder management and training preferred
• Previous experience working with clients on advanced care planning

Licensure and/or Certification:

• Current certificate of competence by the College of Nurses of Ontario
• Current BCLS certificate—Basic Rescuer
• Specialty Certification in Nursing preferred